Take our user survey and make your voice heard.
Police in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, said Saturday they have arrested an unemployed 39-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 23-year-old woman in her apartment last June.
According to police, the suspect, Toru Murakami, was an acquaintance of Kana Ofuji, who worked as a beautician, Fuji TV reported. Her body was found on June 8 last year by a co-worker after she failed to show up for work for two days. The door to her apartment was not locked. Police said Ofuji's body was lying face-up on a sofa, with the lower half of her body covered by a blanket. An autopsy revealed she had been strangled to death.
Police said Murakami's fingerprints were found in Ofuji's apartment. He has denied killing Ofuji but admitted he did know her.
Murakami was working as truck driver, based in Sapporo, last year, and said that he made several trips to Kanagawa as part of his job. He was taken into custody in Sapporo on Friday night and charged with Ofuji's murder on Saturday morning.
© Japan Today
5 Comments
Login to comment
Disillusioned
Is this enough to arrest him and print his name in the newspaper? It seems very circumstantial to me. They can prove he was in her place, but there is nothing to prove the timing. Unless, of course, the media is holding back information relevant to his arrest.
Jonathan Prin
Guilty until proven innocent. One is enough for J police. Disgusting.
bones
Well with their 90 something conviction rate I am sure he will CONFESS or they will "make him confess"
canadianbento
Take this "creep" out to the back 40 and string him up. This type of person is not what this World needs!
TheGodfather
"Unless, of course, the media is holding back information relevant to his arrest"
The police would've had to match the fingerprints back to a database of known offenders. And yes, the evidence is "circumstantial" right now but it buys the J-cops some time...