A 48-year-old Japanese woman had been arrested by the Tokyo police last Wednesday (27 January 2021) after a corpse was found in a freezer in her apartment. Worse, the dead body is of her mother had been there for approximately 10 years!

As reported by The Guardian, the perpetrator, Yumi Yoshino, was detained by local police ‘on suspicion of abandoning and hiding a female body’. Yoshino said that the dead body is her mother and that when her mother died, she hid the corpse in the freezer because she feared that she would be evicted from the home if people find out. This is because she was living at the house with her mother and that the lease of the apartment was under her mother’s name.