Overview
- Keiko Mori, 75, turned herself in on September 23 in Ibaraki Prefecture, according to police.
- Officers recovered a woman’s remains from a household freezer where the body is believed to have been kept for about 20 years.
- Mori told investigators the corpse was her daughter, born in 1975, and she did not address how the death occurred or her possible role.
- Police said she explained buying the freezer because a strong odor from the corpse filled the home.
- She was arrested on suspicion of abandoning a body, and an autopsy is expected to determine the cause and timing of death.