ohh soo sad! Missing Japanese student is found dead in abandoned Canadian mansion

The mansion were she was found picture below.

Vancouver police have confirmed one man has been charged after the body of missing Japanese student Natsumi Kogawa, 30, was found at a mansion in the city's West End.

Kogawa's body was discovered at an historic downtown building known as the Gabriola Mansion.

William Victor Schneider, 48, was arrested in Vernon, British Colombia. and remains in custody.

Friends reported her disappearance on September 12, some five days after she went missing.

A Facebook group was launched to spread the word and to try and generate a timeline of her last known movements.
People even went to places in downtown Vancouver where Kogawa would spend her time and handed out missing posters to strangers in the hope of jogging their memories.

Her image appeared on screens at subway stations, and it was shared widely on social media.

Surveillance pictures and video footage were also widely distributed which shows Schneider with Kogaw hours before her disappearance.

In the images, the student can be seen speaking and gesturing to the man with a backpack.

Kogawa was an experienced traveler. She had come to Canada to study English, and had plans to switch her tourist visa to a working holiday visa.

Schneider had been previously charged with a number of crimes including armed robbery, theft, possession of a controlled substance, breach of probation, breaking and entering and assault with a weapon.

An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

The 17,000-square-foot Gabriola mansion was built by the Rogers family in 1901. It has been empty since the Macaroni Grill restaurant closed in the mid-2000s.

Erik Lauzon, who lives across the street from mansion said there have been no problems at the house although a few squatters sometimes congregate in the back alley, 'but never on the grounds.'

'This doesn't change anything for me,' Lauzon said to the Vancouver Sun when asked if he now looks at his neighborhood a little differently. 'It's an isolated incident.'

RCMP Sergeant Annie Linteau knows there are a lot of questions here still, but this is still an ongoing investigation.

'Our priority is to conduct a thorough investigation and we're not prepared to jeopardize that. All that I can say is that he was arrested by the Norther Okanagan RCMP.'

'It is a very dark time for me right now and the words I am writing right now cannot possibly convey my sadness,' wrote Jay Vergara, a friend who had spearheaded the social media campaign to spread word of Kogawa's disappearance.

'My greatest hope right now is that the person who did this to Natsumi will be swiftly and severely brought to justice.'