Tokyo: Japanese police said Thursday that they had arrested a 75 -year -old woman who would have confessed to having kept her daughter’s body in a freezer for two decades.
Investigators found the body of an adult woman on Tuesday in a deep freezer at the home of Keiko Mori in the Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, said a spokesperson for local police on condition of anonymity.
Mori “said it was his daughter”, Makiko, who was born in 1975 and would be 49 or 50 years old if herself, said the spokesman.
“Decay progressed,” he added, noting that an autopsy would be carried out to determine the cause of death.
Mori came to the police on Tuesday with a parent to report that she had kept the body in the freezer.
When the investigators visited the house with Mori, they found the body dressed in a t-shirt and underwear on their knees in front of the freezer, said the spokesperson.
Mori was arrested for suspicion of having abandoned a body.
She told investigators that the smell filled the house, so she bought the freezer and placed the girl’s body inside, the spokesperson said.
Mori had several children, but the police did not reveal how much or what they had spoken of the investigators on Makiko.
She had lived alone since the death of her husband earlier this month, said the spokesman.
