Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, was locked up after cops found a severed head in a suitcase at his rental apartment in Osaka.
The former stepfather of an accused Long Island killer says he was stunned to learn that the man is suspected of murdering and dismembering a woman in Japan.
Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, was locked up after cops found a severed head stuffed into a suitcase inside his rental apartment in the city of Osaka.
“I always thought of him as being strange, but I never would have thought he would do something like this,” Bayraktar’s former stepfather Benny Dacy told the Daily News Tuesday.
Bayraktar has confessed to disposing a woman’s corpse — and even led police to more body parts, according to the Asahi Shimbun newspaper.
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The Mastic Beach man had been traveling in Japan since January when he met the woman through a “matchmaking” smartphone app, authorities said.
The unidentified victim met the suspect near the Osaka train station about midnight on Feb. 16.
The footage also showed a man believed to be Bayraktar carrying a large bag as he left the home between Feb. 16 and Feb. 18.
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But the woman was never seen leaving the pad, according to local reports.
Bayraktar was arrested in the city of Nara, about 75 miles away, on Thursday.
