Dismembered body at Tokyo park found to be of 88-year-old woman

[Ceewan]

TOKYO —

Dismembered body parts found in a park in Tokyo’s Meguro Ward have been identified as those of an 88-year-old woman who lived in neighboring Setagaya Ward, police said Monday.

The police, who have been investigating the incident as a case of abandoning a body, identified the victim through a DNA test as Tokiko Abe, who lived alone in an apartment, according to investigators.

A security camera at the apartment building captured the woman at around 8 p.m. on June 19, four days before the body parts were found in a pond in Himonya Park, they said. The footage showed her seeing off her son’s family after a visit.

On the morning of the next day, however, a person from a house cleaning company, who had an appointment, received no response when arriving at the apartment and calling her by phone, they said.

The body parts were found about 600 meters from the woman’s apartment, they said.

The house cleaning company reported to the police Sunday that they had been unable to contact her.

Police officers who visited her home later on Sunday found no blood, they said.

The body parts including her head, arms, legs and parts of a torso have been recovered from the pond since last Thursday, when a cleaner spotted a human leg floating in the water.

The police believe the body was dismembered with a knife.

The park is located in a residential area near Gakugei Daigaku station on the Tokyu Toyoko line.

In a separate incident, the body of an unidentified woman was found Monday in a suitcase floating in a canal near Tokyo Bay in Shinagawa Ward, which is adjacent to Meguro Ward, the police said.

The police said the body was likely to be a woman in her 30s or 40s.

 

[Ceewan]

Woman's body found in suitcase floating in Tokyo canal


The body of a woman was found in a suitcase floating in Tokyo's Keihin Canal on June 27, police said.

A man on a boat spotted a black suitcase in the Keihin Canal in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward at around 1:30 p.m. on June 27 and reported it to the Metropolitan Police Department's Tokyo Wangan Police Station. Officers recovered the suitcase and found the body of a woman inside.

According to police, the woman appearing to be in her 30s or 40s was wearing a pink camisole and light blue shorts. She was found curled up inside the suitcase, which measured about 50 centimeters wide, 30 centimeters deep and 70 centimeters high. The body had no visible injuries and had not started to decompose at the time it was found.

The site where the body was recovered is some 100 meters east of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail. A man who was sailing near the site at the time the suitcase was found said, "I saw the suitcase floating about 20 meters from a pier. I was shocked to hear that they found a body in it."

 

[Ceewan]

Man arrested over dismembered corpse says victim woke up and caught him in her Tokyo apartment

A man under arrest for allegedly dumping the dismembered corpse of an 88-year-old woman into a pond in Meguro Ward, Tokyo, has told investigators he strangled the victim because she woke up and discovered he had broken into her apartment.

“I strangled her with my hands to make her quiet,” Yasunobu Ikeda, 28, allegedly told investigators.

He has already reportedly told them he had entered Tokiko Abe’s apartment through an unlocked balcony door to steal money. The police are treating the case as a murder.

Investigative sources alleged that Ikeda entered Abe’s third-floor apartment in the early hours of June 20, killed her and cut up her body with a kitchen knife he found there.

The police have found traces of blood as well as apparent human tissue in Abe’s bathroom.

The sources also quoted Ikeda as saying Tuesday that he briefly left the apartment to buy a sports bag to bring out the dismembered body. He entered her apartment again June 21, put Abe’s remains in a plastic bag before putting them in the sports bag to take to the pond.

Ikeda also said he dumped the bag and the knife in the garbage at his house, according to the sources. He also separately discarded the sneakers he wore when he broke into Abe’s apartment. The soles of the shoes matched imprints taken on Abe’s balcony and in her apartment, they said.

Ikeda was initially arrested for allegedly dumping the victim’s body in the pond at Himonya Park. The case broke when a cleaning worker found a human leg floating in the pond on June 23. Other body parts were later found there in a subsequent sweep by the police.

Security cameras at and near Abe’s apartment had filmed a man resembling Ikeda with a dark sports bag at 2 a.m. June 21. Security footage also showed a man believed to be Ikeda riding a bicycle toward the park soon after that, and later walking around the pond at night, leading the police to speculate that he had carried Abe’s body parts in the bag.

Abe lived alone on the third floor of a residential complex about 600 meters from the pond, the police said. Ikeda lives with his mother in a condominium about 500 meters from Abe’s home. They have reportedly lived there for over 10 years.

 

[Ceewan]

Chinese man admits dumping body in suitcase in Tokyo canal

TOKYO —

Police on Saturday said a Chinese man, who was arrested earlier this month for overstaying his visa, has admitted to putting the body of a Chinese woman in a suitcase and dumping in a canal in Tokyo.

The body of Yang Mei, 34, was found in the suitcase floating in the canal near Tennozu Isle Station in Shinagawa Ward on June 27. Yang had been missing for more than two years.

Police quoted the suspect, in his 30s, was quoted as saying he used to live with Yang. Police said he will be charged with abandoning a corpse.

The corpse, clad in a camisole and short pants, was not badly decomposed when discovered. Reports said the woman had not been dead for long.

Yang came to Japan in September 2013 as a trainee to participate in the government’s Industrial Trainee and Technical Internship Program (TTIP). She was working at an auto-parts plant in Kyoto but disappeared from her dormitory after being seen in its cafeteria in March 2014. She was placed on a missing persons watch list by police in Kyoto.

Police matched the fingerprints of the body with those of Yang from the immigration bureau.


turns out the two different incendences had nothing in common.

 

[WillEater]

Those damned Chinese..