Man kept corpse in cupboard to steal pension

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Japanese police are investigating a man they believe hid the corpse of his father in a cupboard in order to keep receiving his pension cheques.

The man, 55, told police he came home to find his father dead in bed at their home in Kyoto five years ago. "I left him there for a week, but he started to smell, so I put him in the wardrobe," the man told police according to the Mainichi Daily News. The alarm was raised by the man's ex-wife, who visited his apartment and could find no sign of her former father-in-law. Police found the mummified remains of the older man, who would have been 92 if he had lived, in a wardrobe. Japanese authorities are trying to identify how many of its citizens recorded as being aged over 85 are ...

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