Police in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, have arrested three men over the death of a 30-year-old woman whose body was found buried in a mountain forest on Sunday.
According to police, the three men — Mitsuharu Okamoto, 44, who lives in Osaka, Tsubasa Endo, 28, also from Osaka, and Yuki Sato, 27, a resident of Kanazawa — killed Akino Kita, 30, a bar manager whom they knew, by beating and strangling her, on the street near her home at around 4 a.m. on Oct 9, Fuji TV reported. The suspects then took her body to a mountain forest in Noto, where they buried it.
Police said the three men have initially been charged with abandoning a body but said the charge will be changed to one of murder. Endo has denied the charge, police said.
Kita’s family filed a missing person’s report when she failed to return home on Oct 9. Police found blood on the street near Kita’s home and street surveillance camera footage led them to Okamoto and Sato who were arrested on Saturday. Endo was arrested in Kanazawa on Monday afternoon.
Acting on information provide by Okamoto, police found Kita’s body on Sunday morning. Police said the three men and Kita had some sort of financial dispute.
© Japan Today
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Chip Star
Sad.
If you murder someone, the decedent will not repay the money.
AgentX
Geez! What a horrible thing!
I wonder if the older guys pushed the younger guy into being part of it.
gelendestrasse
Pathetic. And a repeat of another crime earlier this year. WTH is wrong with people.
Kuro
one could consider writing some books to answer your question... the list is long !
Brian Wheway
There are quite a few people who write on the bulletin board quoting how useless the J cops are, well I am sorry, but that they seem to be on the ball in this case.
sir_bentley28
Money is always the root of most murders! That's so sad.
HARRYO
As stated financial dispute might be the cause for this murder but really the real reason is yet to be determined. But to commit this crime of murder and alter the rest of your life over money is simply ridiculous.
I personally have better things to do with my life then rot in prison over some murder related to some money.
Enjoy prison life you morons.