Dead woman found in suitcase on MY footpath going home

[Taro Toporific]

I guess I walked right past this sodai-gomi suitcase on Friday night on the way home. Cre-e-e-e-apy.

Woman found dead in suitcase in Yokohama forest
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 24, 2005
YOKOHAMA -- The body of a woman was found in a suitcase dumped in a forest here, police said.
A manager of the Chigasaki Park in Yokohama's Tsuzuki-ku discovered a silver suitcase left in a forest on Sunday afternoon and tried to lift it, officers said. Because the suitcase was heavy, he opened it and found the body of a woman inside.The woman looked to be 20 to 40 years old and was wearing a purple sweater and jeans ...

[Mels]

Damn Taro, that is creepy. And what a sick person to treat someone like trash. I hope they find this creep soon.

[Ketou]

Have I just become more aware of the news or is the murder rate here going way up?

I remember a few years back an American guy telling how wrong I was about Japans murder rate and that there were only two murders a year.
Maybe he was talking about the murder rate for blind one armed midgets with hemorrhoids.

[sillygirl]

Did you see this?

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

scroll down to crime/accidents bit. Another body in a case!

[Taro Toporific]

Damn Taro, that is creepy. And what a sick person to treat someone like trash. I hope they find this creep soon.

The head nurse of the local ER tells me stories of crimes similar to this happpening in my 'hood (and GuyJean's) all the time. No violent crimes are ever covered in the news. In the same forest during takenoko(bamboo shoot) gathering season, a husband was barbwired to a tree so he could watch his young wife being gang raped. The crime remains unsolved even though everyone knows here knows the bozozoku/biker gang that did it. Sheesh.

[DJEB]

In the same forest during takenoko(bamboo shoot) gathering season, a husband was barbwired to a tree so he could watch his young wife being gang raped. The crime remains unsolved even though everyone knows here knows the bozozoku/biker gang that did it. Sheesh.

Many people don't realise that vigilantism can be gratifying and that motorcycles can burn when gasoline is poured on them and lit. The same thing works with right-wingers' trucks as well.

[Taro Toporific]

The crime remains unsolved even though everyone knows here knows the bozozoku/biker gang that did it. Sheesh.

Many people don't realise that vigilantism can be gratifying and that motorcycles can burn when gasoline is poured on them and lit. .

Of all things, all the kids in the gang turned 20-22 years old this year they stopped riding magically (the same magic that causes all salarymen to put trenchcoats on the same day in the winter). I actually bump into individual former gang members going to their dull jobs now looking looking like gray shells of the their formerly flashy bozozoku selves.
In a way they got their just rewards---they're native zombies of the Land-of-Concrete(tm).

[Taro Toporific]

I guess I walked right past this sodai-gomi suitcase on Friday night on the way home. Cre-e-e-e-apy.
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I just called the ER head nurse who also handles the morgue intake. She explaned to me that I did not walk past the dead body. It was on the opposite end of the park more than 1.5 km away. The body was dumped near the German School for gaijin kids in next to the large Chigasaki-Minami park. Monday, the German kids would have found the body for sure.

[dimwit]

What make everyone assume that it is murder? I am sure that police will be looking into the suicide angle as it involves a lot less paperwork.

[GuyJean]

..crimes similar to this happpening in my 'hood (and GuyJean's) all the time.

Wasn't me..

GJ

[blackcat]

as the story says just a "woman" makes me feel it could be a foreigner...ex human traffick victim...this happened a few years ago when 2 thai women were murdered and thrown into a forest in Mie.

[Captain Japan]

Thai woman hints at involvement in suitcase murder
Mainichi

YOKOHAMA -- A Thai woman arrested for visa violations has hinted at involvement in the death of fellow countrywoman whose body was found stuffed in a suitcase dumped in a park here last month, police said Saturday.

Police are poised to slap charges of illegal disposal of a body on the Thai woman, who they have refused to identify so far.

Another Thai man is believed to have some knowledge of the woman's death and is being sought for questioning about the case.

Police said the body found in the suitcase is believed to have been a Thai woman in her 30s who had been living in Yokohama's Naka-ku at least until the very end of last year....the rest...

[Captain Japan]

Thai woman arrested over suitcase body
Mainichi

YOKOHAMA -- A Thai woman has been arrested for the illegal disposal of a compatriot's body found stuffed in a suitcase dumped in a park here last month, police said.

The unemployed 20-year-old woman was arrested for the illegal disposal of a body.

Police said the woman has told them a 29-year-old Thai man fatally stabbed the 32-year-old Thai woman whose body was found in a park in Tsuzuki-ku on Jan. 21. The man left Japan for Thailand the following day and police are preparing to obtain a warrant for his arrest.

This man was a figure in a money-lending group several Thai nationals in Japan had set up amongst themselves. It is believed the victim was killed because money troubles had erupted within the group, police said....the rest...

[Taro Toporific]

First, I walked into a machine gun driveby in front of a Komagome pachinko parlor. Then, several women got dumped in the park next to my apartment in Yokohama. And now this chimpira with a blond gaijin girlfriend[color="Silver"](s)[/color] gets stabbed down the block from my condo. She-e-e-e-it, these murders keep following me in "safe" Tokyo.

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Man stabbed to death in posh part of Tokyo
Mainichi Daily News, Jan. 26, 2008
A middle-aged man was fatally stabbed in an apartment building in an affluent part of Tokyo on Saturday, police said.
The man, who was stabbed in the back, is believed to have been a 53-year-old male resident of the apartment block in Ota-ku...more...

I guess I walked right past this sodai-gomi suitcase on Friday night on the way home. Cre-e-e-e-apy.

Woman found dead in suitcase in Yokohama forest
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 24, 2005
YOKOHAMA --

[Captain Japan]

Taro,

How do you know you are talking about the same guy who got knifed?

[Taro Toporific]

How do you know you are talking about the same guy who got knifed?

The dead guy was a local "character"---nearly as high profile as me.* He got stabbed diagonally across the tracks from my greengrocer. The Yasai-san and most of my neighbors have been asking me all day about what I know about the dead guy's blond girlfriend.
Sadly, I'm waiting for cops to show up to ask me the same thing. I'm getting the impression that maybe the dead guy's live-in girlfriend may have been Japanese, but the blond girlfriend is the only female that the neighbors and I remember seeing him together with on the street late at night.

*Everybody in the neighborhood is assuming the dead guy is the chimpira who lives in the building where the stabbing occurred, but nobody really knows since this happened at 6:30am.

[Greji]

most of my neighbors have been asking me all day about what I know about the dead guy's blond girlfriend

Why would they ask a guy with no hair for comments on a blond?

[Captain Japan]

Briefly: Body found in abandoned suitcase
Asahi

SHIOYA, Tochigi Prefecture--A woman's decomposing body was found Sunday jammed in a suitcase sealed with adhesive tape and left on a roadside here, police said.

A resident cleaning a road in Shioya's Kazami-Yamada district reported the black, plastic suitcase to police around 10 a.m.

It measures 100 centimeters long, 50 cm wide and 30 cm deep.

The woman, believed to be aged 25 to 35, had been positioned as if she was holding her knees to her chest, police said.(IHT/Asahi: June 3,2008)