The American tourist suspected of decapitating his date then putting her severed head in a bag and the rest of her body scattered in woods during a vacation in Japan is a former US airmen and 'mama's boy' from Long Island, it has been revealed.
Yevgeniy Vasilievich Bayraktar, 26, remains in custody in Osaka, Japan, after allegedly murdering Saki Kondo then mutilating her body at his vacation rental.
Bayraktar was on vacation in Japan and was believed to have been alone.
He met Kondo on a dating app, either Tinder or Matchapp, according to Tokyo Sports.
She was last seen on February 15 and was seen entering Bayraktar's rented apartment with him on surveillance cameras. Kondo, 27, never emerged again but he was seen exiting the rental with several bags.
He was arrested on February 22 in a different rental after she was reported missing. Police found the woman's head in a bag in a short-term lodging room in Osaka.
Afterwards, he led police to her severed torso and the rest of her body which he had scattered in the woods in Shimamoto, 25 miles away.
Bayraktar lives in Long Island ordinarily and grew up in the US after moving when he was nine with his mother Regina when she married a Texan she had met online.
That man told The New York Post this week that Bayraktar was spoiled by his 'selfish' mother who abandoned her husband after he brought her and her son into the country and financed her nursing studies.
'He was a mama's boy. If we were having dinner and he didn’t like the food, his mother would get up in the middle of the meal to cook him something special, and this was at a time when we didn’t have a lot of money,' Benny Dacy, Bayraktar's former stepfather, said.
'He and his mother were very close. He and I were not,' Dacy said.
Bayraktar briefly served in the Air Force before being discharged in 2012. It is not known why he was left but he was there for just 11 months.