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Woman found beaten to death in bathtub at home; eldest son missing

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A 52-year-old woman was found beaten to death in the bathtub of her home in Gosen, Niigata Prefecture, police said Friday, adding that her 20-year-old son is missing.

According to police, the body of Noriko Oyanagi, a company employee, was found at around 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Sankei Shimbun reported that police found the body after being notified by her company that she had not come to work on Tuesday and Wednesday. Police said Oyanagi's body was naked and lying face down in the bathtub and that she had been beaten about the head several times with a blunt instrument.

Police said Oyanagi lived with her son whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Oyanagi's car is also missing.

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D@mn, how can you do that to your mother. No mention of the father makes me think it was only the two of them.. She was probably working her arse off trying to make ends meet, and her slug of a son got pissed when she told him to get a job.

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If the son is missing and the car is gone the indications are he murdered her. My mother was abusive and drank excessively but I never murdered her. Hope the Police find him soon.

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"D@mn, how can you do that to your mother."

@ sensei258, Apparently They don't have the same values and by the number of thumbs down, also common towards other similar world views.... and is asymptomatic. Values of denial, window dressing, obfuscation, and draconian orwellianisn-censureship , thus receives benighted puffery. ...according to Joseph Grew US Foreign Service officer. circa 1945.

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They don't have the same values

Unless the down votes are for the assumption that the son killed her. It's also possible he was witness to the act and too frightened to stay back. Going purely by the info available in this article.

In any case, sorry for her.

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@pudus: The downvotes are for the moronic assumptions on not just on the son's guilt, but also on his motivations and the sequence of events, and the guilt of the father when absolutely none of this is known yet. One of the silliest comments I've seen

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