The man suspected of abducting a female teenager who recently escaped two years of captivity might have collected information on her beforehand because he called her by her full name when they first met, police said Tuesday.
The teenager, now 15, fled her captor's apartment in Tokyo's Nakano Ward on Sunday and was rescued by the police.
She told the police that the suspect, 23-year-old Kabu Terauchi, called her by her full name when she was returning home from school in Asaka, Saitama Prefecture, on March 10, 2014, and did not know Terauchi at that time.