A 48-year-old Japanese woman has confessed to hiding her mother’s corpse in a freezer for 10 years, AFP said.
According to police reports, the woman revealed that she feared eviction if the death was discovered.
Police told AFP that the suspect named Yumi Yoshino was held “on suspicion of abandoning and hiding a female body” found on Wednesday in a freezer in a Tokyo apartment.
Yoshino said after finding her mother dead 10 years ago, she hid the body because she “didn’t want to move out” of the home they shared, local media reported, citing unnamed police sources.
The mother, thought to have been aged around 60 at the time of her death, was named on the lease of the apartment in a municipal housing complex.
Yoshino had been forced to leave the apartment in mid-January after missing rent payments and a cleaner then discovered the body in a freezer hidden in a closet.
An autopsy could not determine the time and cause of the woman’s death, while there were no visible wounds on the frozen body.
The body had been bent to fit in the freezer, police told Jiji Press.
Yoshino then was arrested in a hotel in the city of Chiba, near Tokyo, on Friday, January 29.
Via AFP.
