040 | The Last Walk of Masumi Watanabe

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Beneath the Palms: Hawaii's Darkest True Crime & Mysteries

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🔍 Beneath the Palms: Hawaii's Darkest True Crime & Mysteries Podcast Beneath the Palms dives deep into Hawaii’s most chilling true crime stories, unsolved mysteries, and shocking disappearances. From notorious criminals to eerie cold cases, this podcast exposes the dark side of paradise—where crime, secrets, and tragedy lurk beneath the beauty. Hosted anonymously, we uncover Hawaii’s hidden crimes, long-forgotten cases, and the investigations that shaped the islands’ criminal history. 🎧 New episodes every Thursday. Because even in paradise, shadows remain.

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040 | The Last Walk of Masumi Watanabe

Beneath the Palms: Hawaii's Darkest True Crime & Mysteries

22 minutes

1 month ago

040 | The Last Walk of Masumi Watanabe

April 12, 2007. On a quiet road in Pupukea, twenty-one-year-old Masumi Watanabe — shy, gentle, and far from her home on Sado Island, Japan — was last seen alive. Neighbors heard her cry out, a single word: “No.”

By nightfall, she was missing.

What followed was an island-wide search, the discovery of her glasses and blood in a pest control truck, a midnight witness at Kahana Bay, and a trial that would expose impossible lies. A jury found Kirk Matthew Lankford guilty of second-degree murder, and the Hawaii Paroling Authority set a record 150-year minimum.

Yet Masumi has never been found. Her parents still return to Hawaii, pleading for one thing: to bring their daughter home.

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Sources for this episode include:Hawaii News NowThe Honolulu Star-BulletinThe Honolulu AdvertiserThe Charley ProjectfindMasumi.orgHawaii court records

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Special mahalo to Yoza for her song Obsession — a piece that carries the ache and weight of Masumi’s story.

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