Vietnamese Man’s Hints at Murdering Aged Woman near Tokyo

Saitama, Aug. 3 (Jiji Press)–A Vietnamese national in his 30s has made a statement suggesting he killed a 91-year-old woman of Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, near Tokyo, according to investigative sources. Acting on the man’s statement, the Saitama prefectural police searched a forested area in Hanno, which neighbors Iruma, on Saturday night and found her body, the sources said. The man had been arrested for allegedly driving away in a vehicle from the woman’s home. The police suspect the possibility of murder and abandonment of a corpse. The prefecture’s Sayama Police Station on Friday received a report that Kinuko Maruyama, who lived alone, was missing. When officers checked her house in response to the report from her daughter, they found the front door unlocked and a minivehicle whose registered owner was Maruyama’s son missing. Maruyama did not have a driver’s license. Also on Friday, police found the Vietnamese man driving the vehicle on a national highway in Fujimi, also Saitama. After abandoning the vehicle, he fled into a house, where he was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, sources said. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]