Halloween horror: man arrested after police find nine dismembered bodies in Tokyo flat, packed in cooler boxes
The apparent victims include a missing 23-year-old woman who exchanged messages about a suicide pact with suspect Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, officers suspect
Japanese police have found nine mutilated bodies dumped in containers with their heads cut off and flesh stripped in a suburban Tokyo flat.
Tokyo police have arrested 27-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi who reportedly confessed to slicing the flesh off the bodies and throwing it in the trash, then sprinkling cat litter over the remains in an effort to cover up the evidence.
According to local media, Shiraishi told police he had chopped up the bodies in a bathroom, while a saw was found in his room.
The suspect reportedly told investigators he had “dumped cut flesh and organs in the trash”.
Police and journalists swarmed around the nondescript flat in the quiet residential neighbourhood of Zama, as locals struggled to comprehend how an act of such violence could have occurred so near them.
“It’s really cruel. He used a saw to dismember the bodies or something. He must be abnormal to have done such things,” said neighbour Hideaki Hosogaya, 83.