HYOGO (TR) – Following the arrest earlier this month of a 62-year-old male workplace employee from Nishinomiya City for dumping the physique of an grownup girl in Sumoto City, regulation enforcement has confirmed that the physique is that of the suspect’s spouse.
Hyogo Prefectural Police mentioned on Tuesday that the physique is that of the 70-year-old spouse of Shigeru Shimizu, studies Mainichi Broadcasting System (Aug. 19).
At round 12:30 p.m. on August 7, a person on a bicycle found the physique, bare and mendacity face-down, on the facet of a street in Yuracho on Awaji Island. Another passerby then alerted police.
Upon his arrest on August 9, Shimizu admitted to costs of abandoning a corpse. He mentioned, “I killed my wife at home and transported her in my car.”
According to police, Shimizu is suspected of abandoning the physique between August 2 and seven.
During his give up on the Nishinomiya Police Station on August 8, Shimizu’s description of the circumstances behind the crime and the scene the place the physique was discovered matched the findings by police. He was arrested at round 12:30 a.m. on August 9.
An post-mortem was carried out on the physique on August 8. However, the reason for demise couldn’t be decided on account of physique’s superior state of decomposition.
Police are persevering with the investigation on suspicion of homicide.