A woman in Japan, 33-year-old Ayumi Ito, was found murdered and dismembered in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan, with her body parts being found by the police.
The 31-year-old murder suspect, Yuki Tsuchiya, admitted to the crime after he was arrested, with the police finding Ayumi’s dismembered body parts in his car and on the balcony of his home.
The gruesome murder reportedly took place on 21 February, and Yuki was arrested on 23 February, 2 days after the murder, according to Fuji News Network.
He admitted to hitting the deceased’s head while in her car and strangling her with a cord, before bringing her dead body to his home and cutting it into pieces.
According to the autopsy report, the woman had died from head trauma and strangulation and was observed to have suffered a “subarachnoid haemorrhage” after being hit in the head with a blunt object.
The man left her body parts on his balcony at his home and in his car after dismembering her.
His neighbours spoke to BHK, a public broadcaster in Japan, saying that they heard banging and rattling noises coming out of his home on the night of 20 February or 21 February.
Yuki lives there with his wife, elderly father and two children.
He was allegedly having an affair with the victim, who was a single mother, before the murder; and had met her in 2022 when they were both part of a committee that seeks to improve the Shizuoka prefecture.
The victim lived in Iwata City, about 2 hours away from the murder suspect’s home.
At the time of writing, the police are investigating.