On realizing that the young victim was much more interesting than he'd assumed: "Once I got to know some of her friends, I realized how wrong I'd been. I talked to these friends, and every one of them described a person who was slightly different and sometimes significantly different.
"I realized that at the age of 20, life is very complicated and people have very complicated personalities, and you do present different facets to the world."
–Richard Lloyd Parry, author of "People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo – and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up."
(Check out the full interview here.)
