Particle.news
Download on the App Store

Infant Body Parts Found in Freezer at Tokyo Out-Call Service Office

Police are treating the discovery as mutilation and abandonment of a corpse.

Overview

  • A male worker called around 9 p.m. after finding what appeared to be a child's head while cleaning a mini refrigerator.
  • Responding officers found a wrapped head in the freezer and separate arms and legs stored in a plastic food container.
  • The torso has not been located, and police say the infant’s identity and cause of death remain undetermined as forensic work continues.
  • Investigators believe the remains are those of a baby a few months old, with the gender still unknown.
  • The discovery was made at an out-call service provider in a multi-tenant building near Kinshicho Station in Sumida Ward, which nearby workers described as a waiting room for sex workers.