She was sitting in her usual seat, on her usual train ride, back to her apartment after a long day of teaching. Tuesday, March 20th, was like any other normal day for Lindsay Hawker. Tatsuya approached Lindsay on her normal train going back home from the school. The school and the company she worked for, The Nova Organization, would file for bankruptcy 6 months after her murder. Lindsay would be dead 5 months after her arrival. She left for Japan in October 2006 after accepting a position at the Koiwa School in Tokyo. LindsayвЂ™s father had his concerns, but she reassured him by saying that Japan is the вЂњsafest place in the world after New Zealand.вЂќ Her degree was biology, an eerie similarity to her future killerвЂ™s educational background of botany.ДЄs a top graduate, Lindsay was on track for her MasterвЂ™s degree, but first wanted to travel, as most 22-year-old girls would. Lindsay Hawker graduated from the prestigious Leeds University in 2006. вЂњA lovely girlвЂќ, one neighbor in her home county of Warwickshire told reporters after hearing the horrid news of LindsayвЂ™s murder.Perhaps it was this gift of connecting that Lindsay that helped the 22-year-old decide that she wanted to teach English for a short stint in Japan. She was a very popular student and the school and staff are devastated.вЂќ One of LindsayвЂ™s highschool teachers at King Henry VIIIвЂ™s School in Coventry said about her, вЂњI knew Lindsay well. вЂњFrom tramps and university professors alikeвЂќ, Bill would say. English teacher Lindsay Hawker was brutally murdered by Tatsuya Ichihashi after pretending to need a language lesson.ДЄccording to LindsayвЂ™s father, Bill Hawker, her daughter was so approachable that she could talk to anyone, even someone completely random, and create an instant and lasting connection.

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