This zoo worker in Japan has been arrested over alleged disposal of wife’s body with incinerator
Police in Japan’s northern prefecture of Hokkaido have arrested a zoo employee on suspicion of disposing of his wife’s body in an incinerator at his workplace.
Authorities on Thursday arrested Suzuki Tatsuya, a 33-year-old employee of Asahiyama Zoo in the city of Asahikawa, following the discovery of what investigators described as part of a human body in the facility’s incinerator.
Police allege that Suzuki took the body of his 33-year-old wife, Yui, to the zoo and burned it around March 31. They cited him as admitting to the charge. Investigators began questioning him after a relative reported on April 23 that his wife was missing.
According to police, the suspect indicated before his arrest that he had abandoned her body in the incinerator at night while the zoo was closed. Authorities also said he suggested that he had killed his wife and is suspected of having threatened her by saying he would burn her until nothing remained.
Asahiyama Zoo opened for the summer season on Friday, two days later than scheduled due to the police investigation.
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