Tokyo: Japanese police said on Thursday that they had arrested a 75-year-old woman who allegedly acknowledged to keep the body of her daughter in a freezer for two decades.
Investigators on Tuesday found the body of an adult woman in a deep freezer at Keiko Mori in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, a local police spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
Mori “said it was her daughter”, Makiko, who was born in 1975 and would be 49 or 50 years old if it was alive, the spokesman said.
“Decay went on,” he added, noting that an autopsy would be performed to determine the cause of death.
Mori came to police on Tuesday with a relative to report that she had kept her body in the freezer.
When investigators visited the house with Mori, they found the body dressed in a T-shirt and underwear, kneeling with his face inside the freezer, the spokesman said.
Mori was arrested on suspicion of giving up a body.
She told investigators that the smell filled the house, so she bought the freezer and placed her daughter’s body inside, according to the spokesman.
Mori had several children, but police did not reveal how many or what they had told investigators about makiko.
She had lived alone since her husband’s death earlier this month, the spokesman said.
