Blood brothers: Suspect in Japanese murders 'is sibling of Peru’s Apostle of Death serial killer'

A Peruvian being held in Japan over a suspected killing spree is thought to be the brother of a man dubbed “The Apostle of Death”, considered Peru’s most prolific serial murderer.

Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena, 30, is unconscious in a hospital with a fractured skull after plunging from the second floor of a house while being pursued by police, local Japanese media reported. Kyodo said he slashed his wrists before his fall.

Nakada Ludena is the prime suspect after six people were found stabbed to death in three homes over the space of three days in a residential neighbourhood near Tokyo, police said Thursday.

Police believe Nakada Ludena killed 41-year-old Miwako Kato and her two daughters, aged 10 and seven, on Wednesday. Their brutalized bodies were found stuffed into two closets in their home in the usually quiet suburb of Kumagaya, northeast of Tokyo.

They also fear he was responsible for the death of 84-year-old Kazuyo Shiraishi, whose body was reportedly found in a bathtub in her home around 100 meters away hours earlier.

On Monday, police found a couple in their 50s, Minoru and Misae Tasaki, stabbed to death at their house in the same neighbourhood.

Nakada Ludena is believed to have killed the people randomly after he fled from a police station where he was being questioned on Sunday, after being found in an incoherent state in a fire station, local media reported.