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Farrar, Straus and Giroux18 West 18th Street, New York 10011Copyright © 2011, 2012 by Richard Lloyd Parry All rights reserved Printed in the United States of AmericaOriginally published in 2011, in slightly different form, by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as
People Who Eat Darkness: Te Fate of Lucie Blackman
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and GirouxFirst American edition, 2012 All materials from the notebooks, schoolbooks, and journals of Lucie Blackman are reproduced by kind permission of the Estate of Lucie Blackman.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataParry, Richard Lloyd.People who eat darkness : the true story of a young woman who vanished fromthe streets of Tokyo—and the evil that swallowed her up / Richard Lloyd Parry. — 1st American ed.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references.ISBN 978-0-374-23059-3 (alk. paper)1. Blackman, Lucie Jane, 1978–2000. 2. Obara, Joji—Trials, litigation,etc. 3. Murder—Investigation—Japan—Tokyo. 4. Young women—Crimesagainst—Japan—Tokyo. I. Title.HV6535.J33 T664 2012364.152'3092—dc232011047019Designed by Abby Kagan www.fsgbooks.com 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Even later, when she found it diffi cult to see any good in herhusband, Lucie’s mother, Jane, always acknowledged that imBlackman had saved their daughter’s life.Lucie had been twenty-one months old at the time, caredfor by her father and mother in the cottage they rented in asmall village in Sussex. Since infancy, she had been stricken with fierce bouts of tonsillitis, which drove up her tempera-ture and swelled her throat. Her parents sponged her with water to cool her down, but the fevers lingered, and when onehad passed another would seize hold within a few weeks. Oneday, im had come home early from work to help Jane care forthe needy child. Tat night, he was awakened by a cry fromhis wife, who had gone in to look at her.By the time he entered the nursery, Jane was already run-ning downstairs.“Lucie was motionless at the bottom of the cot, and she was clammy,” im said. “I picked her out and put her on thefloor, and she was turning gray in front of me, just the mostsickly, blacky-gray color. Quite clearly the lifeblood wasn’tbeing pumped round her body. I didn’t know what to do. I wascuddling her on the floor, and Jane had run down to phone anambulance. Lucie was completely quiet, wasn’t breathing. Itried to force open her mouth. It was tightly shut, but I forcedit open with two hands and held it open with the thumb of 
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