A Japanese woman has been arrested after a cleaner found her mother’s body in the freezer of her Tokyo apartment.
The body was bent to fit in the freezer, police said.
Yumi Yoshino, now 48, said she hid the body 10 years ago after returning home and found her 60-year-old mother dead for “not wanting to move” out of their home, local media reported.
There were no visible wounds on the frozen body, police said.
Officials were unable to determine the time and cause of the woman’s death.
The body was reportedly discovered after Yoshino was evicted from the apartment for missing rent payments. Yoshino was arrested Friday at a hotel in Chiba city, near Tokyo.