Nantan, Kyoto Pref. –
The father of a boy in Kyoto Prefecture who was found dead earlier this week has admitted that he strangled his son, investigative sources said Friday.
Yūki Adachi, 37, said during voluntary questioning by the Kyoto Prefectural Police that he killed his son, Yuki Adachi, 11, “by strangling him at a different location after stopping by” the boy’s school, according to the sources.
The voluntary questioning took place before the father’s arrest Thursday on suspicion of abandoning the body of his son, a student of Sonobe Elementary School in the city of Nantan. The body of the boy was found lying face up in a forest about 2 kilometers southwest of the school.
While an autopsy carried out on the body has failed to determine the cause of the boy’s death, the victim is estimated to have died in late March. There were no visible injuries on the body. The Kyoto police are carefully investigating the circumstances surrounding his death.
Some footage from the father’s car dashboard camera had been deleted, but an analysis of the remaining footage found that the father drove to a place near the school on the morning of March 23. It is not known whether the boy was inside the vehicle at the time.
While the boy was not seen on footage from the school’s security cameras that day, he was confirmed to have been alive until that morning.
The suspect has admitted to abandoning his son’s body and said he moved it several times in Nantan.
On Friday, the prefectural police seized a vehicle believed to be owned by the suspect and transferred it from his home in Nantan to the city’s police station. The police will investigate the interior of the vehicle.
AloJapan.com