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Kyoto Jane Doe was a woman whose remains were discovered beneath the floor of a home alongside the body of another woman, who was later identified, in Kyoto, Japan. She is believed to have died sometime in 2003.
Case[]
On the afternoon of 15 February 2014, two bodies were discovered underneath the floorboards of a house in the Fushimi Ward of Kyoto, Japan, each wrapped in blue plastic sheets and lying side by side. The homeowner had requested termite extermination services, leading to the discovery. A forensic autopsy conducted on 17 February found one woman was in her 30s while the other was in her early 20s. There were no fractures observed, and their cause and time of death could not be determined.
On 16 February 2006, the bodies of two women and one man were discovered in the same house in what appeared to be a group suicide by burning briquettes. The current homeowner had bought the house five years prior and claims to have no knowledge of the previous incident. It is suspected that the man, who was the previous homeowner and lived alone after divorcing his wife, met the two women online. No search beneath the floorboards was conducted at the time.
Further investigations revealed a potential connection between the group suicide in 2006 and the bodies discovered in 2014. The parents of the deceased man revealed that detectives from Nara had previously reached out to them regarding a missing woman several years prior. Through the Nara Prefectural Police, the Kyoto Prefectural Police contacted the woman's family. After DNA tests, it was confirmed that she was one of the bodies found in 2014. She was a part-time worker in her early 20s from Uda, Nara.
According to investigations, the woman went missing in February 2003, stating that she was going to a friend's house and never returned home. Her family reported her missing in February 2008.
Following her identification, it is believed that her body had been dumped before the group suicide. But her relationship with the man remains unclear.
Characteristics[]
- Long hair that had been dyed brown.
Clothing[]
- Pajamas-like upper and lower garments.
- Underwear.
- Diamond-like necklace.
- Cross-shaped pendant.
- Bracelet-like ite.
- Black circular rubber bands.
Gallery[]
Sources[]
- Kyoto Prefectural Police (Japanese)
- The Sankei News (Japanese)
- NTV (Japanese)
- Sankei Shimbun (Japanese) (archived)