A 53-year-old suspect, who was arrested for abandoning the body of a female university student who was found dead in an apartment in Sapporo, responded to a police investigation, saying, ``The victim asked me to kill him, and I strangled him. It was newly found in an interview with investigative officials that he had stated that he was murdered.

The police are analyzing the contents of the exchanges between the two people on SNS before the incident and investigating the details.

Isamu Ono (53), unemployed in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, was arrested on 10th of this month on suspicion of abandoning the body of a 22-year-old female university student in Otaru City in his apartment room.



According to the police, the two are believed to have met on social media, and Ono has admitted to the charges.



In addition, it was newly found in interviews with investigative officials that he had stated, "I was asked by the victim to kill me, and I killed him by strangling him in his apartment."



The victim, a female university student, lost contact with her family after leaving her home on the 3rd of this month, and is believed to have died the following day around the 4th. It is known that there were posts suggesting involvement in the incident.



The victim's mobile phone was found in the apartment at the scene, and the police will analyze the contents of the two people's exchanges on SNS before the incident to investigate the details, and will continue to investigate the suspicion of murder. to

A woman who contacted the suspect on SNS, etc., sent a message saying, "I'll kill you."

A woman who continued to contact Ono on SNS until he was arrested responded to NHK's coverage.



A woman in her twenties living in Hokkaido was worried and wrote "I want to die" on SNS, and in December last year, she received a message from Ono saying "I'll kill you."



After that, she continued to communicate many times on SNS and telephone, and Ono demanded 50,000 yen for the cost of undertaking the murder.



Also, according to the woman, the suspect said, "If you think it's best to choose death, I respect it," and "I will destroy the body and the evidence at the scene, so I won't be caught by the police."



The woman said she was deterred after seeing reports of the incident, but she said of the suspect, "She was really kind on the internet and felt like she was my only ally. ' she said.