A 39-year-old Saga Prefecture man serving time for burglary has been served an arrest warrant in his prison cell for a slaying 13 years ago and faces questioning on two others.

Teruhiko Matsue, of Kitagata, is serving a two-year prison term. The arrest warrant is in connection with the January 1989 slaying of Tatsuyo Yoshino, 37, a local seamstress whose corpse was found along with the other two dead women at the base of a cliff in the mountains around Kitagata.

Matsue allegedly strangled Yoshino, with whom he was acquainted, on the night of Jan. 25, 1989, after he had telephoned her and invited her out. He then allegedly took her body in his car to the mountains.