Japanese police mentioned they’ve arrested a lady and her dad and mom in a weird beheading case in a well-liked evening leisure distrit in Japan’s northern metropolis of Sapporo, the place a headless man was present in a lodge room three weeks in the past
ByMARI YAMAGUCHI Related Press
Runa Tamura, who was arrested in reference to the case {that a} headless man was discovered, is transferred from a police station in Sapporo, northern Japan Monday, July 24, 2023. Japanese police mentioned they’ve arrested the girl and her father in a weird beheading case in a well-liked evening leisure district in Japan’s northern metropolis of Sapporo, the place the headless man was present in a lodge room three weeks in the past. (Kyodo Information by way of AP)
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TOKYO — Japanese police mentioned they’ve arrested a lady and her dad and mom in a weird beheading case in a well-liked evening leisure district in Japan’s northern metropolis of Sapporo, the place a headless man was present in a lodge room three weeks in the past.
Hokkaido police on Japan’s northern predominant island mentioned 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 lodge room and relocating his severed head in the midst of the evening between July 1 and July 2.
The pinnacle of the sufferer, Hitoshi Ura, 62, has been lacking since then.
Police raided the suspects’ residence 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 conserving the pinnacle at residence.
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 doable psychological affected person. Media experiences quoted neighbors as saying that she has had problem 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 lodge within the Susukino space identified for short-stay “love accommodations.” About three hours later solely one in every of them was seen leaving, carrying a big suitcase.
The individual accompanying the sufferer was carrying light-colored ladies’s closing and a wide-brimmed hat when getting into the lodge, however was wearing black when leaving, Kyodo mentioned, quoting unnamed investigative sources.
Ura’s physique was found afterward July 2 by a lodge employee who went to verify 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 line with information experiences. None of his belongings had been left within the room and the mattress was seen unused.