Woman, parents arrested over Sapporo murder to face psychiatric tests

A woman and her parents who have been arrested over the alleged murder of a man found decapitated in a hotel in Sapporo will undergo psychiatric evaluations, investigative sources said Friday.Runa Tamura, 29, her father, Osamu, a 59-year-old psychiatrist, and her mother Hiroko, 60, will be detained for six months from Monday through Feb. 28 for tests. The period of detention is longer than the two to three months commonly set for such assessments, the sources said.Prosecutors asked the Sapporo Summary Court, located in the capital of Japan's northernmost island, to approve the evaluations f…READ FULL ARTICLE