Police said Thursday that the bodies of two women found in an apartment in the Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa appear to be a mother and her daughter.
According to TBS, the two bodies were found on Wednesday afternoon. Welfare officials and police discovered the bodies just before 6 p.m. after not having heard from the two residents in awhile. Police said the occupants were a woman in her 90s, who was suffering from dementia, and her daughter who was in her 60s.
According to police, there were no external wounds on either body. The two women likely died about a month ago, police said, adding that autopsies will be conducted to determine the cause of death.
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Elbuda Mexicano
Just way too sad!! RIP poor ladies next door in Tachikawa.
DoLittleBeLate
Probably murder/suicide, daughter too exhausted to take care of ailing mother and no other relatives. They couldn't asked for help? Oh yeah, that's right... TIJ.
hot_dog_dynasty
I am grateful that they will conduct autopies and have not bothered to release a best guess to the press. It saves us a lot of useless conjecture from people who will act like the best guess is iron law.
garomakaikishi
what again? what are the welfare people doing?
jonobugs
There is a possibility that the daughter had some sort of accident and without the daughter to take care of the mother, the mother could have easily died soon after. Poor ladies!
Fadamor
@DoLittleBeLate,
Given the age of the daughter and the mental state of the mother, I'd say that probably the daughter had a stroke/heart attack and the mother succumbed when no one was able to feed her. People with dementia often don't KNOW to ask for help.
Alphaape
Or the opposite of this. The daughter could have somehow killed the mother with an overdose and then killed herself out of guilt for doing so. It seems you often see these sad cases here in Japan where the burden for caring for an elderly family member takes a huge toll on the caregiver, and they resort to desperate measures.
NOtice it was welfare officials who thought something was up because of not hearing from either of the two, not family members reporting that they have not heard from them. My guess is that these two had only each other, and the pain that the daughter was feeling for the mother just got too much to bear.
RIP to both.
nath
It just seems like if you really feel bad, you could take the extra few seconds to type "Rest in Peace" instead of "RIIIIIIP"
Bobby Smith
More likely carbon monoxide poisoning from using their kerosene heater during the winter.