00:00In 2014, a young Japanese woman named Narumi Kurosaki was on top of the world.
00:06Bright, gentle, and full of dreams, she had just started university, with one big goal,
00:12to study in France. Her family wasn't wealthy, but her determination was unbreakable.
00:18She worked hard, saved every penny, and finally she won a scholarship.
00:22It felt like the beginning of her real life. But before she could pack her bags for France,
00:27she had to pass a French language course at her university in Japan. This is where she met him,
00:33Nicholas Zepeda, a charming teaching assistant from Chile. He was a few years older, fluent in
00:40the language she so desperately wanted to master, and he seemed kind. He offered to help her study,
00:46and soon, their tutoring sessions turned into something more. Narumi with her trusting heart
00:52fell for him. Their friendship blossomed into a romance. But for Narumi, this relationship had
00:58a deadline. She knew she was leaving for France, and she didn't want a long-distance relationship
01:04to hold either of them back. Before she left, she gently broke it off with Nicholas. She told him,
01:12I'm going to France. I think it's best if we move on. She thought he understood. She thought he would
01:20let her go. She was wrong. Nicholas couldn't accept it. His affection had twisted into a dangerous
01:27obsession. In August 2016, Narumi arrived in Besançon, a picturesque city in eastern France. She settled
01:35into her student dormitory, made new friends, and even found love again with a new boyfriend.
01:41For a few months, her dream life was finally a reality. She was happy, free, and building a
01:48future for herself. But in the background, a storm was brewing. Nicholas began flooding her phone with
01:55messages. Not just a few, but thousands. Texts pleading, begging, demanding her attention.
02:03Please answer me. I love you. I can't live without you. Every single day, a new wave of messages
02:10would arrive. Narumi tried to ignore them, hoping he would eventually give up. But he never did.
02:17The digital harassment was relentless. Then, one day, a message arrived that sent a chill down her
02:23spine. It was from Nicholas. I'm coming to France. I just want to see you, one last time.
02:31Narumi hesitated. Every instinct probably told her to say no, to block him, to keep her distance.
02:38But her kindness, the very quality that made her so loved, became her vulnerability. She felt guilty.
02:46Maybe seeing him one last time would give him the closure he needed. So, she agreed.
02:59Narumi met him at the train station. She greeted him with a smile and a hug, trying to keep things
03:05friendly. They spent the day together, visiting a museum, having dinner, and walking through the
03:11snowy streets. To any outsider, they looked like two old friends catching up after a long time apart.
03:18As the night grew colder, Narumi made a fateful decision. Her dorm had a strict no-guest policy,
03:25but it was late, and she didn't want to cause a scene by sending him out into the cold.
03:30She let him stay the night, assuming he would be gone by morning. It was the last night anyone ever
03:35saw Narumi Kurosaki alive. Later that night, students in the dormitory heard disturbing sounds
03:42coming from Narumi's room. They described them as muffled cries, loud thuds, and sounds of a
03:48struggle. But no one called for help. They dismissed it as a couple having a loud argument,
03:54something not entirely uncommon in a student residence. They went back to sleep, unaware of
04:00the horror unfolding just a few doors down. The next morning, Narumi was gone. She didn't show up for
04:07class. She didn't answer her phone. Her new boyfriend grew frantic with worry. Her friends
04:13knocked on her door, but there was only silence. It was as if she had vanished into thin air.
04:19Meanwhile, Nicholas Zepeda calmly walked out of the dormitory alone, took a bus to the airport,
04:24and boarded a flight to Spain, eventually making his way back to his home country of Chile.
04:29Initially, no one suspected a thing. When police first searched Narumi's room, it looked clean.
04:35There were no obvious signs of a struggle. No blood. No forced entry. For days, her disappearance
04:42was a complete mystery. It was then until one of her friends mentioned the ex-boyfriend from Chile,
04:48the one who had just visited, that investigators started to connect the dots. They pulled the CCTV
04:55footage from the university. Their hearts sank. The cameras captured Narumi and Nicholas walking into
05:01the building together on the night of December 4th. But the next morning, only Nicholas was seen
05:07leaving. Narumi never walked out. A more detailed forensic search of the building revealed something
05:14chilling. Near an emergency exit, investigators found traces of blood that had been meticulously
05:19cleaned. DNA tests confirmed the blood belonged to Narumi. The investigation then turned to the car
05:26Nicholas had rented during his short trip. Inside, police found a canister of flammable liquid,
05:32matches, and chemical residue. GPS data from the car showed he had driven to a dense forest on the
05:37outskirts of the city, the night Narumi disappeared. Massive searches were conducted in that forest.
05:43But her body was never found. By this time, Nicholas was safe in Chile, thousands of miles away.
05:50French authorities sent an urgent request for his extradition, but the process stalled.
05:54Chile was reluctant to hand over one of its own citizens without a body or a confession.
06:00The case became an international saga, making headlines around the world. For years, Narumi's
06:06family waited in agony, with no answers and no justice. Under immense public and diplomatic pressure,
06:13Nicholas eventually gave a statement to Chilean police. He maintained his innocence. He admitted to
06:20seeing Narumi, having dinner with her, and staying in her room. But he claimed he left while she was
06:26alive and well and that he had nothing to do with her disappearance. But French investigators had
06:31uncovered one more crucial piece of evidence. A former classmate of Nicola came forward with a
06:37strange story. Right after Narumi went missing, Nicholas had asked him to translate three bizarre sentences
06:44into Japanese. I am somewhere without internet. I have a new boyfriend, but I want to be alone.
06:52And I'm going on a trip by myself. These were the exact same messages that had been sent from
06:57Narumi's phone to her friends and family in the days after she vanished. Messages designed to make it look
07:03like she had left on her own. It was the final damning piece of the puzzle. Finally, in 2020,
07:09after a four-year legal and diplomatic battle, Chile agreed to extradite Nicolas Zepeda to France to
07:15stand trial for murder. In the courtroom, despite the absence of a body, the prosecution laid out the
07:21mountain of evidence against him. His obsessive behavior, the lies about his whereabouts, the
07:28cleaned bloodstains, the strange car rental, the trip to the forest, and the fake messages sent to cover
07:34his tracks. Nicolas Zepeda was found guilty and sentenced to 28 years in prison. To this day,
07:41he denies everything. And to this day, Narumi Kurosaki's body has never been found,
07:46leaving her family without a final resting place for their beloved daughter.
07:50He crossed continents claiming it was for love. But in the end, he only proved how far obsession can go,
07:57and the devastating cost of a heart that trusted too easily.
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