TOKYO: Japanese authorities announced on Thursday that they had taken into custody a 75-year-old lady who allegedly admitted to storing her daughter’s remains in a freezer for 20 years.
According to a local police spokesman speaking on condition of anonymity, investigators discovered an adult woman’s body in a deep freezer inside Keiko Mori’s residence in Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, on Tuesday.
According to the spokesperson, Mori “said it was her daughter,” Makiko, who was born in 1975 and would be 49 or 50 years old if she were still living.
He went on to say, “Decay was advancing,” adding that an autopsy will be performed to ascertain the cause of death.
On Tuesday, Mori and a family member went to the police station to confess that she had stored the body in the freezer.
