The parents of murder victim Masumi Watanabe yesterday said they don't believe killer Kirk Lankford's account of the crime and pleaded with him to tell them where he buried the 21-year-old...

The Hawaii Paroling Authority this afternoon said it would announce within 30 days the minimum sentence murderer Kirk Lankford will have to serve before he is eligible for parole...

Convicted killer Kirk Lankford apologized to the family of his victim yesterday at a parole hearing at Halawa prison but maintained that he did not murder Masumi Watanabe....

The parents of murder victim Masumi Watanabe yesterday sued her convicted killer, Kirk Lankford, and his former employer, Hauoli Termite and Pest Control...

Kirk Lankford, convicted of the April 2007 murder of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe, must spend at least 150 years behind bars for the killing...

The Hawai'i Paroling Authority threw away the key to Kirk Lankford's cell door yesterday, deciding that the 24-year-old murderer must serve at least 150 years behind bars before he can be considered for parole...

Calling him a predator and a danger to the community, a state judge sentenced Kirk Matthew Lankford this morning to the mandatory life prison term with the possibility for parole for the murder of missing Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe...

Convicted murderer Kirk M. Lankford asked for leniency during a parole board hearing yesterday, saying the death of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe was a result of a series of accidents...

Fumiko Watanabe was overcome with tears of joy after she received word that the man convicted of murder in her daughter's disappearance must serve 150 years before he is eligible for parole...

Just two weeks ago, members of the United Japanese Society had dinner with Watanabe's parents. The meeting inspired several good samaritans to launch www.findmasumi.org. The hope is the site may bring in information that could lead police to her body...

Masumi Watanabe's parents are making a public plea in Hawaii Tuesday. For the first time, they are speaking out about their daughter's disappearance more than 7 months ago on Oahu's North Shore...

The trial of a man accused of murdering a Japanese visitor is underway. Masumi Watanabe's body has never been found, but in court Monday the city's top prosecutor presented strong circumstantial evidence he said links Kirk Lankford to the crime...

On Wednesday, both sides focused on a pair of glasses found in Lankford's work truck. Prosecutors said they belonged to Masumi...

Fighting murder charges, Kirk Lankford faced his former boss in court and a co-worker who says the day Masumi Watanabe disappeared, Lankford returned his work truck with it's windshield shattered. Lankford's story that he hit a bird didn't seem right...

A witness described his last face to face meeting with Kirk Lankford, in the pitch black at Kahana Bay, the night Masumi Watanabe disappeared...

A Honolulu jury saw video of a man buying a shovel, plastic bags, and gloves the same day a Japanese visitor disappeared from the North Shore...

Kirk Lankford has stayed quiet so far in his trial for murder, but today the jury got to hear his words as he was interviewed about the disappearance of Masumi Watanabe...

Prosecutors say blood found in Kirk Lankford's truck is definitely from Masumi Watanabe...

"This is allowing them to see what they've heard about in the courtroom and piece it together geographically in the actual area in the neighborhood where it occurred," said City Prosecutor Peter Carlisle.

Defense attorney Donald Wilkerson said Kirk Lankford accidentally struck Masumi Watanabe with his work truck last April as she walked along Pupukea Road...

The attorney for accused murder Kirk Lankford tried Thursday to bolster the defense's claim that Lankford did not kill Masumi Watanabe but that she died as the result of an accident...

"The state was allowed to bring out people to show them points we thought were significant in the case and had been discussed in the courtroom. This was the defense opportunity to do the same thing," said city prosecutor Peter Carlisle...

With his family looking on accused murderer Kirk Lankford told the court how last April 12th he hit Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe with his work truck on Pupukea Road. He called it an accident...

With his family watching murder suspect Kirk Lankford told the jury how he triple-bagged Masumi Watanabe's body and looked for a place to dump it...

Kirk Lankford showed the jury how he used heavy duty trash bags he bought from Home Depot to bag Masumi Watanabe's body. ..

Kirk Lankford admits sideswiping Masumi Watanabe with his work truck last April in Pupukea. He said she suffered only scratches on her hands. Accident reconstructionist expert said that's unlikely.

"This is not a complicated case," city prosecutor Peter Carlise said. In his closing argument, Carlisle said Masumi Watanabe's death was no accident. He called Lankford a cold, cunning killer...

A jury reached a decision in the murder trial of Kirk Lankford after a day and a half of deliberations. The guilty verdict came a little more than a year after 21-year-old Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe disappeared...

It's been a troubling year for the Potter's House Christian Church where Kirk Lankford was a member. "The whole case is very sad, having said that, I was very glad for the verdict," said Pastor of the leadership for Potter's House...

A jury found Kirk Lankford guilty. Now prosecutors want to make sure he will never be set free...

It's the highest profile murder case so far this year. On Monday, a jury convicted former pest exterminator Kirk Lankford of killing Masumi Watanabe. City prosecutor Peter Carlisle tells us about evidence that was not allowed in the jury phase...

The 21-year-old's parents thanked everyone in Hawaii for their support since Masumi disappeared last year...

On Monday, convicted murderer Kirk Lankford will face a jury again. This time for sentencing in the murder of Masumi Watanabe, and this time Lankford's wife is expected to take the stand to talk about accusations against her husband...

The parents of the victim, Masumi Watanabe, flew in from Japan to face Kirk Lankford at Halawa Correctional Facility. They collected petitions from more than 34,000 people in Japan and Hawaii calling for a lengthy minimum sentence for the murder...

Convicted killer Kirk Lankford will be back in court. He is serving a life sentence and now Watanabe's parents have filed a civil lawsuit against him for an unspecified amount...

The Hawaii Paroling Authority has sentenced Kirk Lankford to 150 years for the 2007 murder of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe...

Kirk Lankford has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe...

Even though Kirk Lankford's trial is over, one man's search for Masumi Watanabe's body continues. The creator of the findmasumi.org website says Monday's guilty verdict is just the first step...

The father of murdered Japanese tourist Masumi Watanabe says he wants the killer to tell him where her body is...

Honolulu prosecutors want Kirk Lankford to spend the rest of his life in prison. But the man convicted of murdering Japanese tourist Masumi Watanabe avoided the state's harshest sentence of life without the possibility of parole Monday...

An Oahu judge formally sentences a Kalihi man to life in prison...

Describing him as a dangerous sociopath, Honolulu's chief prosecutor on Tuesday asked the parole board to set Kirk Lankford's minimum prison sentence at 120 years...

One hundred fifty years in prison. That's how long the man convicted of murdering Japanese tourist Masumi Watanabe must serve before he's eligible for parole...

Police and firefighters spent much of today in Pupukea on Oahu's north shore, seeking a missing woman from Japan. Masumi Watanabe has been living here with family friends, but missing since Thursday morning. And she is described as almost painfully shy.

Volunteers have launched findmasumi.org to give community members the chance to share what they know...

The murder trial for a Honolulu man opened on Monday...

The parents of Masumi Watanabe thought sending their daughter to Hawaii would be a good idea. They felt it would help her grow up...

A witness who says he saw Kirk Lankford at Kahana Bay around midnight the day Masumi Watanabe went missing took the stand Friday...

Prosecutors say murder suspect Kirk Lankford made two shopping trips the day Masumi Watanabe went missing...

A Honolulu Police Department D.N.A. specialist said blood samples found in Lankford's work truck had the same D.N.A. pattern as Masumi Watanabe...

Prosecutors tried to make areas on a map real for the jurors in this trial. So, they took a field trip to Oahu's north shore...

The man accused of murdering Masumi Watanabe admits he hit the Japanese national with his truck, but says he did not kill her...

For the second time in the past three weeks the jury in the Kirk Lankford murder trial travelled to Oahu's north shore...

Accused murderer Kirk Lankford took the stand in his own defense today. He admits he hit Masumi Watanabe with his work truck nearly one year ago, but he says he didn't kill her...

A crash witness expert contradicted Lankford's statements in circuit court on Friday...

Before a packed courtroom, Prosecuting attorney Peter Carlisle recapped the jury on the facts of the trial . And put into question Kirk Lankford's testimony...that he didn't kill Masumi Watanabe...

Hundreds of people, even those who didn't know Masumi Watanabe personally, came to pay their respects to her and her family...

Lankford faces a sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole, but under the state’s new extended sentencing law the jury could decide to lock Lankford up for good...

One of the pastors of the church that Kirk Lankford attended says he's not surprised by the verdict -- in fact he feels justice prevailed...

Masumi Watanabe's father spoke to reporters this afternoon by phone from Japan. The Watanabes were on a flight back home when Kirk Lankford was found guilty of murdering their daughter. ..

The parents of murder victim Masumi Watanabe arrived at the Halawa Correctional Facility and presented the Hawaii Paroling Authority with 35,000 letters, the majority of them from Japan, expressing outrage toward convicted murderer Kirk Lankford...

Convicted murderer Kirk Lankford will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The man convicted of killing Japanese national Masumi Watanabe, two years ago, will spend a minimum of 150 years in jail before he is eligible for parole...

It's a case that grabbed international attention. Now, the man convicted of murdering Japanese tourist Masumi Watanabe on Oahu's North Shore two years ago is hoping for mercy from the Hawaii parole board...

Prosecutors asked the Hawaii Paroling Authority Board on March 3 to keep Kirk Lankford behind bars for 120 years; the board gave him 150 years...

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米ハワイ州オアフ島で２００７年、ホームステイしていた渡辺真澄さん（当時２１歳）が殺害された事件で、新潟県佐渡市に住む父親の渡辺秀一さんと母親の文子さんは９日、第２級殺人罪で仮釈放付きの終身禁固を言い渡されたカーク・ランクフォード被告（２４）を相手取り。。。

米ハワイ州オアフ島で２００７年、ホームステイしていた渡辺真澄さん（当時２１歳）が殺害された事件で、同州の仮釈放審査委員会は１７日、第２級殺人罪で有罪評決を受けたカーク・ランクフォード被告（２４）の服役期間を最低１５０年に決めたと発表した。。。

アメリカ・ハワイ州のオアフ島で、２００７年４月、ホームステイしていた日本人女性が殺害された事件で、有罪評決を受けた男の服役期間が、最低１５０年となることがわかりました。。。

０７年に米ハワイ州オアフ島で新潟県佐渡市、渡辺真澄さん（当時２１歳）を殺害したとして、仮釈放の可能な終身刑が言い渡され ていたカーク・ランクフォード被告（２４）に対し、州仮釈放審査委員会は１７日、服役期間を最低１５０年と決めた。。。

アメリカ・ハワイ州のオアフ島で、２００７年４月、ホームステイしていた日本人女性が殺害された事件で、有罪評決を受けた男の服役期間が、最低１５０年となることがわかりました。。。

佐渡市出身の渡辺真澄さん（当時２１歳）が米ハワイ州オアフ島で殺害された事件で、同州の仮釈放審査委員会が第２級殺人罪で有罪評決を受けたカーク・ランクフォード被告（２４）の服役期間を最低１５０年と決めた。。。