Japan man ‘kept dead mother in a backpack’
In the latest find, a 64-year-old man told officials that his mother had died at home in Tokyo in “about June 2001″.
“Because I didn’t have money for a funeral, I didn’t report her death,” the Sankei Shimbun newspaper quoted him as saying.
The AFP news agency reported that he told police: “I laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack.”
But the woman’s pension continued to be paid and police are now investigating the son on suspicion of fra
