Police take Ryo Katsuki into custody on Saturday in this image taken from TV.

Police arrest 21-year-old man over dumping of 5-year-old girl's naked body in Chiba

Sunday 07th December, 05:03 AM JST

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paolo27th at 11:03 PM JST - 6th December

Wait a sec, the article says they pinned the suspect because he's a local perv. What do the plastic bags with her clothes have to do with it? How did they find them? Did they search every dustbin in the area looking for evidence? Did they go straight to the guy's house? Did they search his house at any point? JT REALLY has to give us more details on this.
Sarge at 11:12 PM JST - 6th December

"Katsuki told investigators he mat a girl aged around 5 on the day in question... At the beginning he told investigators that he had stayed at home all day on the day the murder was committed, but later changed his story during Saturday's questioning to say he was in a library."

He's guilty as hell.
iraira at 11:26 PM JST - 6th December

He'll get two years for abandoning a body, but they won't be able to get a murder conviction. Reasonable doubt the size of an electron is enough in JP.
romulus3 at 11:29 PM JST - 6th December

He's guilty as hell.

Sarge, Old buddy, based on what?

the cops could have leaned on him and bent his reality to hell and back. so far its a plastic back vs nothing. Lets hope further editorials shed more light but for now, this guy looks like he has been stitched up. Could just be JT dramatics...or he is the one, but I do not buy a change of story and a plastic bag as guilt. WHERE IS THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE? after I see that, ruin the guy but not before then.
squidinkling at 11:36 PM JST - 6th December

Cops searched his home while he was submitting to "voluntary" questioning. . . . Worth remembering if you're ever asked to answer some questions.
dotherightthing at 11:54 PM JST - 6th December

I hope he is the right one! The murder needs to be punished!
cleo at 12:41 AM JST - 7th December

What do the plastic bags with her clothes have to do with it? How did they find them?

The plastic bags containing the little girl's shoes and clothes were found under a car parked a little way away from the body.
Mayuki at 01:12 AM JST - 7th December

Now, I can breath a small sigh of relief. However, there is little reason to celebrate or to become complaisant.

Disillusioned, I think you mean "breathe a small sigh of relief" and "become complacent". Complaisant means eager to please.
Dogdog at 01:35 AM JST - 7th December

WHERE IS THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE? after I see that, ruin the guy but not before then.

I was one of the few who said that the perp was definitely a local opportunist, when the murder happened.

Again I'm gonna be one of the few who agrees with the above statement, rather than the guy's guilt. The guy is obviously more intellectually challenged than your average 21 year old Japanese freetar, which is saying something, and this stinks of a J keystone cops stitch up because the real perp hasn't walked into the station and confessed and until he does, the crime, without this fall guy, would have remained unsolved.

Prediction, in the next year, when this guy will have been sentenced to life for this crime, they'll be a similar crime in the area (killing a 5 year old is not a one off) and no one will put the dots together...
RakishGadfly at 06:16 AM JST - 7th December

Glad they made some kind of arrest in this case, and not surprised that our JT armchair detectives are at it again using their awesome mental powers to say that he is not the guy.
Sarge at 10:23 AM JST - 7th December

Romulus, old buddy, based on this:

His fingerprints were found on the bags containing the girl's clothes, plus he said, "I was at home with a girl and she became limp. So I carried her outside... I am the one who put the girl's shoes and clothes in the bags and threw them away."
mikihouse at 11:20 AM JST - 7th December

yup, the guy's fingerprint was all over the plastic where the dead girl was wrapped according to the evidence presented. The proximity of the crime to the hospital led the police to believe the killer has either did it inside a car or just lived nearby. However no car was reported to be around the area during that time and they began profiling people near the area.
Himajin at 12:03 PM JST - 7th December

The police and media never release everything...when the Sakakibara case was ongoing in Kobe, the police knew from the minute they saw the notes left by the killer that it was a juvenile, but never released the fact. They also did not contradict media reports of a 'suspicious black car' in the area of the school gate the morning the boy's head was left there. So--we were all on watch, all club activities at school were canceled even in Kita-ku, a good way away from the murder scene, all because the police withheld information from the public. Our neighborhood was on virtual lockdown because everyone thought the killer was an adult male driving a sedan. Don't think that this is the whole story, it most likely is not.
the_sicilian at 01:12 PM JST - 7th December

Just from this little "piece" of reporting, the police still have a lot of work on their hands. DNA that places him with the body or clothing will help, but there has to be more than this.

Lets see if the J-cops really get the right guy. If not, they may toss some poor handicapped guy in jail forever because that was the easier thing to do. Sadly, this seems likely.

Addiu
ultradodgy at 09:32 AM JST - 8th December
Quite frankly, this seems to be a pretty good investigation by the police:
- Lifting his fingerprints off plastic bags, tracking them back to the stores and his image on their security cameras
- Specific cause of death
- Finding the suspect, who has admitting being with her, seeing her "go limp" and carrying her outside, who has then changed his story repeatedly
I would assume the lck of DNA evidence is simply due to the time it takes to collect trace and run the tests. This entire investigation seems to have been run very smoothly and very quickly, and it'll take some time for more intensive testing to catch up with the speed of the case.

Of course everyone is assumed innocent, but the facts of the case do not favour the young man in question. Innocent until proven guilty does NOT mean you are not allowed to form a reasonable opinion of what may have happened.