Overview
- A building manager conducting a welfare check found an elderly man dead around 12:15 p.m. on March 18 in a seventh-floor unit in Osaka’s Higashiyodogawa Ward.
- A judicial autopsy confirmed multiple stab wounds, including two that penetrated the heart, with cardiac tamponade identified as the cause of death.
- Osaka Prefectural Police have launched a homicide probe and are treating the body as that of the unit’s resident, believed to be in his 80s, while formal identification proceeds.
- Investigators noted injuries consistent with defensive wounds on the right hand.
- The entrance was locked, a balcony window was slightly open, the room showed no sign of ransacking, and the victim’s wallet and mobile phone were not found.