http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20070105a1.htmlFriday, Jan. 5, 2007
Man admits dismembering his sister, 20 Kyodo News
Police arrested a 21-year-old cram school student Thursday after he admitted killing and dismembering his 20-year-old sister, a junior college student whose cut-up corpse was found the previous night in his room in their home in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward.
The body of Azumi Muto, the daughter of dentist Mamoru Muto, 62, who has a clinic on the first floor of the family's three-story home, had been cut into more than 10 parts, police said, identifying the suspect as her brother, Yuki.
Her head, arms and legs also bore signs of other assault-related injuries.
The body, packed in four plastic bags, was found by the victim's mother around 9 p.m. Wednesday in the brother's room on the third floor, police said. The body parts had no clothing on them.
"I killed my sister because I got mad at her," the brother was quoted by police sources as saying in interrogation.
The suspect got angry because the victim criticized his poor academic performance and taunted him by saying she had a dream but he didn't, the sources said.
The brother told police that he cut off her head, arms and legs with a saw and a kitchen knife, the sources said.
During questioning, he cried and apologized, they added. The mother, who was out of town visiting relatives until late Tuesday night, last spoke with her daughter Saturday afternoon through the intercom at the front door as she left on a trip with her eldest son, police said.
According to police, the suspect was home Sunday but left in the afternoon to attend a 12-day session scheduled to run through Jan. 11 at his Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, cram school, which is geared for aspiring dentists and doctors.
"I am really surprised because (the arrest) was out of the blue. I saw nothing strange in his behavior," said a worker at the cram school, where police found the suspect early Thursday.
The gruesome find is Tokyo's third in two months -- the upper torso of an Asian man was found near JR Shinjuku Station last month, and his lower torso was discovered later in the garden of a vacant house in Shibuya. DNA analysis determined the body parts belong to the same man, but his identity remains unknown and the head is missing.
Muto lived in the house with her father, 57-year-old mother, who is also a dentist, and the two brothers, police said.
The mother and the 23-year-old other brother went on a trip Saturday afternoon and were later joined by Mamoru Muto, who left Sunday night to join them, police said. The three returned home Tuesday night.
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