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A man and a woman have been found dead in a hotel in Tokyo in what police believe was a murder-suicide.
Police said the bodies were found in a love hotel in the Kabukicho district of Shinjuku at around 10 p.m. Friday, Sankei Shimbun reported. A hotel employee found the couple and called 110.
Police said the bodies were those of a man in his 20s and a woman in her 30s. The man had several stab wounds to the upper half of his body, while the woman had hanged herself. Police believe the woman killed the man and then herself.
The man, clad in a black T-shirt and underwear, was lying on his back on the floor beside the bed, while the woman, fully dressed in black, was hanging from a rope tied to a curtain rod. A blood-stained knife and gardening shears were found on the bed.
Police said the couple checked into the hotel on Thursday night. Nobody else was seen going into the room, nor had the room been ransacked, police said.
The hotel is about 200 meters from Shinjuku-Shinjuku-sanchome Station on the Marunouchi subway line.
© Japan Today
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LearJet
I think he thought they were going to get very kinky and weird, but got more than he bargained for.......
Zaphod
Yes, with one stabbed and another one hanged, I would agree with the suspicion "murder-suicide".
starpunk
It certainly would be a scary sight to behold,
Mark
She wanted it all for herself, selfish lunatic.
Zaphod
Sal Affist
Love hotels are pretty much automated, and I would think any gardening shears would be in bag.
garypen
What were their occupations?
Mark
Who said that women can't be just as brutal ?
noriahojanen
I have no knowledge about their backgrounds which are missing in the report. But I dare say that the couple are so young that they could have avoided this life end.
RoccoL
Simian Lane is right. Life changingly traumatic for the poor staff that had to deal with it. Respect to people who work in these jobs.
RINFO
Gruesome, another place that will be haunted in Japan and perhaps unable to rent out.
Pls provide hotel name and room number.
Harry_Gatto
Clever, very good.
snowymountainhell
Something is ‘not right’, not so ‘*cut & dry murder-suicide*’ with this one.
A knife and shears, multiple stab wounds to the upper body (chest and abdomen?); yet, victim was ‘trouser-less’, ... ?
@Bungle 5:27pm Were these ‘sasuke’, loopers or pruners?
Ramzel
Yeah cause hotels always frisk their guests and go through their belongings at check in.
Sal Affist
Was the staff not suspicious when this couple checked in with their gardening shears?