Overview
- The Yokohama couple, arrested Sunday, are accused of directing the robbery-murder, with Kaito Takemae stopped at Haneda before an international flight and his wife, Miyu, detained later at a business hotel with their baby.
- Four 16-year-old boys broke into Eiko Tomiyama’s Kaminokawa home on Thursday, May 14, fatally stabbed the 69-year-old, and injured two sons who tried to help.
- The teens, all from Kanagawa Prefecture, were taken into custody between Thursday and Saturday and are believed to have reached the house in a luxury foreign car driven by one boy despite being under 18.
- Some suspects told police they met the couple for the first time that day and were told to carry out the attack, with a white BMW supplied as the getaway car.
- Police are treating the case as linked to tokuryu groups that issue orders through smartphone apps and are now looking into whether higher-level coordinators directed the couple.