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<h2><span class="strongInContent"> &#8216;Suspected suffocation death&#8217;</span></h2>
<p> The case has reached a major turning point.</p>
<p> On May 6, the Kyoto Prefectural Police re-arrested Yuki Adachi, 37, the father of Yūki Adachi, on suspicion of murder for killing Yūki in a public restroom in Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture, in connection with the abandonment of the body of Yūki Adachi, then 11, who attended Sonobe Elementary School in Nantan City.</p>
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<p> The re-arrested suspect is suspected of strangling Yuki to death in a public restroom near his home on the morning of March 23, the day Yuki went missing. According to the prefectural police, the suspect</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I strangled him to death with both hands.</span></p>
<p> The persistence of the investigators finally bore fruit.</p>
<p> The persistence of the investigators is finally bearing fruit. Since Yuki&#8217;s body had no noticeable external injuries and a long time had passed since his death, the result of the autopsy was &#8220;cause of death unknown. At that point, the suspect admitted to the murder, but if his statement was overturned at trial, it would have been difficult to maintain the trial.</p>
<p> Therefore, the authorities searched for other evidence to support the murder, and at the same time, they conducted a &#8220;hit-and-run&#8221; investigation in the presence of Yuhki to solidify the circumstantial evidence.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Just then, a detailed expert opinion, in addition to the autopsy, concluded that the victim had died of asphyxiation. This paved the way for his arrest on the &#8220;main&#8221; charge of murder.</span></p>
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<p> On April 16, the Kyoto Prefectural Police arrested Yuki on suspicion of abandoning a corpse, but the Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office had placed the case &#8220;pending disposition. The Kyoto District Public Prosecutors Office had placed a &#8220;suspension of disposition&#8221; on the suspect. This does not mean that the suspect cannot be charged with a crime, but rather that he will be charged with murder, which is a more serious crime.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The police had already shared with the police that they would definitely name the suspect for murder,&#8221; said Mr. Yuhki. Some investigators were angry at the selfishness of the suspect.</span></p>
<p> Some investigators were angry at the selfishness of the suspect,&#8221; said a reporter from a national newspaper who covered the crime scene. According to some reports, when the suspect admitted to killing his son, investigators were in tears.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I have never seen such a terrible case.</span></p>
<p> It is also reported that when the suspect admitted to killing his son, one of the investigators broke down in tears and said, &#8220;There has never been such a terrible case.</p>
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<h2><span class="strongInContent"> He was told that he was not the real father, etc.</span></h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> There are more than 1,000 people involved in the investigation of Yūki&#8217;s case, including the fire brigade. The prefectural police have released only the minimum amount of information on the grounds that it would affect the investigation. Some people on the Internet were upset about the search after the disappearance, saying that it was too late and wondering what they were doing, but behind the scenes, the prefectural police had their sights set on the suspect and were checking on his movements. Soon it became a matter of national concern, and there was a feeling that &#8216;this is unacceptable for abandoning a dead body'&#8221; (reporter for a national newspaper).</span></p>
<p> It is known that the suspect moved Yuki&#8217;s body to at least four locations in the city: On the morning of March 23, he drove Yuki to school, but instead of dropping him off there, he took him to a public restroom in the city. After strangling him, the suspect is believed to have put his body in his car and moved it to a hill behind his house, to a place where his schoolbag was found, to a place where his sneakers were found, and to a mountain forest where his body was found.</p>
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<p> At first, it was believed that this was done in order to distract the investigation, but it must be said that it was a poor act because it increased the risk of &#8220;footprints&#8221; being left in the location information on the smartphone and being caught on security cameras. According to the police official mentioned above, &#8220;After killing him, what was he supposed to do?</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> After killing him, he probably didn&#8217;t know what to do. He learned on the news that he was under investigation, and I think he was so anxious that he changed the location of the bodies one after another. I get the impression that the abandonment of the body was a random act.</span></p>
<p> He revealed, &#8220;I have the impression that the dumping of the bodies was haphazard.</p>
<p> The mystery that remains is &#8220;what kind of communication took place between Yuki and the suspect on the morning of March 23. Yuki was not pleased with the suspect, who had remarried his mother and joined the Adachi family as a son-in-law.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He told those around him, &#8220;A strange old man comes to our house and we fight all the time. I don&#8217;t want to go home.</span></p>
<p> I don&#8217;t want to go home. The suspect also told the police that he was not her real father, etc., when they questioned him.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He told the police that he was told that he was not his real father, and that he killed him because he was angry.</span></p>
<p> On May 7, the Yomiuri Shimbun and other newspapers reported that the suspect also stated that he killed the boy because he was angry at being told that he was not his real father.</p>
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<p> Now that the case has been officially ruled a homicide, the motive for the murder must be clarified.</p>


 The Kyoto Prefectural Police have re-arrested the father of Yuki Adachi on suspicion of murder for killing Yuki in a public restroom in the city. Behind the police's persistence: ......

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