Tokyo: The Japanese police said Thursday that they had arrested a 75 -year -old woman who allegedly confessed to keep her daughter’s body in a freezer for two decades.
The investigators found on Tuesday the body of an adult woman in a deep freezer in Keiko Mori’s house in Ibaraki’s prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, said a spokesman for the local police on condition of anonymity.
Mori “said he was his daughter,” Makiko, who was born in 1975 and would be 49 or 50 years old if he was alive, said the spokesman.
“The decomposition advanced,” he added, noting that an autopsy would be performed to determine the cause of death.
Mori arrived at the police on Tuesday with a relative to inform that he had kept the body in the freezer.
When the researchers visited the house with Mori, they found the body dressed in a shirt and underwear, kneeling face down inside the freezer, said the spokesman.
Mori was arrested on suspicion of leaving a body.
She told the researchers that the smell filled the house, so she bought the freezer and placed the daughter’s body inside, according to the spokesman.
Mori had several children, but the police did not reveal how many or what they had told researchers about Makiko.
She had been living alone since her husband’s death earlier this month, said the spokesman.
