This month, police said that a person's scapula found in the mountains of Doshi Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, went missing at a nearby campsite three years ago. Announced on the 14th that they matched.
The police decided that Misaki had died and decided to proceed with the investigation in terms of both the incident and the accident, such as investigating the route leading to the area around the site where the bone was found from the campsite.
On the 23rd of last month, a part of the bone of a person's head was found in Yamanakazawa in Doshi Village, Yamanashi Prefecture, and when police subsequently searched the area, a scapula was found on the 4th of this month.
As a result of DNA analysis of this scapula, police said that the DNA type matched with Misaki Ogura of Narita City, Chiba Prefecture, who was a first-year elementary school student at the time when he went missing at a nearby campsite three years ago. ,Announced.
In addition, the police determined that Misaki had died based on the bones found.
The cause of death is unknown.
Police will continue to search along the river for bones and other parts of the river, looking for clues that will help clarify the location of the death and the cause of death.
In addition, we will proceed with the investigation in terms of both the incident and the accident, such as re-examining the route leading to the area around the swamp where the bones were found from the campsite where the whereabouts were lost.