My mother is dead”…The true face of a 53-year-old woman who dumped the body of her 68-year-old mother-in-law under the floor of her apartment, “emaciated and tired.

My mother is dead.”

It was after 10:00 a.m. on April 28 when the police received a 110 call from a woman who seemed upset.

On the following day, April 29, the Saitama Prefectural Police Urawa Higashi Station arrested Michiko Watanabe, 53, an unemployed woman, on suspicion of abandoning a corpse. She allegedly left the body of her mother-in-law, Katsuko Watanabe, 68, who lived with her in an apartment in Midori Ward, Saitama City, under the floor. The suspect has admitted to the crime, saying, “I hid the body under the floor.

The apartment was a maisonette type with two floors, and a family of six lived there. Katsuko, her eldest daughter in her 40s, her second daughter in her 30s, her eldest son in his 40s, the suspect Michiko, the eldest son’s wife, and their son in his 20s.

Katsuko was last seen on the morning of April 22. In the morning of April 28, the eldest son found Katsuko’s body in an inspection slot under the kitchen floor on the first floor. The eldest daughter called 110.

Her hair was shaggy and she looked tired.

Katsuko-san was lying with her clothes on. There were no visible external injuries, and it is believed that several days had already passed since her death. The autopsy revealed that the cause of death was asphyxiation due to pressure on the neck.

According to a resident of the neighborhood, the suspect had been living with her family for about 10 years. According to residents in the neighborhood, they did not get along with their neighbors very well, and Katsuko in particular had hardly been seen for two or three years. She may have been in poor health.

Michiko was taking care of Katsuko’s personal belongings. When residents occasionally saw her, she was said to have shaggy hair and to look gaunt. He looked very tired.

The police are investigating the case with an eye toward a murder charge.

The police are investigating the case with murder charges in mind. If Michiko strangled Katsuko to death, how did she do it without being noticed by the large number of family members? Even though the body had been left for several days, did anyone notice the strange odor in the warmer weather? …… The suspect Michiko has admitted to abandoning the body, but her motive and circumstances remain unclear.”

The site is a quiet residential area about 3.5 km from JR Higashiurawa Station. It is relatively safe and has many parks and schools. According to the police, there were no reports of trouble from the Watanabe family.