Man arrested for dismembering sister sliced off her breasts

[sanctus]

Yuki Muto leaves a police station on Friday before being sent to prosecutors.A man under arrest for dismembering the body of his sister sliced off her hair and breasts in an apparent attempt to hide his victim's gender, said police.

Yuki Muto, 21, from Tokyo's Shibuya-ku, told officers that he disposed of the breasts by putting them in the garbage disposal in his kitchen sink.

Muto is under arrest for slicing the body of his 20-year-old sister Azumi into more than 10 separate parts, mostly at the joints. He put the other body parts into four plastic bags and hid them in his room.

"I was planning to get rid of (the bags) later," Muto was quoted as telling police.

Muto also admitted to Azumi's murder. "I hit her on the head and she passed out, but then she came round again," Muto told officers. "So I then strangled her."

The victim's lungs contained water, and police suspect that Muto might have strangled or drowned her in a bathtub. (Mainichi)

 

[snowles]

Now I'm no forensic expert, but it would seem to me that even if you had just a human torso, and there were two large slices missing from the breast area, that it would be pretty fricken obvious what gender it was, especially when human body shape is taken into consideration.

Why do people always think police are stupid? You will be caught - these people are investigators and scientists. The mantra should be "if you're smart enough to think of it, the cops thought of it 30 years ago."

 

[karrie]

Now I'm no forensic expert, but it would seem to me that even if you had just a human torso, and there were two large slices missing from the breast area, that it would be pretty fricken obvious what gender it was, especially when human body shape is taken into consideration.

Why do people always think police are stupid? You will be caught - these people are investigators and scientists. The mantra should be "if you're smart enough to think of it, the cops thought of it 30 years ago."

he may have said that he sliced them off for that reason, but I highly doubt that was why. if someone wanted to hide the identity of a victim, you make their face unrecognizable and smash out their teeth. cutting off their breasts and hair sounds more like a way to punish and degrade the body, rather than to conceal anything.

 

[thomaska]

Yuck.

 

[#juan]

One wonders what led to this calamity. Why did the sister need to be killed? Was it to silence her? Why would she need to be silenced? My cynical mind can think of all sorts of ugly reasons but I won't go into them here.

 

[karrie]

One wonders what led to this calamity. Why did the sister need to be killed? Was it to silence her? Why would she need to be silenced? My cynical mind can think of all sorts of ugly reasons but I won't go into them here.

well, i think the nature of the mutilation says all one would need to know about the reasons behind the murder. and i don't think it's cynical for your mind to conjure the reasons behind it... it's analytical.