Suspect admits dumping body parts in Osaka park
OSAKA —
A 57-year-old man who was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of dumping body parts in canisters in a park in Osaka earlier this month has admitted to the charge, police said Friday.
The suspect, identified as Yasutaka Fujimori, has been charged with abandoning bodies. On Aug 14, three metal canisters filled with decomposed body parts, including a severed head, three ankles, a pair of hands and bone fragments, were found in three locations in and near Higashikozu park in Tennoji Ward.
DNA evidence showed that the two dead bodies were those of Fujimori’s wife Atsuyo, 47, and his son Nobuaki, 21. Fujimori reported them missing in 2006 and told police he hadn’t seen them since.
When he was arrested on Tuesday, Fujimori denied the charges. However, NHK on Friday quoted police officials as saying that Fujimori had confessed to cutting up the two bodies with an electric saw and putting the parts in four canisters which he placed at various places in and around the park. The fourth canister has not been found and police believe it was probably disposed of along with other garbage.
Police said that Fujimori has so far said nothing about how and when his wife and son died.
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edojin
The cops should ask him one more question ... Why? Why did you do it the way you did?
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Nessie
If I had a nickel for every time someone was charged for abandoning bodies...
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Nessie
Funerals are expensive here, Edojin.
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TumbleDry
Just the first trick to get guy for a little while
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DentShop
If I had a nickel for every time someone was charged for abandoning bodies...
I was just about to make a point about this and I will echo TumbleDry.
I have never heard of this charge anywhere else in the world. It seems like a great idea in order to hold the suspect while the authorities put the case together.
I wonder if other nations are looking at the cases in Japan with an eye to adopting this measure....?
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tomatoflight
Gruesome. What is wrong with these folks?
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oginome
What, did he keep them captive for five years and just killed them recently?
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Cos
" have never heard of this charge anywhere else in the world."
I think the concept was invented in the US. Casey Anthony got a slap on the hand for *abandoning the body" of her toddler. They couldn't prove the kid did not die of old age. Like in this case, now, how can you prove this woman and her son did have a simultaneous heart attack ? I'm joking, but that's true that even if suspicion that he murdered them are huge, they can still have died accidentally or killed each other without his intervention. The guy can be only totally crazy but not a murderer. How many people kept mummies of the grand-dad in a closet ?
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Asy Asyy
I wonder how long the Japanese cops had to threaten and beat him for to secure that confession.
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Nicky Washida
3 days - arrested Tuesday, confessed Friday - most people wouldnt be able to hold out much longer than 3 days without water at least, so sounds about right.
Not saying he did or didnt do it, just amazed by the awesome ability of Japanese police to extract confessions from people without lawyers or video/audio recordings.
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Juan Rodriguez
Exactly, so for all we know this guy was acting rationally according with his prerogatives at that time of the dumpings, that is to say he did not have money for the funeral, how long would he stay in jail if this was the case? Very intriguing case, first time I hear od this.
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Oracle
I wonder if they ever run control questions by these people who confess? Such as ask him if was him who shot JFK, or if it was him who faked the moon landing? I think some of these people would confess to just about anything given some of these crazy, headstrong, presumptive coppers and their narrow minded "techniques" designed to get a confession rather than the truth.
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Asy Asyy
Good point, but I don't think control questions would work on Japanese people. Especially women.
Cop: What is your name? Japanese woman: Eeeeeehhh nani? Eeeeeeh? Wakaranai.
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Nessie
Abandonment of a corpose is a class d felony in parts of the US
194.425. 1. A person commits the crime of abandonment of a corpse if that person abandons, disposes, deserts or leaves a corpse without properly reporting the location of the body to the proper law enforcement officials in that county.
2. Abandonment of a corpse is a class D felony.
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