Kagoshima: Man in custody for dumping woman’s corpse met her online
By Tokyo Reporter Staff on January 10, 2021
According to police, Yuya Tabata, of no known occupation, dumped the body of Mihayu Iwakiri, 35, along a vegetated embankment near National Route 220 on around September 16.
Upon his arrest on Saturday, Tabata generally admitted to the allegations. “There’s no question that I abandoned [her],” the suspect was quoted by police. “But I don’t know whether [she] was dead.”
Yuya Tabata (Twitter)
Iwakiri was an office worker living in Kanoya City. She met Tabata on a social-networking service.
On the night of September 16, she went left her residence and did not return. Her family then filed a missing persons report with police. On October 29, police found her decayed body near the highway.