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Missing US Student Found Dead In Japan
A family’s desperate search overseas has ended in heartbreak.
James "Weston" Higginbotham, a 20-year-old Auburn University student from Hoover, Alabama, was found dead in a mountainous area outside Kyoto, Japan, multiple reports said Saturday, June 6.
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His body was found by a volunteer search-and-rescue group, his mother, Nancy Higginbotham, said on social media.
A cause of death had not been released. Kyoto police had not found evidence suggesting foul play in…
