Man arrested for killing wife, dumping body on side of road in Hyogo Prefecture
According to police, Shigehiro Shimizu, a company employee, turned himself in to Nishinomiya Police Station on Friday morning and told police he had killed his wife at home and taken her body and left it by a road in Sumoto, NHK reported.
A passerby found the woman lying face down on a slope outside the guardrail at around 12:30 p.m. on Aug 8 and called 110.
The woman was not wearing any clothes or shoes, and had no personal belongings. Her body was reportedly in an advanced state of decomposition. An autopsy was unable to determine the cause of death, police said.
Police said Shimizu was vague about details and told them he left his wife's body by the road sometime after Aug 2.
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