Japanese murder investigators mistakenly believed sex doll was a corpse
Police in Izu responded to a report of a possible corpse in the woods by dispatching an investigation team:
Fifteen officers were dispatched to the scene, where they discovered a human form wrapped in plastic and tightly bound around the neck, midriff and ankles, with hair protruding from one end.
The body was left untouched and taken away for examination, and the crime scene duly secured by a police cordon.
Back at the local police headquarters, officials notified reporters who had turned up early the same morning to cover an annual earthquake drill. They began preparing to write up the launch of a major murder investigation.
Dozens of extra officers were dispatched to interview potential witnesses, while the evening edition of the local newspaper carried a report of the gruesome find, complete with a photograph of the body’s resting place.
By mid-afternoon, the body was in the hands of police pathologists. But when they sliced open the wrapping, they were confronted not by a decomposing corpse, but by a life-sized sex doll.
As you might guess, the international media is loving this wacky Japan story.
[Photo via Itai News (hat tip to Tombo)]
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why wasn`t a medical examiner called to the scene? all this embarrassment could have been avoided if the police and “investigators” (i can`t believe they can even use this word as there was very little investigation) had been using up-to-date (as in this century) science and investigative procedures.
seriously, but sex-doll or not, thats still just creepy as hell.
Well to be completely fair, I think the media would have loved this story no matter what country it came from.
Still, that would have had to have been one hell of a realistic sex doll to convince those that came into contact with it.
Apparently some people are new to the whole reading-news-about-wacky-Japan thing.
Creepily realistic sex dolls is an old story.
I guess the “murderer” was confused as to whether a sex doll is burnable, unburnable, recycleable, or not.
Just think, someday the happily illustrated guide to proper garbage disposal will have to include “sex doll” somewhere on it. LOL
Since this report was published in Egnlish and is embarrassing to Japan in the international media, does that mean legions of angry 2chers will be demanding the writers be fired and will they start sending death threats to those who published this story? [as in the WaiWai case]
Surely 2channers should be directing their rage at the freak who caused the situation in the first place?
The press just reports the facts of the story – good or bad.
If the story did not exist, the press would not have reported it.
“Don’t shoot the messenger, just because they bring bad news”.
Surely some gaikokujins should be directing their rage at the freak who caused the situation in the first place.
The consumers just complain of the quality of the Mainichi articles.
If the Hentai articles did not exist in one of the biggest news agency, the consumer would not complain it.
“Don’t shoot the messenger, just because they bring complaints.”
I agree.
Probably.
2chars are always complaining of Mainichi, but that didn’t move Mainichi, but it was Japanese women’s voices that made Mainichi close down Hentai waiwai.
And I am not sure whether there was a death threat. An Australian female journalist “understood” there was a death threat from an interview with an Australian journalist who translated and wrote Hentai articles;though he talked nothing. I think he should come forward and tell it to the public if there was really a death threat, that will make him much safer.
“I think he should come forward and tell it to the public if there was really a death threat, that will make him much safer.”
I think your irrationality on this issue knows no bounds if you believe that coming forward would make him safer.
Since this report was published in Egnlish and is embarrassing to Japan in the international media, does that mean legions of angry 2chers will be demanding the writers be fired and will they start sending death threats to those who published this story?
No. For one thing, it didn’t come from a tabloid and it actually happened, and it was reported in the Japanese press as well. The story did make it to 2ch, but it was a Japanese article about it that was posted, and the 2channelers had much the same reaction as most of the people here.
LOL
Photos:http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1171448.html
That’s some fine detective work, Lou.
i am telling you – the truth is stranger than fiction.
i wonder if it was one of those “real dolls”
Yea that just seems a little nuts to announce a murder before looking at the body. Surely it would be best to do some kind of examination before declaring things like that.
On another note, anyone know if they are doing DNA testing to find this litter bug?
this is the plot of the martin clunes movie Stark!
“Fake Murder in Wacky Japan: Hyper-realistic Japanese sex doll found discarded in woods in kinky bondage play”
lol Sales of these real dolls will now skyrocket. The makers of these dolls couldn’t have asked for better publicity lol.
It is lucky it was not the body of someone alive and suffocating, because they would have died.
The first thing to do on finding a body is to check the scene for a possible cause. The second thing is to check if the body is a dead one or needs first aid.
The motives and behaviour of the person who put the body there are irrelevant to this lack of basic care on the behalf of the police.
There’s a Reno 911 in Japan?
LOL it happens i guess.
great post!