Police on Wednesday referred to prosecutors a 27-year-old man who has admitted to killing nine people, as well as dismembering and storing their body parts in his apartment near Tokyo.
Takahiro Shiraishi was served an arrest warrant Monday for killing one of the nine, Aiko Tamura, 23, from Tokyo, at his apartment in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in late October.
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