July __, 1982

Okinomiya Police Station 1st Investigative Division

Chief Takasugi

____ Prefecture Police Headquarters for the Eradication of Drug-Related Crime

Shishibone Branch Head, ____ ____

Regarding incident _ designated as undercover investigation

This message is to inform you that a section of the testimony records of an incident under this police headquarters' jurisdiction has been found

that is thought to be related to the undercover investigation of the incident in question (Okinomiya Police Station X, Hinamizawa Village housewife slaughter incident).

During investigation of suspect ___ ___ who was arrested for possession of illegal drugs,

there was testimony alluding to the crime in question, and it became clear that it contained information that only the perpetrator could have known.

Therefore, we are prepared to share this record of testimony with you (duplicate attached).

If this testimonial is to be believed, then there is an extremely high chance that suspect ___ ___ was the perpetrator in the incident in question.

In addition, on receiving this testimony the head investigator on the case inquired as to the incident with the Okinomiya Police Station,

but the responsible party at Okinomiya Police Station misunderstood, and in compliance with the designation as an undercover investigation by executive order from prefectural police headquarters on July 1 (1982, general administration, B1-12)

they did not explain the incident's existence to the head investigator as they should have.

Because of this, the head investigator did not realize the importance of the testimony as it related to the case in question,

and as a result, was negligent when combing the scene; we apologize for having effectively ignored it until now.

In addition, there is a postscript stating that suspect ___ ___ died while in confinement yesterday on X/XX.