On the 12th, a skeletonized male body was found in a room in an apartment before demolition work in Adachi-ku, Tokyo, and the Metropolitan Police Department arrested a former resident of this room on suspicion of abandoning the corpse.
The person arrested was Masae Suzuki (81) in Umeda, Adachi-ku, Tokyo.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Suzuki is suspected of abandoning the corpse, alleging that he left the man's body in a closet in an apartment room in Shimane, Adachi-ku.
In the room at the scene, Suzuki and his ex-husband in his 70s, who divorced in the 1950s, lived together for about 20 years until recently, and Suzuki moved in March because the apartment was demolished. ..
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the body seems to be more than half a year old, and Suzuki explained to the investigation that the body was a former husband and stated that "I could not pay the funeral expenses because I did not have money." That is.
The Metropolitan Police Department considers the body to be a former husband and is proceeding with identification and investigating how it died.