Mob Hit?

[Greji]

Try rotten.com. I warn you that the contents are pretty gory.

Been there done that!

I was talking about things like amputated legs, hands, arms, feet, etc., but an amputated neck?

[Captain Japan]

Is there something I'm missing here? What on earth could possibly make the police suspect the owner of a sawed off leg might be the victim of a crime?

Police to conduct autopsy on human leg found floating in Tokyo river
Mainichi

Police are poised to conduct an autopsy on a human leg found floating in a river in downtown Tokyo, officials said.

At around 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, a left leg that had been severed from the thigh was found floating on the surface of a branch of the Tsukuda River in the Tsukuda district of Chuo-ku.

Local police are set to examine how it was severed from its body.

Noting that many boats pass through the area as it is connected with the Sumida River, investigators pointed to the possibility that the leg was severed by the propeller of one of the boats.

[Greji]

Police to conduct autopsy on human leg found floating in Tokyo riverMainichi
Quote:
Police are poised to conduct an autopsy on a human leg found floating in a river in downtown Tokyo, officials said.

At around 4:10 p.m. on Tuesday, a left leg that had been severed from the thigh was found floating on the surface of a branch of the Tsukuda River in the Tsukuda district of Chuo-ku.

Local police are set to examine how it was severed from its body.

Noting that many boats pass through the area as it is connected with the Sumida River, investigators pointed to the possibility that the leg was severed by the propeller of one of the boats.
Mainichi

Are they assuming the Queen Mary, or maybe the USS Kitty Hawk was transiting the Sumida River and how do you conduct an Autopsy on a leg? You can examine the wound to try to determine how it was caused, but an autopsy?

[Captain Japan]

Are they assuming the Queen Mary, or maybe the USS Kitty Hawk was transiting the Sumida River and how do you conduct an Autopsy on a leg? You can examine the wound to try to determine how it was caused, but an autopsy?

GB, if you go back in this thread a bit you'll find:

Police suspect that his right leg was severed by a boat propeller while his body was drifting in the river and that the other part of his body was washed away into Tokyo Bay.

[Greji]

GB, if you go back in this thread a bit you'll find:

Capt'n, the question is an autopsy. How do you autopsy a leg? Fillet it? Make lamp chops?

You examine a limb. You perform an autopsy on a corpse.
That's all.

However, I still can't help but wonder at the comparison of the size of a propellor large enough to take of a leg in comparison with the size of the Sumidagawa boat traffic. Accept for out at the mouth of the river by the ocean, we're talking garbage scows and yakkatabune.

[Captain Japan]

Woman accused of killing husband, sawing up body admits to charges in court
Mainichi

A woman accused of clubbing her husband to death with a wine bottle and then sawing up his body and throwing it away admitted to the accusations as her trial opened in the Tokyo District Court on Thursday.

The woman, Kaori Mihashi, 33, is charged with murdering her 30-year-old husband Yusuke, and damaging and dumping his body. Her lawyers have brought into question her responsibility for the crime, saying she had suffered post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after being subjected to domestic violence over a long period of time, and was either mentally incompetent or of diminished mental capacity at the time of the killing.

Public prosecutors said that after getting married in 2003, Mihashi and her husband continually argued. They said that Mihashi exploded after her husband came back home at 4 a.m. on the day they were to talk about a divorce, and decided to kill him. After the murder, she cut up his body and threw away the parts separately so he couldn't be identified, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors argued that there had been no one-sided violence against Mihashi, and said she did not show any characteristic symptoms of PTSD, adding that she could be held criminally responsible for the crime.

Hearings in the case are expected to last until about February next year, after a psychiatric evaluation of Mihashi is carried out.

According to the charges against her, Mihashi clubbed her husband to death with a wine bottle as he was sleeping at their home in Tokyo's Shibuya-ku in December 2006. She then cut up his body with a saw, and discarded the body parts in places including a road in Shinjuku-ku, the indictment says.

[succubusqueen]

"A woman accused of clubbing her husband to death with a wine bottle.."

He had a very soft head...

[Captain Japan]

Fisherman hooks human skull
Mainichi

HANDA, Aichi -- A fisherman hooked a gruesome catch from a pier here when he reeled in a human skull, coast guard officers said.

At around 11:40 a.m. on Tuesday, police received a report from a man saying, "I caught a human skull while fishing, but it fell back into the sea after my fishing line snapped." Police alerted the local office of the Japan Coast Guard (JCG).

JCG officers searched the sea off the central pier of Kinuura Port in Handa and found a skull on the bottom of the 5-meter-deep sea. Officers who examined the skull said it was that of a woman in her 30s to 40s, adding that she died more than half a year ago.

Aichi Medical University is poised to examine the skull in a bid to identify the woman and determine the cause of her death.

[Greji]

Fisherman hooks human skull
Mainichi

Maybe Aichi has found an answer about what to do with their FG problem!

[Captain Japan]

Psychiatrics say woman accused of killing husband, dismembering his body was insane
Mainichi

Two psychiatrists commissioned to conduct evaluations on a woman standing trial for murdering her husband and dismembering his body told a court on Monday she was insane.

If the court upholds their evaluations, it will deem that Kaori Mihashi, 33, cannot be held responsibile for the incident and acquit her.

Kazumasa Kimura, head of Kokoro-no Clinic Shakujii, who examined Mihashi's mental condition at the request of her defense lawyers, pointed out that she was mentally unstable because she was abused by her husband.

"She was unable to escape from her husband Yusuke who regularly assaulted her. She was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the time the incident occurred," Kimura told the Tokyo District Court.

Yoshiharu Kin, a psychiatrist at the National Center for Neurology and Psychiatry, who conducted a psychiatric evaluation on her at the request of prosecutors, also said she was suffering from PTSD as a result of domestic violence.

The two psychiatrists told Presiding Judge Masaya Kawamoto that, at the time of the incident, the defendant had lost her ability to control her own actions.

Her defense counsel has claimed that she was unable to tell right from wrong because she suffered from hallucinations.

Mihashi is under indictment for fatally bashing her husband Yusuke, who was then 30, on the head with a bottle at their Tokyo home in December 2006. She then dismembered his body with a saw and dumped the body parts in various places in the ward.

[Captain Japan]

Human leg found in Shiga Prefecture's Lake Biwa

OMIHACHIMAN, Shiga -- A human leg was found on the shores of Lake Biwa here early on Saturday morning, police said.

Two anglers found the leg on the shore of the lake in Omihachiman at around 5:40 a.m. and called police.

Officers say it is a 68-centimeter-long part from thigh to ankle, adding that it appears to have been severed from the body about a month ago.

Local police are trying to identify the leg's owner.

[Iraira]

Human leg found in Shiga Prefecture's Lake Biwa

I'm getting this perverse Cinderella image of the cops going around grabbing folks off the street to see if the leg fits.
Must figure out how to say "If it does not fit, you must acquit!", in Japanese.

[Captain Japan]

Severed head found floating on Lake Biwa
Mainichi

HIGASHIOMI, Shiga -- The severed head of a male has been found floating on Lake Biwa, with investigators confirming it belonged to the same person whose legs were earlier found nearby, police said.

Police said the dismembered body parts belonged to a man aged somewhere from 50 to 60 who died of suffocation and was then mutilated, with his severed remains dumped into the lake.

Investigators said the man is estimated to have died somewhere from one to three weeks ago. They added that the man also had a small lump in his left cheek.

Police said two parts of the man's legs were found separately in Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, on Saturday, while an angler spotted the severed head bobbing near a breakwater on Lake Biwa on Tuesday. Police conducted DNA tests on the severed remains and concluded from the results that the parts all belonged to the same person.

[Greji]

Severed head found floating on Lake Biwa
Mainichi

Did they fit the head to the legs to also determine this. I mean if all you got is the dude's noggin and his two legs and no trunk i.e. lungs, I would wonder if they are spot on about him being suffocated?

I mean like an Acme chain saw applied to the neck can sometimes seriously interfere with breathing even after you've shot the guy.

[Kuang_Grade]

Well, according to the crime shows on TV, petechial hemorrhaging in the eyes is a sign of suffocation, so if you only had the head, it may be possible to make to make that judgement.

[Greji]

Well, according to the crime shows on TV, petechial hemorrhaging in the eyes is a sign of suffocation, so if you only had the head, it may be possible to make to make that judgement.

That's also possible with drug overdose damage and probably, a right hook....

[Behan]

[Greji]

The body of an apparently murdered Pakistan man was found in the trunk of a car parked in a park in Niigata City.

I can just see the police report now! Furyou FG accidentally suffocates while trying to steal a car by sneaking in through the trunk....

[Behan]

I can just see the police report now! Furyou FG accidentally suffocates while trying to steal a car by sneaking in through the trunk....

Sounds just like what the keystone cops would do.

[IkemenTommy]

The body of an apparently murdered Pakistan man was found in the trunk of a car parked in a park in Niigata City.

Are you sure it wasn't an apparent suicide?

[Mulboyne]

Senior gang member shot dead in Roppongi
Gomiuri Shimbun

Two people have now been arrested in connection with this case, according to the Yomiuri. (Japanese)

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