OSAKA (TR) – Osaka Prefectural Police investigating the grisly homicide of a 53-year-old lady whose physique was discovered dumped on a barge in Osaka City have recovered the corpse of her lacking husband from the close by sea, investigative sources revealed, reviews TBS News (July 25).
On July 15, the physique of Mayumi Yokozeki, a part-time employee from Minato Ward, was found on a supplies barge moored below the Namihaya Ohashi bridge in Taisho Ward.
According to police, Yokozeki was discovered carrying mild inexperienced pajamas. Both of her legs had been damaged, her face confirmed indicators of blood congestion, and the pores and skin round her neck was severely discolored.
An post-mortem later decided the reason for loss of life to be asphyxiation. She had been strangled with a string-like object and is believed to have died round midnight on July 15. Based on the situation of the physique, police instantly launched a murder investigation.
Search for husband
Authorities had been desperately trying to find Yokozeki’s husband, with whom she lived, after being unable to succeed in him following the invention of his spouse’s physique. Sources now say his corpse was discovered floating within the waters close to the crime scene.
Further tying him to the incident, a car registered within the husband’s title was discovered deserted close to the placement the place Yokozeki’s physique was found.
Yokozeki was final seen alive on the evening of July 12 — three days earlier than her physique was discovered —when a colleague confirmed she had clocked out and left her office.
Police are actually fastidiously investigating the sequence of occasions that led to the deaths of the couple, trying into any potential home hassle or motives which will have triggered the deadly incident.

