Japanese Police Found 9 Bodies, 2 Severed Heads In Flat.
Police have arrested 27-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi who reportedly confessed to slicing the flesh off the bodies and throwing it in the trash, then sprinkling cat litter over the remains in an effort to cover up the evidence.
Police have found at least nine mutilated bodies dumped in containers with their heads cut off and flesh stripped in a suburban Tokyo flat, media reported Tuesday.
According to local media, Shiraishi told police he had chopped up the bodies in a bathroom, while a saw was found in his room.
The suspect reportedly told investigators he had “dumped cut flesh and organs in the trash.”
Police and journalists swarmed around the nondescript apartment in the quiet residential neighborhood of Zama, as locals struggled to comprehend how an act of such violence could have occurred so near them.
He used a saw to dismember the bodies or something. He must be abnormal to have done such things,” said neighbor Hideaki Hosogaya, 83.
When police visited the apartment, they originally found two heads inside a cool box at the entrance before making the grisly discovery of the other body parts, according to Jiji Press.
For the time being, police arrested Shiraishi on a charge that he dismembered one body and placed it in a cooler, a charge that he was not contesting, according to a spokesman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
“He has said ‘I dismembered a body and placed it inside a cooler and poured cat litter over it. It was meant to hide the body that I killed and to hide evidence’,” the spokesman told AFP, declining to elaborate.
Japan prides itself on a low crime rate but is no stranger to high-profile violent crimes.
Earlier in October, a 32-year-old father was arrested on suspicion of stabbing his daughter to death. He admitted torching the house in which his wife and four other children were found dead.
Police have arrested 27-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi who reportedly confessed to slicing the flesh off the bodies and throwing it in the trash, then sprinkling cat litter over the remains in an effort to cover up the evidence.
Police have found at least nine mutilated bodies dumped in containers with their heads cut off and flesh stripped in a suburban Tokyo flat, media reported Tuesday.
According to local media, Shiraishi told police he had chopped up the bodies in a bathroom, while a saw was found in his room.
The suspect reportedly told investigators he had “dumped cut flesh and organs in the trash.”
Police and journalists swarmed around the nondescript apartment in the quiet residential neighborhood of Zama, as locals struggled to comprehend how an act of such violence could have occurred so near them.
He used a saw to dismember the bodies or something. He must be abnormal to have done such things,” said neighbor Hideaki Hosogaya, 83.
When police visited the apartment, they originally found two heads inside a cool box at the entrance before making the grisly discovery of the other body parts, according to Jiji Press.
For the time being, police arrested Shiraishi on a charge that he dismembered one body and placed it in a cooler, a charge that he was not contesting, according to a spokesman for Tokyo Metropolitan Police.
“He has said ‘I dismembered a body and placed it inside a cooler and poured cat litter over it. It was meant to hide the body that I killed and to hide evidence’,” the spokesman told AFP, declining to elaborate.
Japan prides itself on a low crime rate but is no stranger to high-profile violent crimes.
Earlier in October, a 32-year-old father was arrested on suspicion of stabbing his daughter to death. He admitted torching the house in which his wife and four other children were found dead.
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