Suspect’s acquaintance in the case of the dead body stuffed with concrete in Yao City, Osaka, told his “true face.

Shouting and Yakking
The incident was discovered when the manager of this housing complex found a wardrobe case stuffed with concrete in a closet and reported it to the police. Initially, however, the police determined that there was no incident and told the displaced resident to contact them. When the manager again consulted the Yao Police Station because he could not contact the evicted resident, the police officer noticed a slight odor coming from the concrete, and the incident was discovered.
The father of the evicted resident, Iimori’s suspect, is currently in a welfare facility, and the police contacted Iimori, who made a statement about the incident to a voluntary investigation. The wardrobe case was examined and a white skeletonized body of a child, approximately 1 meter tall, was found inside, and on March 1, the suspect was arrested on suspicion of abandoning the body.
On March 1, he was arrested on suspicion of dumping the body. We were able to speak with a person who knew the suspect for a long time.
He was always a bit of a rascal, but I think his personality has become more mild-mannered in the past 10 years or so. He is not the type of person who usually talks volubly, and he doesn’t talk much. But he looked here and there and was very attentive. He leaked that his family relations were complicated. On the other hand, since he met his current common-law wife, he has been having a good time. 5 years ago, he used to drive around in a van, going from place to place, but after the van broke down, he never bought another car and switched to a bicycle as his transportation.
He had a burly build and looked like a gorilla, but when I told him that he had lost weight in the past few years, he said, ‘I’m on a diet. He had not been working recently, and I wondered how he was making a living. It seems he was living with his common-law wife and her mother, but I don’t know much more than that, and never in my wildest dreams did I think he would do something like this.
On the other hand, he continues, “When he lost his temper, it was a very dangerous thing to do.
I used to go out drinking with some people, and if I didn’t like something, I would yell and complain, regardless of whether I was the waiter or not. If there was no one to stop me, I would sometimes try to punch the person I was talking to.
I thought he had calmed down,” he said.
Was Iimori’s calmness a sign that he had matured as a person and had settled down, or did he stay quiet because he was afraid that his crime would be exposed? The police are investigating the girl’s murder as well. The police are also investigating the whereabouts of the Iimori suspect’s sister, the girl’s mother, to see if she actually exists.

Interview, Photography, Writing: Takuma Arimura