Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde, and 21 years old - stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl, involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, Australian dowsers and Lucie's desperate, but bitterly divided, parents. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, has followed the case since Lucie's disappearance. Here, he reveals the astonishing truth about Lucie and her fate.