TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have referred a deceased 36-year-old woman to prosecutors over the murders of her three sons and a male acquaintance late last year, investigative sources said.
On Friday, police officially sent papers on Yuka Nomura to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on charges including murder and abandonment of a corpse.
Nomura is accused of fatally stabbing 27-year-old Shintaro Nakakubo multiple times in the abdomen in December at an apartment she rented in Nerima Ward. After the killing, she allegedly stuffed his corpse into a closet, reports Nippon News Network (Apr. 24).
Days after disposing of Nakakubo’s body, Nomura is suspected of murdering her three sons, aged between 9 and 16, at their home in Nishitokyo City.
The case came to light in December when the bodies of the woman and her three children were discovered at the Nishitokyo residence in an apparent murder-suicide. The ensuing investigation led police to the Nerima Ward apartment, where Nakakubo’s hidden remains were found.
