The Missing Fiancée

Ryuji Matsuo
	23 years old; Mover;

Shigemi Terakado
	67 years old; Spinster;

Chronology

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The Missing Fiancée (消えたフィアンセ ,Kieta Fianse^?) is the 817th episode of the Detective Conan anime.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

One afternoon, an old woman named Shigemi Terakado and the mover Ryuji Matsuo were planning to rid a young woman named Motoko Kawaguchi from existence. Their plan was to murder her and bury her in the mountains.

After that, a man named Haruki Toriumi hired Kogoro to investigate his missing fiancée, the aforementioned Motoko. Toriumi felt that she must have gotten in an incident, so Kogoro and Conan investigated.

Three nights ago, Motoko said that she suddenly decided to move and had movers to pick up her stuff. On the same night, she also suddenly decided to quit her job. Motoko suddenly disappeared from her home and workplace. Another young lady named Suda Kumi appeared and asked where Motoko was. She said that they ran into each other in the city at that evening, that Motoko was her usual self and said that she was going to meet up with Terakado.

Kogoro and Conan went and asked Terakado about Motoko, since Terakado owed Motoko much for looking after her. She said she hadn't seen Motoko for a month. But her neighbor, Mitsue Uno, said that Terakado met Motoko three days ago. She also said that Motoko was causing trouble to Terakado, via extorting her fir money. This made Kogoro and Conan believe that Terakado was lying and killed Motoko Kawaguchi with the help of Ryuji Matsuo, who moved her stuff.

Murder

Location: Shigemi Terakado's room

Victim: Motoko Kawaguchi

Age: 25 years old

Cause of death: Blunt force trauma

Suspects: Shigemi Terakado

Mitsue Uno said that Terakado met Motoko three days ago. She said that Motoko was causing trouble to Terakado. This made Kogoro and Conan believe that Terakado was lying and killed Motoko Kawaguchi.

People

Motoko Kawaguchi
	Victim (bashed) 25 years old Office worker

Haruki Toriumi
	33 years old Motoko's fiancé

Katsuko Okubo
	45 years old Apartment landlady

Kumi Suda
	25 years old Motoko's friend

Mitsue Uno
	55 years old Shigemi's neighbor

Wasuke Konishi
	Passerby

Resolution

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Kogoro and Conan find out that Kawaguchi's disappearance was originally a planned fake murder by Terakado, Matsuo, Kumi and Mitsue to save Kawaguchi from her fiancée Toriumi, who is extremely self-centered and arrogant. Kawaguchi therefore asked to break off the engagement, but Toriumi refused in order to preserve his public face. In her desperation, Kawaguchi contacted her friends, and they worked together to create a fake murder scenario and enable Motoko to start a new life somewhere else. But Haruki Toriumi learned about the plan, and unwilling to marry a woman who loathed him, he turned Kawaguchi's scheme against her.

Toriumi confronted Kawaguchi, who confessed everything. Kawaguchi thought he would understand her desperation, but instead he dragged her into his car and strangled her to death, then hid her body in the mountains. The cuff link, a special-order item which Toriumi had received just before the deed and fell off when he kidnapped Kawaguchi (with his and Kawaguchi's fingerprints on it), is evidence that they met at that evening.

Murder

Location: Unknown

Victim: Motoko Kawaguchi

Age: 25 years old

Cause of death: Strangulation

Culprit: Haruki Toriumi

Toriumi knew about the "fake murder" plan, so he confronted Motoko, dragged her into his car and killed her by strangulation.

After killing her, Toriumi hired Kogoro to expose Kawaguchi's friends and their fake plan so that Toriumi could scapegoat them as Motoko's "murderers" and throw suspicion off himself. The decisive edivence is a witness account describing how Toriumi had steered his car towards a mountain road to hide Kawaguchi's corpse. Toriumi tries to make a run for it, but Terakado, Matsuo, Kumi and Mitsue stop him. They also are on scene when Kawaguchi's body is recovered on Yamanashi Prefecture, paying their final respects to their dear departed friend. Kogoro, in the meantime, jubilates about another successfully resolved case, until he remembers that he didn't get paid for it.

Trivia

Haruki Toriumi drives a 2015 white Lexus RC [SC10].
The panel van is a Subaru Sambar.

Gallery

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In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Catalan (Catalan dub)	La promesa desapareguda	The missing fiancée
Thai	คู่หมั้นที่หายไป	The Vanished Fiancee
Vietnamese	Vị hôn thê biến mất	The Disappeared Fiancée

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