Photo/Illutration A car transporting Hazel Ann Baguisa Morales, a Philippine national arrested in connection with a double slaying, leaves the Metropolitan Police Department’s Nishi-Arai Station in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward on Jan. 19. (Minami Endo)

A Filipino woman was arrested in connection with the discovery of two bodies found under the floorboards of a house in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward on the afternoon of Jan. 18.

Early on Jan. 19, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested Hazel Ann Baguisa Morales, 30, a Philippine national with an unknown occupation, who lives in the ward, on suspicion of abandoning the corpses.

Morales denied the charge, saying, “I don’t know,” according to police.

The bodies were identified as Norihiro Takahashi, 55, self-employed, and his wife, Kimie, 52, unemployed, who lived in the house.

Morales is suspected of dumping the bodies of Takahashi and his wife at the residence around Jan. 16.

According to investigative sources, the couple had multiple knife-like wounds on their upper bodies and other parts of their bodies.

According to the sources, Morales had previously been in a relationship with the couple’s eldest son, who is in his 30s and lives with his parents.

The Metropolitan Police Department is also aware of reports that Morales had financial problems with the man.

Police believe that Morales has known Takahashi and his wife and their son for several years.

According to the sources, at around 8:50 p.m. on Jan. 16, the son called the emergency 110 number, saying that his parents were missing when he came home from work and found blood on the floor inside the house.

The son left the house at around 8 a.m. that day to go to work.

The police searched and found two bodies wrapped in blue sheets under the floorboards of a three-story house on the afternoon of Jan. 18.

There were no signs of damage inside the room and there were multiple bloodstains on the front door, some of which appeared to have been wiped off, according to the sources.

The house where the Takahashi family lives is in a residential area about one kilometer west of JR Kita-Senju Station.

The Takahashis moved to the house around 2022, according to the registry of deeds and neighbors.

Morales lives in an apartment about 440 meters away from the Takahashi residence.

(This article was written by Yuji Masuyama, Minami Endo and Shomei Nagatsuma.)

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