A 48-year-old woman has been arrested after the body of his mother was discovered in their former apartment.
Yumi Yoshino from Tokyo told police that she hid the body in the freezer after she found her dead as she ‘didn’t want to move out’ of the flat they shared.
According to Japan Times, a cleaner found the body in a freezer hidden in a closet after the daughter was forced to leave the place.
Yoshino reportedly told officers that she hid her mother’s body as she feared she would have to leave the apartment.
Her mother, who was in her 60s, had reportedly signed the lease on the municipal housing complex unit.
Police said that the mother’s body was bent to fit in the freezer but they found no visible wounds. An autopsy also could not determine the cause and time of death of the woman.
Yoshino had been ordered to leave the apartment in mid-January as she couldn’t pay her rent.
She was arrested in a hotel in Chiba city on Friday.
In 2019, police were left horrified while carrying out a welfare check on an elderly couple after they discovered not only the remains of the 69-year-old man but also the body of his 75-year-old wife.
Police visited the property in Utah and found a note written by Paul Mathers, which said that his wife Jeanne Souron-Mathers had nothing to do with his demise.
Officers said Mr. Mathers was terminally ill and was likely he passed away sometime between February 4, 2009 and March 8, 2009.
“I’ve been here 13 years – this is one of the strangest cases. We’ve never had anything like this,” said Sergeant Jeremy Hansen of the Tooele Police Department.
Last year, an elderly man in India was rescued after his family members put him in a freezer as they thought he had already passed away.
Fortunately, a staff member from a company providing the freezer box noticed the man moving.
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