Offbeat | Indonesian police arrest guard in Japanese woman’s murder

Indonesian police investigating a Japanese woman’s murder said Friday they have arrested a security guard of her apartment building in the capital.
Jakarta police chief Maj. Gen. Tito Karnavian told reporters that the Cassa Grande apartment’s security guard Mursalim, 25, was caught in Pringsewu neighborhood of Lampung province late Thursday, and flown to Jakarta on Friday for investigation.
Yoshimi Nishimura, 28, had been living in the building for three months and was found dead Monday. She was found in her bed with strangulation marks on her neck.
Her driver, her friend and another building security officer went to check on her after efforts to contact her had failed.
Karnavian said Nishimura was robbed and that autopsy results suggest she was killed three days before being found.
“The suspect has confessed that he killed her for (the purpose of) stealing her belongings,” Karnavian said.
Nishimura’s body was cremated shortly after a forensic autopsy completed Thursday and her family and the Japanese Embassy in Jakarta have been notified.
Mursalim, who uses a single name, has not yet been formally charged but Indonesiapolice were investigating possibility of premeditated murder, which carries a maximum death penalty.
The suspect allegedly inserted paper into the lock of her apartment door so that Nishimura had to ask him for help anytime she wanted to open the door. AP