May 15, 2007
Headless Corpse Gives Credibility to Teen’s Story
Stumble it!A Japanese teenager strolled into his local police station in Aizu, Wakamatsu City in Fukushima today carrying a severed head in a bag. He then claimed he’d killed his mother.
The boy then led officers to his home, and directed them to a headless body on a futon. He told the police he killed her while she slept, adding “It didn’t matter who I killed.”
According to police spokesperson Hisayoshi Watanabe, the police have not yet determined that the head belongs to the teen’s mother. “If true, it’s horrifying,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki.
The teenager has been arrested and charged with murder. According to the Kyodo news agency, the 17-year-old boy attends a Fukushima high school.
This is the latest incident in a spate of bizarre crimes in Japan involving dismemberment. On Monday, a human leg was found in Tokyo and earlier this year a woman was convicted of cutting up her husband. Last year, an unemployed man cut up his mother and abandoned her body in concrete-filled buckets in the back yard.
Susumu Oda, a criminal psychology expert at Japan’s Tezukayamagakuin University said, “There have been a high number of incidents involving dismembered bodies and I certainly think there is a chain reaction going on.”
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