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2 men arrested for abandoning woman’s body wrapped in tarp

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Police in Muko, Kyoto Prefecture, said Wednesday they have arrested two men on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman, wrapped from head to toe in a tarp bound by white adhesive tape, in the parking lot of an apartment building.

Police said the two men are Takahiko Hashimoto, 55, an unemployed resident of the apartment building, and Wataru Yoneda, 29, who works for the Community Welfare and Services Division in Muko City, Fuji TV reported. Hashimoto lived in an apartment on the first floor and Yoneda rented an apartment on the second floor.

According to police reports, Hashimoto has been receiving welfare benefits and Yoneda was the caseworker in charge of determining his eligibility. The as-yet unidentified body, which had decayed, is believed to be that of an adult woman in her 40s who lived with Hashimoto. Police said she appeared to have been dead for at least a month.

A neighbor called 110 at around 11 a.m. on Tuesday and said there was a foul smell coming from Yoneda's apartment.

Following their arrest, Hashimoto and Yoneda both admitted to carrying the corpse and abandoning it in the parking lot at around 11:20 a.m. They believe the body had been stored in a refrigerator in Yoneda's apartment.

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incomplete news, don't understand the case yet?

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Very incomplete. We don’t know what connection the two accused have with each other and we don’t know what relationship the victim had with either of the accused.

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Wataru Yoneda, 29, who works for the Community Welfare and Services Division in Muko City,

I know I shouldn't have, but I actually had a little chuckle over this quote. His community welfare service is dumping a body wrapped in a tarp in a carpark? WTF!!!

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