Couple arrested after 18-year-old girl found dead in Yamanashi

Sep 01, 2021 | News On Japan

Sep 01, 2021 (Japan Today) - A couple in their 20s were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of disposing of the body of an 18-year-old Tokyo high school girl in Yamanashi Prefecture after she went missing over the weekend, police said.

Shohei Komori, 27, and his wife Izumi, 28, who live in Gunma Prefecture, have admitted to dumping the body of Kana Washino, the Tokyo police said. The couple also said they killed the girl in a storage shed, according to investigative sources.

Komori said he had become acquainted with Washino about two years ago through Twitter, and that his wife became jealous after finding out about it, the sources said. He told investigators he called Washino to meet with him and his wife.

After going missing on Saturday, Washino, a senior at a private high school and a resident of Tokyo's Sumida Ward, was found dead in the storage shed in a mountain area with blood around her chest.

The police said they found four stab wounds on the back of Washino's body as well as a rope and a mark around her neck suggesting she had been strangled. They did not discover any sharp objects likely used in the stabbings.

Source: ANNnewsCH

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