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Father Arrested in Kyoto Boy Case as Phone Searches and Missing Dashcam Footage Emerge

Investigators are retracing his route to fix the timeline of the death.

Overview

  • Police-reported phone data disclosed Monday show the father’s smartphone held searches on how to dispose of a body around the day his 11-year-old child went missing.
  • Investigators say parts of the car’s drive-recorder footage from that morning are missing, and they are working to rebuild the route.
  • Police believe he moved the body several times by car and may have left it near a public toilet about two kilometers from the home before it was later found in a mountain area of Nantan City.
  • In earlier voluntary questioning, the father reportedly told police he drove by the school, took the child to another place in the city, and strangled the child.
  • Officials say he phoned outside contacts to report the child was gone before the school reached the family about the absence, a sequence now under review along with his movements.