HYOGO (TR) – A forty five-year-old man serving a life-in-prison time period for the homicide of an elementary college woman in Okayama Prefecture twenty years in the past has hinted involvement in a second case.
In October 2007, Yuzuki Unose, then aged 7, was stabbed within the chest and abdomen by an unknown assailant in entrance of her house in Kakogawa Metropolis, Hyogo Prefecture. The woman, who was within the second grade at elementary college, later died, stories TBS Information (Nov. 7).
Since then, police have been unable to resolve the case, which is being handled as homicide.
Nevertheless, the unnamed man has made an announcement to police that hints at his involvement within the homicide of Unose. He’s at the moment serving a life time period for the homicide of one other woman, aged 9, in Tsuyama Metropolis, Okayama Prefecture in 2004.
In accordance with police, the person has additionally been convicted and sentenced to jail for punching different women within the abdomen in 2000 and 2009.
As well as, there may be rising suspicion amongst investigators that the person might have additionally been concerned in one other incident in Tatsuno Metropolis, Hyogo in September 2006. In that case, one other woman, aged 9, was attacked by a perpetrator with a knife and severely injured.
Investigative sources mentioned that voluntary police questioning started after the decision was finalized within the Okayama case in September final 12 months. Throughout that session, the person initially denied involvement within the different two incidents that occurred in Hyogo Prefecture. It was later revealed that because the questioning continued, nonetheless, that he modified his assertion to confess his involvement.
Police plan to arrest the person quickly on suspicion of tried homicide.