Arrest Made in 1981 LA Murder

The LAPD is holding a Japanese businessman on suspicion of murder in the Los Angeles shooting death of his wife more than a quarter century ago, the AP reports. In the 1981 incident Kazuyoshi Miura was shot in the leg and his wife in the head; she later died. Miura blamed robbers and bemoaned the violence of American cities, stoking Japanese fears of visiting the US.

Miura came under suspicion when his alleged lover said he had hired her to kill his wife. A Japanese court found Miura guilty of murder in 1994, but overturned the sentence four years later. Miura, 60, believed the case was closed—until Friday, when he was arrested on the US-held Pacific island Saipan.  (More murder stories.)