OKAYAMA (TR) – Police in Okayama City have launched an investigation right into a suspected murder-suicide after an aged couple was discovered lifeless inside their house final week.
Shuichi Doi, 89, and his 84-year-old spouse, Masako, had been found deceased at their residence in Minami Ward following a wellness examine on May 1.
At roughly 3:20 p.m., a care supervisor attending to Masako alerted authorities after noticing a regarding irregularity. “The delivered
Officers arriving on the property made discovered their our bodies. Masako was discovered lifeless on a mattress in a first-floor bed room. Shuichi was found collapsed in a first-floor hallway with a rope wrapped round his neck.
A subsequent post-mortem decided that Masako died from asphyxiation. Given the foul play indicators, investigators suspect she was strangled and are treating the incident as a possible murder-suicide perpetrated by her husband.