Update: Missing Auburn Student Found Dead In Kyoto
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🗓️ 7 June 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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The 20-year-old Auburn student who was last seen walking towards hiking trails in Japan, was found dead on Saturday in a mountainous area outside of Kyoto. The parents of Weston Higginbotham made the tragic announcement after asking for the public’s help in finding their son. The family said Weston took off on his own, after a disagreement during the family trip to Japan to celebrate his younger brother’s high school graduation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Sunday, June 7th, and an awful update to bring you on a developing story. |
| 0:12.0 | We've been keeping an eye on the past week. |
| 0:14.4 | A missing Auburn University student gone missing in Japan on a trip with his family has been found dead in Kyoto. |
| 0:24.9 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Rose, this didn't look good from the very beginning. |
| 0:32.1 | But I have to remember, this kid's been missing since May 29th on what was supposed to be a celebratory trip. |
| 0:38.9 | Yes, they were celebrating his younger brother who had just graduated from high school. |
| 0:44.0 | So yeah, they were going on this big planned family trip to Japan. |
| 0:49.1 | And this is not how any of them anticipated this ending. |
| 0:53.1 | And we felt the urgency from his family who had said |
| 0:57.3 | they felt like he might have been in emotional distress. And he had just stayed behind while they |
| 1:05.0 | went off to go tour, I believe, a local monastery. And that's when they saw his life 360 moving. And they realized he was |
| 1:14.3 | headed somewhere that they didn't know. And so you've seen the name probably folks in a few headlines. |
| 1:21.5 | Weston Higginbotham, 20 years old. This is a kid who attended the university of, I say University of, but Auburn University, I say University of, because anytime I think about a school in the state of Alabama, like they say, when you're born there, you have to make the first decision of your life. |
| 1:39.4 | Is it going to be Auburn or is it going to be Alabama? |
| 1:42.7 | So University of Alabama and Auburn University is in my head, |
| 1:46.1 | but Auburn University student 20 years old, biosystems engineering major. And also of note, |
| 1:51.9 | he is an accomplished hiker. But he has been, the mom put out a statement. And the family has |
| 1:59.5 | been giving almost daily updates, but they have put out a statement |
| 2:03.1 | we're going to let you hear here in just a moment robs the difficult part of this and we don't know |
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