A man in his 70s and his 44-year-old daughter were found dead in a mountainous area of Kumamoto City in Kyushu, on Tuesday night, in what police believe was a murder-suicide.
Police said they received a call from a woman at around 7 p.m. saying that her husband and daughter were missing, Kyodo News reported. At around 11:40 p.m., the family car was spotted parked on a mountain road.
In the front passenger seat was a woman who had been strangled to death, police said. About 50 meters away, police found the woman’s father hanging from a. tree.
Police believe the father killed his daughter and then hanged himself. There were no signs of the car having been forcibly stopped or that anyone else had ben at the scene, police said.
© Japan Today
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sakurasuki
Why is she being left behind?
nosuke
What were the motivations of this murder suicide? Did father murder his daughter against her will or the opposite
Yasuragi
She...hung her father and then strangled herself to death?
garypen
I wonder if the daughter had some medical issue or disability that might make the father somehow feel he was performing an act of mercy, or perhaps a misguided attempt to help his wife who may have been her main caregiver.
As usual, a little more detail in these articles would help to understand the very basic info we are usually given.
Alan Bogglesworth
You n Japan, these stories are way to common for my liking…
CaptDingleheimer
Sad. Sounds like it was a voluntary "murder" perhaps?
Kumagaijin
That was my first thought. She had some disability. Obviously the women still lived at home with her parents, but thats fairly normal in Japan. Choking an adult to death wouldn't be the easiest thing to do inside a car unless they had a disability.
I do understand the need for more detail, but if it was written that the daughter was disabled, people would say "Why is that important?" You just can't win these days.
garypen
I think more people would find that info helpful than not. It's pertinent to the story, unlike the irrelevant employment info that's usually provided.
Trapped
Garypen, now you've got me interested in his employed status.
louisferdinandc
Trapped, if he was unemployed it would have been written on the first line as usual. Retired is the most likely status, or the current job would have been mentioned in the second or third paragraph. Which is also why we can assume the daughter had some disability, or her job (or lack thereof) would have been indicated as well for sure. We need to use a Sherlock Holmes approach to understand what actually might have happened based on the information included or not in the article and on the usual writing standards and omissions of the journal.