SERIAL KILLER STASHES NINE BODIES IN HIS FLAT
Dismembered corpses are found in cool boxes
A MAN who had body parts of eight women and a man stored in cool boxes at his flat has been arrested in Tokyo.
Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, had two heads in a box outside his home and parts of seven others inside it.
A police spokesman said he had confessed to cutting them up and hiding them in the chillers.
Some of the remains had been covered with cat litter to try to mask the smell, he added.
Shiraishi is understood to have told police: “I killed them and did some work on the bodies to hide evidence.”
A neighbour in the Tokyo suburb of Zama said he noticed strange odours from the flat after Shiraishi moved into the building in August.
He said: “I thought it smelled like sewage. It was something I never smelled before.”
Officers made the grisly finds on Monday while searching for a 23-year-old woman, who had not been seen for 10 days.
Her concerned brother had reported her missing last week.
Detectives discovered that Shiraishi had exchanged messages with the woman after she had posted on Twitter that she was “looking for someone who will commit suicide with me”.
The two were captured by security cameras outside train stations and the woman was seen on CCTV walking with the suspect near his home.
A police official said that they had found a toolbox and a saw the suspected serial killer may have used to dismember the bodies.
Shiraishi told officers that he cut up the corpses in his bathroom, and put out some of the body parts in the rubbish.
The property was cordoned off by yellow police tape yesterday and the balcony was covered with blue plastic sheets to block the view as investigators went in and out of the studio apartment.
Forensic teams are working to identify the victims, while police investigate the motive for the killings.
TV reports claimed Shiraishi was working as a “scout” in the sex industry, recruiting women in entertainment districts in Tokyo.
I killed them and did some work on the bodies to hide evidence SHIRAISHI TO POLICE