Japan: Woman's body sent in mail in package marked "doll"

[davidn3600]

An odd story...

Tokyo (AFP) - Murder detectives were Monday investigating the case of a young nurse whose corpse was sent by parcel post across Japan in a box that claimed to contain a doll.

The body of Rika Okada was found in a storage lock-up in Tokyo. Investigators also found the 2-metre (6ft 6in) box in which it had been transported from the southern city of Osaka, reports said.

The delivery service that ferried the package -- marked with the Japanese word for 'doll' -- 400 kilometres (230 miles) to the capital had been paid in Okada's own name. The bill for the lock-up's short term rental had been settled using her credit card.

The body of the 29-year-old, who had been missing since late March, had more than a dozen stab wounds, local media reported, but no defensive injuries on her hands or arms.

http://news.yahoo.com/japan-womans-body-sent-mail-marked-doll-072124155.html

[Hassin Bin Sober]

1. .

[valerief]

2. 10 to 1 a man did it. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

3. You might just lose that bet

According to a Japanese news article,

一方、５月３日に岡田さん名義のパスポート（旅券）で出国した記録があり、写真は岡田さんの元同級生の女のものだった。大阪府警は女が岡田さんになりすまして出国したとみている。

"However, there is a record of someone leaving Japan with a passport that was in Ms. Okada's name on May 3, but the photo was that of one of Ms. Okada's former female classmates. The Osaka prefectural police are looking at this as a case where a woman impersonated Ms. Okada in order to leave Japan."

http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG5R6J0DG5RPTIL03R.html?iref=com_alist_6_05

[valerief]

5. Ha! That *would* be a surprise! nt

[Art_from_Ark]

6. The female suspect flew to China with another female,

a former exchange student of Chinese nationality. It is not clear what, if any, role the other female played in the incident. But the suspect, who is Brazilian-Japanese, turned herself in to the Japanese consulate in Shanghai, where she is now being held by Chinese investigators. Although she had the falsified passport on her person when she turned herself in, it's not clear whether she will be extradited to Japan, since Japan and China do not have an extradition treaty, and there are concerns that the suspect might be deported to Brazil , rather than to Japan, because she entered China on a falsified passport and she has Brazilian citizenship.

http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye2211814.html

[betsuni]

4. Just heard on the news

that the former classmate was Brazilian-Japanese. Hate it when criminals are non-Japanese, people already think we're the biggest criminals around.