In the case of the arrest of a 19-year-old suspect after the body of a woman was found in a car in Kamimikawa Town, Tochigi Prefecture on the 28th, interviews with investigators revealed that there were marks that looked like stranglehold on the woman's neck. Police are working to identify and determine the cause of death, as well as investigating the likelihood of death.
On the 19th, the body of a woman with something like a cloth draped all over her head was found from the back seat of a rental car parked on the street in Kamimikawa Town, and the suspect Tatsuya Yasusu (28) of Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture, who was driving, was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body.
He has admitted to the charges.
According to the police, the woman is believed to have been dead for a few days and has multiple bruises all over her body, but subsequent interviews with investigators revealed that she had a strangled wound on her neck.
The woman was in her teens and twenties and wore a white blouse, a navy blue V-neck sweater with a one-point pattern on her left breast, a pleated skirt with a green plaid pattern, and dark blue socks.
Police are investigating the identity and cause of death, as well as knowing the reason for the death.