Arrested man sent a message from a woman's smartphone after leaving home, perhaps a fake attempt - female corpse abandonment case, Metropolitan Police Department

Takuya Miura (36), a self-employed man who was arrested for abandoning the body of a woman he lived with and was in a relationship with in the mountains of Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture, is suspected of using the woman's smartphone to send a message to himself on the way to the prefecture from his home in Tokyo, investigators said on the 6th.

Miura was reportedly in possession of the woman's smartphone when he was arrested. An autopsy revealed that the woman's cause of death was suspected to be asphyxiation due to neck compression. The Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1 will also investigate the details of the circumstances surrounding his death.

Miura was arrested on September 28th for allegedly carrying the body of Maho Muroga (25), a part-time worker he lived with, into the mountains in the same city and abandoning it. He denies the charges, saying, ``I don't remember.''

According to investigators, Miura is believed to have driven a moped from his home to the parking lot in the early morning of the same day, and when he returned home, he put the body in his car, and left for Miyagi Prefecture around 7 a.m.

An analysis of the suspect's smartphone revealed that around 6 a.m., he received a message from Muroga saying, ``I'm going home to my parents,'' to which he replied, ``Why?'' It was discovered that even after 7:00 a.m., when he left his home, Muroga sent him a message saying ``I'm going to block you,'' and left a message in which he replied ``No, no.''

During a voluntary interview before his arrest, Miura explained that Muroga was not home when he returned home around 6 a.m. and that he had gone to Miyagi Prefecture to buy alcohol and go to a hot spring by himself.

He visited the area around the abandonment site twice on the same day in the evening, and appears to have abandoned the body after it got dark. Afterwards, we stayed at a hot spring in Kurihara City for about 10 minutes. I returned home around 3 a.m. the next day.

Residents of the apartment where the two lived often heard the voices of the women arguing. A resident who had called 110 said, ``I heard screaming early in the morning about a week ago,'' and a patron at a bar run by the suspect said in shock, ``I just couldn't believe it.''