OSAKA (TR) – Following the invention of the corpse of a 78-year-old girl within the rest room of her house in Sakai City final month, police have revealed that the case is being a handled as homicide, studies TV Asahi (Feb. 5).
On the morning of January 30, the son of Keiko Kinoshita, who lived alone within the house in Nishi Ward, discovered her lifeless within the rest room.
Kinoshita was discovered bare within the bathtub, which was filled with water, on the time of the invention. The outcomes of an post-mortem revealed the reason for demise to be drowning. Both of her arms and neck had been fractured, police mentioned.
The accidents to her arms are believed to have been sustained whereas she was defending herself.
There had been a number of different accidents on Kinoshita’s physique that seem to have been sustained earlier than she died.
The house, a two-story construction, is positioned in a quiet residential space about 1 kilometer west of JR Tsukuno Station.
Police are conscious of no previous incidents involving Kinoshita. As nicely, there is no such thing as a proof to recommend {that a} knife or different weapon was used within the crime.
“Especially the neck bones, they don’t break without a great deal of force,” Seizo Sasaki, a former Saitama Prefectural Police detective, tells the community. “Police are assessing the extent of the force required to break them, and that’s the main reason they’re investigating it as a murder case.”

