TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police stated they arrested a girl and her dad and mom in a beheading case in a preferred night time leisure district in Japan’s northern metropolis of Sapporo, the place a headless man was present in a resort room three weeks in the past.
Hokkaido police on Japan’s northern most important island stated Tuesday they arrested Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, a 59-year-old psychiatrist, the day earlier than on suspicion of conspiring in beheading the sufferer at a resort room and relocating his severed head in the midst of the night time between July 1 and July 2.
The pinnacle of the sufferer, Hitoshi Ura, 62, has been lacking since then.
Police raided the suspects’ house Tuesday and arrested the prime suspect’s mom Hiroko Tamura, a 60-year-old parttime employee, on suspicion of conspiring together with her household in transporting and holding the pinnacle at house.
Police didn’t say precisely how the daughter and the daddy collaborated. Police are nonetheless investigating the motive and refused to say if the girl and the sufferer knew one another.
Police additionally famous that Runa is a potential psychological affected person. Media studies quoted neighbors as saying that she has had issue attending college and had been reclusive since childhood.
Kyodo Information and different media reported the sufferer and one other particular person believed to be Runa Tamura checked into the resort within the Susukino space recognized for short-stay “love motels.” About three hours later solely considered one of them was seen leaving, carrying a big suitcase.
The particular person accompanying the sufferer was sporting light-colored ladies’s clothes and a wide-brimmed hat when coming into the resort, however was wearing black when leaving, Kyodo stated, quoting unnamed investigative sources.
Ura’s physique was found in a while July 2 by a resort employee who went to examine on the room as a result of nobody had checked out from it by the afternoon. The employee discovered the sufferer slumped in a bath, in keeping with information studies. None of his belongings had been left within the room and the mattress appeared unused.