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Kirk
Matthew LANKFORD |
May 1. 2007 - Kirk Lankford made his first appearance in District
Court yesterday.
He is charged with
the murder of Japanese citizen Masumi Watanabe, who was
last seen
April 12 near Pupukea.
May 1, 2007 - Don Wilkerson, attorney for Kirk Lankford, right,
says his client maintains
his innocence
in the presumed murder of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe, as
police continue to investigate
her disappearance.
Kirk M. Lankford
Kirk M. Lankford, left, sits with his attorney, Don Wilkerson,
during his trial at Circuit Court.
Kirk M. Lankford
North Shore resident and businessman Stephen Paty demonstrates
the gestures he saw that were
made by Watanabe to someone in a work truck as he passed them on
Pupukea Road on the day
of her disappearance. He was the first witness for the prosecution
in Lankford's trial.
March 8, 2008 - Prosecution witness John Thoma is shown a photo
by Honolulu prosecutor Peter
Carlisle during the murder trial of Kirk Lankford.
(Richard Ambo | The Honolulu Advertiser)
HPD evidence specialist Hugh Okubo holds up the interior driver
side door panel of the truck Kirk
Lankford allegedly drove in the murder of Masumi Watanabe during
trial at Circuit Court.
March 14, 2008 - From left, Honolulu City Prosecutor Peter
Carlisle, court stenographer
Amy Sadiarin,
Circuit Court Judge Karl Sakamoto, defense lawyer Donald Wilkerson
and
defendant Kirk Lankford
stop along Pupukea Road on O'ahu's North Shore during a tour
conducted today during Lankford's criminal trial.
(Gregory Yamamoto | The Honolulu Advertiser)
April 15, 2008 - Kirk Lankford, shown next to his lawyer, lowered
his head yesterday
as the guilty verdict was announced.
(Gregory Yamamoto | The Honolulu Advertiser)
August 1, 2008 - Fumiko Watanabe, left, mother of murder victim
Masumi Watanabe, teared up
as she read a statement directed at Kirk Matthew Lankford (far right)
just before he was
sentenced yesterday afternoon in Honolulu Circuit Court. Lankford
received the maximum
sentence for second-degree murder: life with the possibility of
parole.
August 1, 2008 - Kirk Matthew Lankford, right, covered his face
as he cried yesterday afternoon
while his father, Howard Lankford, pleaded to the Circuit Court
judge before his son's sentence
was handed down for the murder of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe.
Kirk Lankford wipes away tears as his father tells Circuit Judge
Karl Sakamoto that his
son is a good man.
Despite being sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of
parole for the murder last year of
21-year-old Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe,
Lankford yesterday
maintained he did not
kill Watanabe.
The victim
The remains of Japanese visitor Masumi Watanabe, who was last
seen alive
April 12, 2007,
have yet to be found.
   
Masumi Watanabe
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