Man arrested on suspicion of abandoning dead body of female acquaintance, transported by car to Sendai - Chiba Prefectural Police

By the 24th, the Prefectural Police's First Investigative Division had arrested Ryota Nakajima (28), an acquaintance and self-proclaimed company employee from Matsudo City in the same prefecture, on suspicion of transporting the body of a missing woman from Chiba Prefecture to Sendai City and abandoning it. He admitted the charge, saying, ``There's no doubt about it.'' Prefectural police will investigate further, as he is said to have made comments hinting at killing a woman.

``I went to Miyagi alone'' Man arrested on suspicion of abandoning a corpse, subject to voluntary interview - Metropolitan Police Department

The suspect was arrested on suspicion of transporting the body of Risa Kato (30) from an apartment parking lot in Kamo, Ichihara City, Sendai Prefecture to a coin parking lot in the center of Aoba Ward, Sendai City between the 17th and 22nd, and abandoning it in a parked car.

Kato's husband called 911 on the afternoon of the 21st and said, ``I can't contact my wife. We don't have a car for her to use.'' While prefectural police were looking for the suspect, they discovered through surveillance cameras and other surveillance that Nakajima had driven a car to Sendai. When police found the suspect at a cafe complex in the city on the 22nd and questioned him, his body was found in the back seat of a car parked in a nearby parking lot.