Overview
- Police arrested a 49-year-old man on Friday on suspicion of abandoning two bodies that were found buried in the yard of a private house in Izumo, Shimane.
- Officers discovered the two buried bodies around 12:40 a.m. on June 26 after a relative reported on June 25 that she could not reach the house’s residents.
- Authorities say the presumed victims are the suspect’s father, 85, and brother, 55, and they are working to confirm identities through forensic procedures.
- Police reported external bleeding injuries to the head and abdomen on both bodies and have begun autopsies that could lead to upgraded charges depending on the findings.
- The arrested man denies the accusation and investigators say the immediate focus is identification, cause-of-death determination, and whether prosecutors will seek charges beyond death-body abandonment.