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Police in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, said Monday they have arrested a 25-year-old private detective on suspicion of killing his 24-year-old girlfriend.
According to police, the suspect, Yuta Hikichi, 25, strangled to death Yumiko Yamaguchi at his office/residence at around 7 a.m. on Saturday, NTV reported. Police said the couple met through Twitter and had been going together since last October.
Hikichi called police on Saturday afternoon and said Yamaguchi had not returned home and asked them to search for her. However, police said his comments were inconsistent and when officers came to his place, they found the dead woman in bed.
Hikichi was quoted by police as saying he flew into a rage during an argument with Yamaguchi over their living expenses and income the night before and that he strangled her while she slept.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
Another SNAP! I can't count the amount of times I've read the same pity full excuse. I guess ge won't have to worry about his living expenses for quite some time. I could also make a comment along the lines of this being another online meeting couple that ended in a death, but I probably shouldn't.
rickyvee
he must have been lousy PD if he couldn't even come up with a good alibi. but what a coward to strangle her in her sleep.
oikawa
A private detective calls police to his own apartment where the girlfriend he's just killed is lying dead? I'm not surprised his income was pretty low.
AlexCook
Some situations like this can be easily avoided by just leaving her.
DenTok2009
Same reaction, Oikawa. Given that apartments here don't have a bedroom per se, it's odd that he didn't dispose of the body before reporting her missing. I wonder whether he has a loft apartment so perhaps he felt confident that the officers responding to his call wouldn't climb up to check the futon. =p Or he was panicking and instead of thinking things through (which he should have done before giving in to his rage and strangling her as she slumbered), he quickly called 110 and told his story and was surprised by the quick appearance of the officers at his genkan?
Commodore Shmidlap (Retired)
I think the thing he did wrong wasn't coming up with a poor alibi, calling the cops on himself or failing to properly dispose of the body before he did so. It was killing another human being in the first place.
Wakarimasen
Living expense row leads to this? anger management issues.
CrazyJoe
The story has more holes than Swiss cheese.
techall
What exactly does it take to be a "private detective" in Japan, anybody know?
Argus Tuft
@techall
Not a whole hell of a lot - It's pretty much just a paper test, and it seems like there isn't much by way of screening. It looks to be a shady, shady business.