In all, 240 pieces of bone belonging to nine people, including heads and limbs, were discovered inside coolers and toolboxes at his apartment, the Tokyo Shimbun said. Details also began to emerge of how investigators tracked down the suspected killer and trapped him using the same medium he used to lure his victims – Twitter. He contacted his victims via Twitter and killed most of them on the day he met them, he is reported to have told authorities. Shiraishi told police he killed his first victim, a female acquaintance, shortly after moving there, and spent three days dismembering her body, the Yomiuri Shimbun said. Shiraishi told investigators he kept the body parts because he was afraid he might get caught if he discarded them.

Source: The Guardian November 01, 2017 07:58 UTC