Prosecutors on Sunday indicted a 30-year-old female suspect in a 1990 insurance-murder who surrendered to police in April after being on the wanted list for nine years.
Chie Matsuda, in collusion with a male accomplice, allegedly stabbed to death a 20-year-old employee of her jewelry shop in Fukuoka Prefecture in December 1990 after purchasing a life insurance policy worth 100 million yen on the victim.
She went on to kill a 27-year-old unemployed man she got to know at a telephone dating club and burned both bodies together on a car to make it appear as a double suicide, prosecutors said.
Matsuda stayed with her accomplice, Yoshikatsu Oda, 52, until November 1993, when Oda was arrested in a robbery case. She then fled from place to place to elude the police. Meanwhile, Oda was sentenced to death over the 1990 murder.
Ending a nine-year life on the run, Matsuda turned herself in at a police station in Fukuoka Prefecture in April.
While Oda killed both of the victims, Matsuda made arrangements for hiring the female victim and arranging the contract for the insurance policy, according to the court sentence against Oda. She also lured the male victim to the scene where he was killed.