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Woman arrested over fatal stabbing of 64-year-old husband

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Police in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Sunday arrested a 50-year-old woman on suspicion of fatally stabbing her 64-year-old husband at their home.

According to police, a woman called 110 at 10:30 a.m. on Friday and said her colleague, Akira Kumada, hadn't come to work, TV Asahi reported. Police went to the house and found Kumada, a company executive, lying on a futon in a bedroom on the second floor. There was a knife stuck in his chest. He was taken to hospital where he was later confirmed dead.

In the same room, Kumada’s wife, Saegusa, was sitting against a wall, bleeding from stab wounds to her chest. A bloody kitchen knife was found near her. She was taken to hospital but her wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

Police said Kumada did not have any defensive wounds on his arms or hands and believe he was attacked while sleeping.

The Kumadas live alone and the windows and front door were locked. Furthermore, there were no signs that any of the rooms had been ransacked or searched.

On Sunday, NTV reported that police questioned Kumada’s wife and said she admitted to stabbing her husband and that she had wanted to kill herself as well. Police said she gave no motive for wanting to kill her husband and herself.

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This what happens when couples marry out of interest, not love, and they only live with eachother for mutual benefit. Instead of divorcing, they prefer to stay together out of interest, until the bubble pops up and those kind of things happens.

If you cannot stand your wife/hustband, why th don't you divorce him/her, instead of reaching this kind of melting point??

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DanteKH

This what happens when couples marry out of interest, not love, and they only live with eachother for mutual benefit. Instead of divorcing, they prefer to stay together out of interest, until the bubble pops up and those kind of things happens.

And how would you know thats what the case is?

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What’s with all the knife crime?

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*he was attacked *while sleeping.

Coward of a woman.

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*he was attacked *while sleeping.

Coward of a woman.

WellI guess he should've had poisoned him, as usual the arsenIc love.

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The dead can't talk, they say silence is golden, whatever secrets may have had that maybe the motives for the murder he will take to his grave, and for what reasons she may have committed the crime that he thought she didn't know, she will take them to jail.

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I mean she should've had poisoned hin.

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64, so just a few months off getting his pension. If he's an exec and hit sixty in 2020, its likely he got taishokukin (golden handshake) and barring ex-wife and kids, gambling habit etc, probably didn't have to work. If my time comes then, it'll be regrettable, but I hope its not murder. I've worked too hard for it to end without me getting a retirement.

Wife is 50 and probably menopausal. It can affect ladies in strange ways, including mood shffts, irritability and full on depression. If this couple had any kind of compatibility, they were in a position to enjoy life, not to want to end it. Nice looking house and two cars (shown on tv reports), no kids to stress them out or wind them up. It shouldn't come to this.

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"" There was a knife stuck in his chest. ""

Thank you JT for the precise details of how he was murdered, the more the better!???

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Yiipes, you cannot even get old in peace at home.

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