Severed head FOUND weeks after body was discovered in hotel while daughter and parents were arrested

Hitoshi, 62, was found naked and beheaded on July 2 at a love hotel in Sapporo and his head was found three weeks later at the family home of the three suspects
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The missing head of a decapitated man has been found three weeks after his body was found in a hotel room. A Japanese woman and her parents were arrested after police made the discovery and believe the couple bought a saw and suitcases before the incident.

Detectives from the city of Sapporo in northern Japan are interviewing Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, 59, in connection with the mysterious death of Hitoshi Ura earlier this month. They are suspected of conspiring to behead the victim in a hotel room and move his severed head in the middle of the night between July 1 and July 2. Runa's mother, Hiroko, 60, was arrested the next day on suspicion of conspiracy in the plot to hide the head which was found at the Tamura family home.

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Hitoshi, 62, was found naked and beheaded on July 2 at a love hotel in Sapporo, where couples can rent rooms by the hour. Security camera footage showed he entered the hotel at 10:50 p.m. the day before he died with a woman. About three hours later, the woman was seen leaving, carrying a large suitcase and wearing different clothes.

Hotel employees made the shocking discovery the next day because no one had left the room that afternoon. The worker found the victim slumped in a bathtub, none of his personal belongings had been left in the bedroom and the bed was unused, according to dispatches. Examination of the body suggested that his head was severed after death and there were no signs of a struggle in the room.

An autopsy of his body revealed that the cause of death was hemorrhagic shock. Police plan to perform an autopsy on the head following its discovery.

Osamu is the head of the psychiatric department of a general hospital in the city...

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Severed head FOUND weeks after body was discovered in hotel while daughter and parents were arrested

Hitoshi, 62, was found naked and beheaded on July 2 at a love hotel in Sapporo and his head was found three weeks later at the family home of the three suspects

Officers of police investigate Tamura House in Sapporo at-Hokkaido-23206057189886.jpg

Police investigate the Tamura House in Sapporo (

Image: AP)

The missing head of a decapitated man has been found three weeks after his body was found in a hotel room. A Japanese woman and her parents were arrested after police made the discovery and believe the couple bought a saw and suitcases before the incident.

Detectives from the city of Sapporo in northern Japan are interviewing Runa Tamura, 29, and her father Osamu Tamura, 59, in connection with the mysterious death of Hitoshi Ura earlier this month. They are suspected of conspiring to behead the victim in a hotel room and move his severed head in the middle of the night between July 1 and July 2. Runa's mother, Hiroko, 60, was arrested the next day on suspicion of conspiracy in the plot to hide the head which was found at the Tamura family home.

Runa Tamura is pictured being transferred from a police station (

Picture:

PA)

Hitoshi, 62, was found naked and beheaded on July 2 at a love hotel in Sapporo, where couples can rent rooms by the hour. Security camera footage showed he entered the hotel at 10:50 p.m. the day before he died with a woman. About three hours later, the woman was seen leaving, carrying a large suitcase and wearing different clothes.

Hotel employees made the shocking discovery the next day because no one had left the room that afternoon. The worker found the victim slumped in a bathtub, none of his personal belongings had been left in the bedroom and the bed was unused, according to dispatches. Examination of the body suggested that his head was severed after death and there were no signs of a struggle in the room.

An autopsy of his body revealed that the cause of death was hemorrhagic shock. Police plan to perform an autopsy on the head following its discovery.

Osamu is the head of the psychiatric department of a general hospital in the city...