The body of an unidentified woman was found inside a plastic bag and covered with a bedsheet in the room of a love hotel in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, on Thursday night, police said Friday.
According to police, at around 8:30 p.m., a part-time male employee entered the second-floor room, which was unlocked, to clean it and found the body on the floor next to a bed. Fuji TV quoted police as saying the woman had been strangled to death.
Police said the woman appeared to be in her late 30s or early 40s. The hotel said a man checked into the room at around 3:40 p.m. on Thursday. Security camera footage showed a woman entering the room at 5:50 p.m. The man then left the hotel at 7:40 p.m., police said.
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Vince Black
Should be easy enough to get a shot of the guy. Need to call the front desk before you leave so they can unlock the doors so they have a record of that, and payment too. (I've been to ALOT of love hotels so I know the procedure) they didn't think it weird that just a man left the room?
Shaolin74
easy enough to catch this scumbag with all the cameras in love hotels.
@ Vince Black Not sure what love hotels you visit, but my wife and I have been to a fair few and none of them require calling the front desk to unlock the doors when you leave. You unlock them yourself and just hand the key in at the front desk when you leave.
Disillusioned
Perhaps it is time for Japan to take the anonymity out of these seedy places. No ID, no room.
garypen
That statement is not as impressive as you probably think it is.
commanteer
People often leave at separate times, for many good reasons. The body was found 50 minutes after the man left.
Jim Buffalo
More importantly, where did he get a large enough plastic bag to stuff a body into? You don't just pick this up at the local conbini. So...he just packed it in his man-purse on the way to do the crime? That is Hannibal Lecter creepy to know this type of character is cruising through the public trans system here.
WilliB
Vince Black:
If you have been to "ALOT of love hotels", you should know that the procedure is not the same everywhere. The degree of automation varies.
Bugle Boy of Company B
I'm personally against that, but it would certainly help solve this case.
WilliB
Disillusioned:
That would not prevent murders. A love hotel is actually not a very good location to conceal a murder, since there is guaranteed to video footage of the perp entering and leaving, plus time stamp. Not something you can say about your average crime site.
Norman Goodman
There is always someone ready to throw all freedom away whenever anything happens. Even with all that freedom Japan has far fewer murders than most countries with less freedom. Take away more freedom? Hard pass.
NCIS Reruns
Not to mention semen, hairs and other traces of DNA deposited by the perp.
Bugle Boy of Company B
Why would there be semen?
Jory Boling
"Not to mention semen, hairs and other traces of DNA deposited by the perp"
Pretty sure the semen, hairs, and DNA picked up at a love hotel is gonna be the perp plus the 1000 earlier visitors!
Bugle Boy of Company B
Well, THAT sounds like a party! (Ewwww...)
garypen
Not necessarily the ones found on/in the victim's body.
WilliB
I think that would be much more an issue in a regular hotel. Love hotels are designed to be cleaned easily, and the cleaning crews are pretty famous for their efficiency. Your typical bored cleaning cart pusher in a normal hotel is more likely to clean everything, especially considering the ridiculous amount of soft fabric in there.
Cielo Suarez Yabut
May i know the identity and nationality of the victim?