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A 28-year-old man who was arrested on suspicion of killing his 54-year-old adoptive mother last year has died after being found unresponsive in his detention cell in Osaka, authorities said Friday.
Police said Rin Takai apparently hanged himself with a T-shirt sometime before 7 a.m. on Thursday in the cell on the third floor of the police station in Fukushima Ward, Kyodo News reported. He was the only occupant of the cell.
A guard found him unresponsive while making his rounds. Takai was taken to hospital where he died late Thursday.
Takai, who claimed to be a consultant residing in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, was arrested in July for forging the names of his adoptive mother's relatives on adoption papers. On Aug 25, police served him with a second arrest warrant on suspicion of killing his adoptive mother, Naoko Takai in July 2021.
Police allege that Takai committed the murder over a ¥150 million life insurance policy. The victim was found dead in the bathtub, partially submerged, with a bandage wrapped tightly around her right wrist, at around 11 a.m. on July 26, at her house in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture. The victim, a company employee who lived alone, was last seen at her office on July 21, prior to the long holiday weekend for the Tokyo Olympics. She was due back at work on July 26.
When she didn't show up for work, Takai's boss contacted one of her relatives and they visited the apartment and found the body. Police said Takai had no pre-existing medical conditions, and no drugs or alcohol were found in her system. Pressure marks were found on her left wrist, indicating she may have been restrained by bandages on both arms, police said. An autopsy revealed that she had drowned on or around July 23.
Police said that the life insurance payout beneficiary was her adopted son.
© Japan Today
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3RENSHO
Why was he permitted to kill himself?
BertieWooster
Solitary confinement, for how long? In a tiny room with no windows, not even a table or chair, alone with his guilt, is it surprising?
Seesaw7
What a disaster. She adopted him with good intention. He killed her.
therougou
Because the cops are bumbling idiots. What this article doesn't mention is that they had a note from the killer saying he would commit suicide, and they failed to pass the note on within the department.
The fact that they took over a year to arrest this guy is also bizarre. Adopted son? Life insurance payout beneficiary? Nothing suspicious there...
therougou
Who knows if she even adopted him. The guy was caught forging signatures, after all.
He also worked for (supposedly) Prudential selling insurance policies, so at the least he probably pressured her into it or pretended he wanted to be with her.
Nuno Teixeira da Cunha
With so much time alone in his cell he did what he felt was the best for him and for all, he left a track of very suspicious doings, forging documents while an insurance salesman was one, that crime, very often history in Hollywood noir movies ( Double Indemnity) ends up the same way with a relief from guity.
purple_depressed_bacon
Coward. Hope he rots in hell.
Mr Kipling
He lived in a tower mansion in Minato ku, drove a Lambo and needed the money to date hostesses. He worked as a salesman for the insurance company that sold the life insurance. He befriended the victim, got her to "adopt" him, forged his real parents approval, sold her the huge policy then killed her. He will not be missed.
falseflagsteve
Mr Kipling
If what you say is correct, then the gap is indeed a cad and an absolute bounder. A total bad egg who couldn’t handle the repercussions of his beastly criminal activity
Stil unsure why he was able to commit suicide, I thought those detained in police stations were monitored on 24 hr CCTV, or is it malfunction like Mr Epstein’s?