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Woman says bodies are her kids A 54-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of killing her 19-year-old daughter in their apartment in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, has said three other bodies found at the apartment -- two babies and a young boy -- are also those of her children, police sources said May 13. Chizuko Okamoto was arrested May 3 after the police found the bodies of her daughter, Rikako, and her 35-year-old stepson, Minehiro Yamauchi, in the apartment May 1, and the bodies of a boy and two babies hidden in cardboard boxes the next day. The suspect told investigators the body of a boy is her son, Toshihide, whom she reported as missing in 1984 when he was 6 years old. She said the bodies of the babies, apparently newborns, were her children. Chizuko is suspected of strangling Rikako on Oct. 12. The police believe Yamauchi, who is the son of her late common-law husband and another woman, had committed suicide. Yamauchi was hanging inside the apartment while Rikako was found in a futon set.
The Japan Times Weekly: May 20, 2006 |
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