UpdateJapan police get arrest warrant over body-in-post killing
Package containing body of missing Rika Okada, 29, said to contain a life-sized doll was sent 400km across country without arousing suspicions of postal workers
Japanese police have obtained an arrest warrant for a woman for allegedly using the passport of a nurse whose body was posted across Japan in a box marked “doll”, an official said Wednesday.
The suspect, a 29-year-old Japanese-Brazilian, was detained in China on Tuesday over suspicions she was travelling on the dead woman’s documents.
The woman, who has not yet been named, turned herself in to the Japanese consulate in Shanghai and was detained by local police for the suspected immigration offence, local reports said.
The hunt was raised after the discovery of the mutilated body of nurse Rika Okada, also 29, in a storage lock-up in Tokyo, Jiji Press and other local media reported.
Despite having around a dozen stab wounds, Okada’s body had no defensive injuries – suggesting she was stabbed after death or while she was unconscious.
Investigators also found a two-metre box in which the corpse had been transported from Osaka, 400km to the southwest.