That was the fate for retired millionaire Hamago Kitayama who was murdered in April 1999 in one of the Gold Coast’s most infamous and lurid crimes. Flashback to April 1999 — The Kosovo war was raging, ...

It was 25 years ago this month that Coast detectives began searching for missing millionaire businessman Hamago Kitayama. The 62-year-old had last been seen on April 16, 1999 when his wife told police ...

Mr Kitayama, 62, had been missing for six weeks on April 16 when his wife Akiko Kitayama told police she had last seen him catching a taxi to Gold Coast Airport. Kitayama claimed her husband was ...

Brisbane, Australia - A Japanese woman was sentenced to life imprisonment here on Friday for dismembering her retired gangster husband and leaving his remains for the garbage men to collect. Akiko ...

A retired Japanese crime boss who previously led a violent Yakuza clan was murdered by his wife and his body dumped at a Gold Coast tip. It was 20 years ago this week that Coast detectives began ...

IMAGINE being a crime lord one of Japan’s most violent Yakuza clans for more than 30 years only to be killed by your wife, dismembered and remains put out with the garbage. That was the fate for ...

It was alleged Akiko went on a spending spree outlaying $80,000 in a week at restaurants and bars and on a Rolex watch and a car for a Japanese male friend. Mr Kitayama’s body was never found, despite ...

From the wife of a retired Japanese crime boss to the cousin of a pop singer, these notorious Queensland killers have one secret in common. Former veteran police detective turned Bond University ...