Her son kept her there for nine years, he says
(NEWSER) - After discovering that Tokyo’s (supposedly) oldest man had been dead for 30 years and its oldest woman is missing , police began a search for other Japanese centenarians—and found one in her son’s backpack. The remains of the 104-year-old woman were stuffed in the pack for nine years, AFP reports . Her 64-year-old son, who couldn’t afford to bury her, “laid out her body for a while, washed it in the bath, then broke up the bones and put them into a backpack,” he says. More»
