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Missing Man's Body Found in Freezer

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Japanese police on Thursday arrested a woman on the northernmost island of Hokkaido after the body of her husband, who had been missing for five years, was found in a discarded freezer, a police spokesman said.


The decomposed body of civil servant Hidenori Iinuma was found the previous day by employees of a real estate company who were trying to move the freezer, apparently abandoned on the firm's property.

The body was clothed, doubled over to fit into the small freezer and covered with a blanket, police said.

Police arrested Akemi Iinuma, 40, on suspicion of murder. She had reported her husband missing in 1997.

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