Police in Izumi, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 40-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of killing her 39-year-old boyfriend and stashing his body inside a freezer at her house.
According to police, Aya Tomita has admitted to fatally stabbing her boyfriend as he slept at around midnight in a bedroom on the second floor in early January, Kyodo News reported.
Tomita was accompanied by her parents to Izumi Police Station at 1 p.m. on Tuesday. The parents stated that their daughter told them she had killed her partner with whom she had been living in the house for the past 10 years..
Police said Tomita told them she wrapped the corpse in a blanket and then placed it inside a commercial freezer on the first floor. She was quoted as saying she purchased the commercial freezer for the purpose of storing the body.
© Japan Today
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Tell_me_bout_it
10 years liver together, still not married?
nosuke
One good reason not to get married or have a gf as this sort of story is way to common here
Daninthepan
I noticed a bigger problem.
Mark
Out of love, Out of work, Out of cash, and if he stopped bringing $$ then his time was up.
This is what it's all about, Parasites come in all shapes and forms.
Awa no Gaijin
Why did she tell her parents ?
And why the murder ?
Gaijinjland
There are plenty of couples who live together long term happily and, for whatever reasons, don’t go down to city hall and make it “official”. That’s not the strange part of the story…
Hello Kitty 321
@Mark
How do you know it was the man who was earning the money? Maybe he was the parasite and that was why she killed him. We don't know the background to the story so why do you have to make it up?
purple_depressed_bacon
Sounds like she had it all planned out, down to purchasing a freezer big enough to store a body.
Jonathan Prin
Not enough information again to have any form of judgement. Let time to get the reason for such crime to reach police then the media.
Killing someone while he/she sleeps seems highly heinous though.
obladi
Maybe he told her he was going to leave? So hard to figure people out.
Martimurano
So many different scenarios could have played out here, but one thing is for certain, violence is Never the answer - it's going to be a long stretch behind bars with any luck for her to contemplate her vicious and uncivilised decision.
kaimycahl
WOW, so many things happened here she bought a freezer and put his body in it. That right there says she knew exactly what she planned to do. But the real question is why did she kill him?
Alongfortheride
So?
wtfjapan
10 years liver together, still not married?
do you think being married would have changed her murderous tendency !?
wtfjapan
But the real question is why did she kill him?
maybe she wasnt married after 10yrs and had enough!?
Stephen Chin
She bought the commercial freezer for the purpose of storing the body of her boyfriend when she killed him after ten years of living together? By doing so she has obtained a visa to the death chamber.
Strangerland
Probably not. Single murders rarely get the death penalty in Japan, unless there are extenuating circumstances.
starpunk
Remember that cannibal jerk who killed his GF and stuffed her body parts in the fridge? He passed away a few months ago. This time it looks like the roles are reversed.
Either way, it's cowardly and gross!
sir_bentley28
I am very curious as to what was her motive. It could be that she was abused every day for the past years, jealousy, he filed for divorce, or as it usually happens "I stabbed him because we had an arugument, but I didn't intend to kill him!"
602miko
What was the reason? That freezer my gosh it's for him and intentionally.
Alex
starpunkToday 06:45 am JST
Except unlike said cannibal, she didn't rape him and then eat him afterwards. So not really a role reversal. Not that that information makes it any less disturbing what she did. Especially having clearly prepared for it.
AdamP75
Is there reason to believe she perhaps did not act alone? It would be extremely difficult to carry a dead body by yourself and deposit into a freezer. Something tells me there was someone else there helping her.