This man paid $145,000 in rent for an apartment he didn't live in just to freeze time and catch his wife's killer.

In 1999, Satoru Takaba's wife, Namiko, had her life taken in their apartment.

The police had no solid leads, and the case went cold.

Usually, families move out and try to forget. But Satoru refused.

He believed that one day, technology would catch up to the killer.

So, he kept the lease.

For 26 years, he paid the rent every single month on that empty, silent apartment.

He kept the bloodstains on the floor. He kept the footprints. He turned the room into a time capsule, waiting for science to improve.

And in late 2025, his investment finally paid off.

Police returned to the apartment and used modern DNA technology to analyze the preserved bloodstains that had been sitting there for two decades.

They found a match.

The DNA belong to Kumiko Yasufuku, Satoru’s own high school classmate.

It turns out, she had held a grudge for decades because Satoru had rejected her romantic advances back in school.

He simply wasn’t prepared to see how much his once tiny grandchild had grown😭❤️

Must protect her at all cost!!

While filming Dynasties in Antarctica, the BBC nature crew faced a heartbreaking scene — a group of emperor penguins and their chicks were stuck in a deep, icy ravine after a massive storm and couldn’t climb out. Normally documentary makers never interfere and only observe, but here they made an exception. They dug a shallow ramp in the ice to give the penguins a chance to escape and return to their colony. Even Sir David Attenborough supported the choice, saying it was a rare but justified intervention.

Credit: BBC’s Dynasties (2018), narrated by David Attenborough.

was out running errands and she texted me; simply was asking what kind of butter and sour bc team…this is the entire conversation