Mystery of the Mutilated Body Found In a Luggage in Wakayama Pier
A man's drowned body was found nearby.
The details of the “dismembered body case” in Wakayama City, which are too puzzling to be solved, are causing a stir.
The drowned body of a middle-aged man was found at the mouth of the Kino River that flows through the city at around 7:00 in the morning of January 18. A man who was fishing on the shore called 110, saying, “There is a person floating in the water. Later, a male jumper, pants, and shoes were also found near the Kasai Bridge, located approximately 2.5 km upstream from where the drowned body was found.
The police initially assumed that a middle-aged man had entered the river in the middle of winter and had been swept downstream. However, the case took a sharp turn from there.
“Later on, the police found a luggage on a pier in the center of the Kawanishi Bridge. When they opened it, they found the mutilated body of a woman inside. As a result of the autopsy, the woman was estimated to be petite and around 20 to 40 years old” (reporter from the society section of a national newspaper).
A rented car was also parked near the bridge. According to footage left by a nearby security camera, the car was parked there around 10:30 p.m. on January 17, the day before the drowned body was discovered, and was left there until January 18.
“When the police examined the car, they again found a luggage. And inside it, too, was the mutilated body of a woman. It is believed to be the same woman as the dead body in the luggage that was on the piers of the Kawanishi Bridge.”
The rental car was rented in Wakayama City, and a driver’s license that is believed to belong to the man who was found drowned was also left in the car. It is believed that there was some kind of relationship between this man and the mutilated body, but the police have yet to release details.
The possibility that there are other people involved cannot be dismissed, and the police are investigating the case very carefully. The speculation is that the man killed the woman, dismembered her body, put it in a carrying case, and then carried it to the bridge for disposal in the river. After dumping the body, he may have fall into the water himself.
If so, however, it remains extremely puzzling. Why did the man drop the luggage on the bridge pier instead of in the river? And why did he leave the other luggage. It is possible that he dropped the first luggage on the pier by mistake and fell into the river himself in a hurry to dispose it.
What is the truth? Local residents are hoping for an early resolution to this shocking case, in which a mutilated body was found in a luggage.
