Woman Keeps Mother’s Body in Freezer for 10 Years | the Chronicle

Japanese woman arrested after hiding the body of her deceased mother for ten years in a freezer because, she said, she was afraid of being evicted from the apartment she lived in if the woman who owned the rental agreement was deceased.

This is a woman identified as Yumi Yoshino, 48 years old, inmate accused of having “hidden the body of a woman”, found last Wednesday in the freezer of an apartment in the city of Tokyo.

The woman said she hid the body ten years ago because “didn’t want to move” from the apartment he lived in with his mother, local press reported citing police sources, the news agency reported AFP.

Rent accommodation in a Tokyo apartment building It was on behalf of the mother, who was estimated to be in her sixties when she died reported Kyodo News.

The situation was discovered when Yoshino had to vacate the apartment in mid-January due to late payments of rent and a person who He went to clean it up, he found the situation gruesome.

The autopsy performed on the body of the accused’s mother could not determine the time or cause of death, according to the press.

A situation with similar characteristics appears in the beautiful film whose title in Spanish is “A family matter”, from the director Hirokazu Koreeda, where a family living on the retirement of an old woman, he does not reveal the fact and hides the woman’s body so as not to lose the income which will allow him to live.