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2 men arrested for abandoning corpse in mountains of Ehime

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Two men from Kochi Prefecture have been arrested on suspicion of abandoning a body in the mountains of Ehime Prefecture. The suspects -- Mizuho Sakoda, 41, and Eiji Hatake, 41 -- are accused of burying the body of a male acquaintance who lived in Tosa, Kochi Prefecture, in the mountains near Tobe, Ehime Prefecture, in June 2015, Fuji TV reported.

According to police, a missing person report was filed last summer but no sign of the missing man's whereabouts was found. On Monday, the two suspects surrendered themselves to police and revealed where they had dumped the body of their acquaintance.

The suspects have confessed to the crime and police said they plan to upgrade the charge from abandoning a body to murder.

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The word vague springs to mind.

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The word vague springs to mind.

Read it as an ipso facto murder conviction.

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You are definitely not allowed to abandon a corpse in the mountains of Ehime.

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No mention of how the "aquaintance" turned into a body... I dont suppose they suddenly found their friend dead and then abandoned im in the mountains of Ehime

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Someone, these two, got told to take the rap. Whether they killed him or not isn't the point here, the crime is solved and the police and their "friends" can get back to business as usual.

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In other countries abandoning a corpse is called a suspected murder. Why use these choice of words rather than call it what it actually is? You can't just abandoning a corpse of a "acquaintance" and not have the suspicion that something had actually occurred.

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In other countries abandoning a corpse is called a suspected murder.

Really?

Schneider has been charged with indignity to a human body, but charges could be changed to homicide pending an autopsy report which is set to take place Monday.

Link: http://www.cknw.com/2016/10/03/man-charged-in-relation-to-natsumi-kogawa-death-makes-brief-court-appearance/

Why use these choice of words rather than call it what it actually is?

You say they aren't calling it what it is, so are you saying they didn't abandon the corpse? Then how did it get there?

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Abandoning a corpse is easy to prove, thus prompting an arrest. It takes longer to prove a murder and upgrade the charges

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Abandoning a corpse is easy to prove, thus prompting an arrest. It takes longer to prove a murder and upgrade the charges

It's also a charge that they are easily willing to drop in favor of murder.

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No mention in the article why they killed him?

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