Family murders in Japan… aka the song that never ends…
Man sought over murder of mother, grandmother found dead in apparent suicide
OKAYAMA -A 25-year-old man being sought by police for questioning over the murders of his 50-year-old mother and 74-year-old grandmother at their house in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, on Monday, has been found dead in a river in Oita Prefecture after having apparently committed suicide.
Police said the man’s body was found floating in a river Monday afternoon beneath a bridge in Kokonoe, Oita Prefecture, Kyodo News reported. Police believe he jumped to his death. On Wednesday, police confirmed he was the man they were looking for.
Police had been looking for him since Takafumi Miyamoto, 77, a company employee, discovered the bodies his wife, Sachie, and his daughter Chisono Ando collapsed inside their home on Monday. Both women were beaten to death with a metal baseball bat that was left at the scene, police said. Sachie’s body was in the kitchen, while Ando’s was in the bathroom.