A 48-year-old man arrested in a robbery case has made statements suggesting his involvement in the murder case of a 21-year-old college student in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, in October, investigative sources said Monday.

The man, arrested in mid-November in connection with a robbery case in the prefecture, closely resembles a man in security camera footage withdrawing cash from a bank account of Yukari Ogino, a Chiba University senior, a day before she was found murdered at her burned apartment in Matsudo, east of Tokyo, they said.

"The man who withdraw cash from the automated teller machine was me," the arrested man told police, according to the sources.

Chiba prefectural police will investigate the arrested man's possible links with the murder case, they said.

Ogino, who went out of contact on the night of Oct. 20, was found dead with stab wounds to the neck and chest after the apartment where she lived alone was destroyed in an arson attack on the night of Oct. 22.

The police believe the cause of her death was hemorrhagic shock as a result of her being stabbed in the chest several times with a knife, the sources said. The deepest stab wound reached near her heart with a length of about 11 centimeters.

In the security camera footage, made public by the police in early November, a man, wearing a blue shirt and a cap, was withdrawing about 20,000 yen from Ogino's bank account at an ATM near JR Matsudo Station in the vicinity of her apartment on Oct. 21.