In Japan, Teenager Enters Police Station Carrying Mother’s Severed Head
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TOKYO — A teenage boy carrying a severed head walked into a Japanese police station yesterday saying he killed his mother, the latest in a series of grisly dismemberments that have horrified a nation renowned for its low crime rate.
The 17-year-old suspect led officers to his house in northern Fukushima prefecture and pointed out his headless mother on her futon mattress, with a frank, “It’s in here,” Kyodo News reported.
He told police he beheaded his mother on the eve of her 47th birthday while she slept, and added, “It didn’t matter who I killed,” Kyodo reported. Police confirmed the arrest.
Last year, a jobless man allegedly cut up his mother and entombed her body parts in concrete-filled buckets left abandoned in a yard.
In January, Tokyo was put on edge when a woman confessed to dismembering her husband with a saw and dumping the parts around the capital. Then just weeks ago, the nation was riveted by a high-profile verdict in the death of a British bar hostess whose body was also dismembered and stashed in a seaside cave.
