Kazuyoshi Miura saga

Japanese Consul Masaru Dekiba talks to Japanese media outside Parker Center today after authorities announced Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, accused of conspiring to have his wife murdered 27 years ago in Los Angeles, hanged himself with a piece of his shirt in his jail cell Friday night.  (Bob Chamberlin / Los Angeles Times)

In this 1981 photo, Kazuyoshi Miura is shown after he was allegedly shot and mugged. His wife died in the shooting, and Miura was hit in the leg. Miura said the two were attacked by street thugs, but prosecutors accused him of masterminding his wife’s death in a bid to collect insurance money.  (File photo / Los Angeles Times)

A 1985 photo taken after Kazuyoshi Miura’s arrest in Japan for the murder of his wife. He was convicted of murder in Japan, but the verdict was thrown out four years later and Miura was acquitted.  (File photo / Associated Press)

Miura and his wife, Kazumi, on their wedding day.  (File photo / Los Angeles Times)