Woman's body found in suitcase in Tokyo hotel

Sunday 07th September, 02:09 AM JST

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Sarge at 09:30 PM JST - 6th September

"The body was that of a trim woman"

I believe that.

zurcronium - Hotel California? Nessie, from Scotland, will get the reference?
bamboohat at 10:39 PM JST - 6th September

this sounds like one of those creepy videos of girls being vacuumed in plastic bags gone wrong. Or a really cruel way to off somebody. I certainly hope she was dead, from something quick and unsuspected when they stuffed her in the suitcase, rather than suffocated inside the bag in the case.

Something that is curious, is a body takes a while to put up a stink like that, maybe a few days, which means the dude that offed her either has been paying for the room all this time, by credit card (which I doubt) or the body just stayed in an unused room for a while, OR, it was in there while somebody was using the room....
bushlover at 05:02 AM JST - 7th September

I think a staff member did it. How else would a suitcase get there? After a checkout the cleaning staff go in and clean. They may have cleaned very well.
Smythe at 05:25 AM JST - 7th September

Hard to believe some one has the time, tools, & such to cut up a human that can be stuffed into a suitcase. Also without leaving some form of a mess. Crumbs even getting a turkey ready for Xmas is a task to me.
GW at 11:05 AM JST - 7th September

J-cops prove incompetent once again.......cant these keystones EVER do anything right. I mean if your evacuating 2 floors it wud have been kinda pruttent to have a master key if no one opened the doors & it shud have been easy to figure out where the stench was coming from.

pathetic once again
serindipity at 12:52 PM JST - 7th September

Hey GW! Don't be so hard on the J-cops. At least the opened the case to see what was in it, unlike the dummy in a bag from last week.
Beelzebub at 01:47 PM JST - 7th September

If you think about it, it's a good way to dispose of a body. The perpetrator probably killed her somewhere else, then brought the suitcase to the hotel, where he could blend in with other guests carrying luggage. It's possible he never even checked in at all. Unlike other hotels in that area, the Shinjuku Washington Hotel is highly automated (you can check in and out from an ATM). It was the first hotel in Japan to adopt this kind of electronic transaction, when it first opened around 1982 or thereabouts.
Kapuna at 02:54 PM JST - 7th September

A dead body? As opposed to what,a live body?
michaelkane at 09:02 PM JST - 7th September

It more seems like it started with a humor as if a girl can fit in a suitcase, may be one of the usual crazy things done. And later the guy left her there to die or to teach her a lesson. She must have died of suffocation or the fear of being alone.
Apsara at 09:43 PM JST - 7th September

It's possible to die of "the fear of being alone"? I didn't know that.
WilliB at 09:43 AM JST - 8th September

michaelkane:

" It more seems like it started with a humor as if a girl can fit in a suitcase "

...wrapped in a plastic bag? Yeah, right. Some kind of humour.
Richard_III at 11:26 AM JST - 8th September

LIBERTAS at 05:34 PM JST - 6th September Watch some "It's the R U L E!" front desk zombie charge her credit card for not checking out on time!

This simple sentence says so much that is true about Japan.
Proffessor at 05:29 PM JST - 8th September

Smythe, the statement does not say the body was cut up in pieces. It says it was curled up in a fetal position (like a fetus in the womb).
usaexpat at 11:44 PM JST - 8th September

How big a suitcase was it to fit a non-dismembered adult female into? Must have been a pretty large case that should have been noticed. Anyway, as others have said just plain creepy.
shammuk at 12:11 PM JST - 11th September

which hotel is this? damn this guy for leaving her in that room... atleast throw her in the dumpster otherwise we might all be checking into that room by accident...