Woman's Severed Head Found In LI Man's Japan Rental Apartment

A gruesome international story suddenly hit close to home after a woman's decapitated head was found in a suitcase in a Mastic Beach man's Japanese rental apartment.

According to the Asahi Shimbun, Yevgeniy Bayraktar, 26, was already in custody after the woman's disappearance when police searching the apartment made the horrifying discovery of the woman's head over the weekend.

Bayraktar is from Mastic, the NY Daily News reported. Additional dismembered parts of a woman's body, including her torso, were found in Japan in Kyoto and Osaka, according to Japanese broadcaster NHK World.

Police had been searching the apartment for the woman, 27, who went missing after telling a friend that she was meeting an American tourist she'd met on an app, according to the Asahi Shimbun.

"I abandoned the dead body of a woman who was with me," Bayraktar told police on Feb. 25, Asahi Shimbun reported.

The remains have not yet been identified; the woman's family reported her missing according to reports.

According to Asahi Shimbun, police were led to find the body parts by the tourist, held in custody. He was originally arrested on Feb. 22 on suspicion that he'd locked the woman up, who'd he'd met on a social media site, in an "apartment room used for 'minpaku' private lodging in Osaka's Higashinari Ward," the publication said. Police then, on Feb. 24, found a human head in a suitcase at another private apartment the the man had booked in the Nishinari Ward, the publication said.

Asahi Shimbun reported that just after midnight on Feb. 15, a security camera captured two people "who apparently were the woman and the suspect entering the apartment in Osaka's Higashinari Ward. After that, the woman’s cellphone battery went dead and she could not be reached."

He was seen leaving the lodging — alone — of Feb. 18 and security camera footage caught him going in and out with a "large bag," Asahi Shimbun reported.

A neighbor at Bayraktar's Mastic Beach home said he and his parents were friendly, according tonbcnewyork.com. "Surfacely, from seeing these people, they are beautiful people," Motovidlak said, according to the NBC report. "They wave, they smile and say 'good evening.'"

Bayraktar reportedly arrived in Japan sightseeing in January and contacted a number of women through apps.

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