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This is a list of criminal cases which [[Kogoro Mouri]] has solved, or at least made vital contributions to, with little to (rarely) no direct intervention or assistance from [[Conan Edogawa|Conan]], fulfilling his role not as a proxy or stand-in but as an active and capable investigator.

== Manga/TV episodes ==
=== [[Volume 9#Kogoro's Class Reunion|Volume 9, File 084-086: Kogoro's Class Reunion]] ===
(TV Title: 27-28, ''[[Kogoro's Class Reunion Murder Case]], Parts 1 and 2'')

With Conan drawing his attention to the facts that the victim was wearing an overly large yukata and that the estimated time of death was faked by accelerated rigor mortis through physical exertion just prior to her death, Kogoro is able to expose the culprit by himself.

=== [[Volume 17#Scuba Diving Case|Volume 17, Files 163-165: Scuba Diving Case]] ===
(TV Title: 114-115, ''[[Scuba Diving Murder Case]], Parts 1 and 2'')

While he is once more used by Conan as a front to solve the murder attempt case at hand, Kogoro is able to figure out by himself that his wife Eri has actually lost her wedding band (instead of just taking it off, as she claimed), and recovers it for her.

=== [[Volume 37#Kogoro's Childhood Friend Murder Case|Volume 37, Files 374-376: Kogoro's Childhood Friend Murder Case]] ===
(TV Title: 305-306, ''[[The Unseen Suspect]], Parts 1 and 2'')

Upon thoroughly checking the crime scene, Kogoro immediately deduces who the actual murderer is, requiring only slight directions from Conan to counter the claims of the suspect's daughter, who tries to protect her father, regarding important clues about the murder weapon.

=== [[Volume 45#Baseball Player Case|Volume 45, Files 463-465: Baseball Player Case]] ===
(TV Title: 371-372, ''[[A Course Without Protest]], Parts 1 and 2'')

With some hints provided by Conan, Kogoro is able to demolish the murderer's alibi and even manages to set up his own trap to trick the murderer into revealing the location where he disposed the murder weapon and other incriminating evidence.

=== [[Volume 51#Russian Blue Cat Case|Volume 51, Files 528-529: Russian Blue Cat Case]] ===
(TV Title: 445, ''[[Secret of the Russian Blue]]'')

By surreptitiously leaving cat treats in strategic places for Goro to lead Kogoro to important clues, Conan allows Kogoro to gradually able to piece the clues together by himself and unravel the true meaning of the message his client asked him to decipher.

=== [[Volume 62#Judo Champion Case|Volume 62, Files 643-645: Judo Champion Case]] ===
(TV Title: 528, ''[[Might Over Mystery]], Parts 1 and 2'')

Kogoro deduces on his own that the call from the murderer's husband was actually just a recording to fake her alibi, and has faked a recording of a Mahjong session to help his wife stumble upon that clue.

=== [[Volume 68#Eri's Birthday Murder Case|Volume 68, File 709-711: Eri's Birthday Murder Case]] ===
(TV Title: 589-590, ''[[The Worst Birthday]], Parts 1 and 2'')

Conan initiates a little accident with a serving wagon and some sauce, making Kogoro finally realize that the culprit used model cars to move the heavy bed in order to hide and later re-reveal the corpse of his victim.

=== [[Volume 70#Demon Dog Murder Case|Volume 70, File 734-740: Demon Dog Murder Case]] ===
(TV Title: 612-613, ''[[Inubushi Castle, The Ablazed Demon Dog]], Parts 1 and 2'')

Upon hearing about the fact that several of the heirs in that case had changed their names, Kogoro deduces quite aptly their actual birth names on his own, even though he ultimately comes to the wrong conclusion regarding the culprit's identity.

=== [[Volume 71#File 748 - The Other A|Volume 71, File 748: The Other A]] ===
(TV Title: 619, ''[[Holmes' Revelation|Holmes' Revelation (Code Break)]]'')

By marking and connecting the locations where they found the clues on a map of London, Kogoro manages to reveal the place where Sabara Hades intends to strike (even though his idea of Hades using bombs tied to balloons is a little bit far-fetched).

=== [[Volume 74#East vs. West|Volume 74, File 779: East vs. West]] ===
(TV Title: 651, ''[[Conan vs. Heiji, Deduction Battle Between the Detectives of the East and West]]'')

While not directly involved in the ongoing murder investigation, Kogoro contributes to the case by having himself, [[Ran Mouri|Ran]] and [[Kazuha Toyama|Kazuha]] order the same dishes the three suspects have been consuming to verify their testimonies, leading to Conan solving the case ahead of [[Heiji Hattori|Heiji]].

=== [[Volume 78#Tennis Meetup|Volume 78, File 825-827: Tennis Meetup]] ===
(TV Title: 705-706, ''[[Conan in a Locked Room]]'' and ''[[Conan in a Locked Room|Bourbon Figures It Out]]'')

Conan was unable to tranquilize Kogoro because of [[Rei Furuya|Bourbon]]'s appearance, therefore he chose to hint him so he could solve the case by himself.

=== [[Volume 97#Nagano Snowy Mountains Case|Volume 97, File 1027-1031: Nagano Snowy Mountains Case]] ===
(TV Title: 1003-1005, ''[[The 36-Cell Perfect Game]]'')

Just by discussing, Kogoro was able to figure out the truth at the same time as Conan, [[Rei Furuya|Amuro]] and [[Kanenori Wakita|Wakita]].

== TV only episodes ==
=== Episode 53: [[The Mystery Weapon Murder Case]] ===
After Conan has cracked the case and drawn Kogoro's attention to the way the victim was murdered, Kogoro works out the details of the crime quite well by himself.

=== Episode 150-151: [[The Truth Behind the Car Explosion Case]] ===
After Conan has roused his suspicions, Kogoro works out the identity of the culprit and the details of the crime, which included a murder plot against the perpetrator turned against its conceivers, out on his own, with Conan adding only one - but highly important - detail.

=== Episode 260: [[The Shaking Restaurant]] ===
While he did not solve the actual murder, Kogoro was able to deduce the trick for the original murder plot.

=== Episode 283: [[The Mystery of the Water-Flowing Stone Garden]] ===
Again, Kogoro was able to figure out the original murder plot but Conan was the one who found the actual murderer.

=== Episode 299-300: [[The Kanmon Strait of Friendship and Murderous Intent]] ===
Kogoro manages to figure out how the alibi was created and even pinpoint a culprit, however he gets a major detail wrong and Conan has to step in.

=== Episode 540-541: [[The Day Kogoro Mouri Ceased Being a Detective]] ===
In short order and independently from Conan, Kogoro realizes that he has become the victim of a carefully arranged deception, with the culprit having disguised himself as his prospective victim to gain an alibi. Conan refrains from interfering directly, limiting himself to drawing clues to a piece of vital evidence.

=== Episode 596: [[The Alibi of the Fall]] ===
Kogoro manages to figure out the murder trick but Conan is the one who figures out the culprit and their alibi trick.

=== Episode 721: [[Fire and Water Mystery Tour]], Part 2 ===
In order to catch Justin's elusive kidnapper, Kogoro hatches a plan of him and several Kunamoto police officers disguising themselves as samurai costume actors, which takes the culprit by surprise. In the end, however, the apprehended man only turns out to be a freeloader who wanted to snatch the ransom for his own use, so Conan has to resort to stunning Kogoro yet again to expose the true perpetrator.

=== Episode 789: [[The Queen's Weather Forecast]] ===
Kogoro manages to deduce one part of the trap that ultimately leads to the death of the victim, although Conan has to step in for the second part of the trap and the actual culprit.

=== Episode 794: [[Bodyguard Kogoro Mouri]] ===
In his duty as a bodyguard, Kogoro manages to pull of an ingenious trick, overpowering the would-be assassin and working out his ''modus operandi'' for the attempted murder plot.

=== Episode 802: [[Tottori Sand Dunes Mystery Tour]], Part 2 ===
In the second part of this episode, Kogoro aptly manages to deduce the actual motive behind the robbery of the Kumado family incense burner, and the identity of the culprits responsible. However, he comes to the wrong conclusion about the identity of the mastermind behind the scheme, so Conan resorts to stunning him once again in order to bring the case to a smooth conclusion.

=== Episode 819: [[Kogoro's Pursuit of Rage]], Part 2 ===
In the second part of this episode, Kogoro hits upon a desperate but ingenious solution to rescue his [[Ran Mouri|daughter]]. On his televised appeal, he claims that Ran has made numerous pictures of the concert hall on her phone camera, thus likely catching the image of someone who was "not supposed to stand in a certain place" at a certain time. This statement makes the offender seek out the place where Ran was entombed alive, inevitably leading to the exposure of their involvement as the mastermind of the original kidnapping scheme.

=== Episode 833: [[The Great Detective's Weakness]] ===

=== Episode 842: [[Turning Point on a Driving Date]] ===
While on a date with [[Kei Nakanishi]], Kogoro hears from her the story of her friend [[Remi Kirisaki]]'s possible suicide. After hearing all about the details of the case, Conan pieces together the strange elements of the case and figures out that Kei killed her friend. Conan wants to stun Kogoro to make his deduction, but seeing that Kogoro realized it by himself, refrains from doing so. After his deduction, Kogoro brings Kei to the police station where she turns herself in.

=== Episode 875: [[The Mysterious Prophetic Buddha]] ===
Even though he did not solve the actual murder, he managed to figure out the trick used in the original murder attempt with one little hint from Conan.

=== Episode 979: [[Leading a Detective Around By the Nose]] ===
Kogoro deduces the real culprit and target fully on his own without Conan’s help at all.

=== Episode 1065: [[Detectives Don't Sleep]] ===
Originally, Conan wanted to tranquilize Kogoro, but the needle hit a flying baseball. Conan then gave Kogoro several hints, and Kogoro managed to solve the case.

=== Episode 1082: [[The Alley of Sad Betrayal]] ===
Kogoro manages to deduce the real culprit on his own, but he can't figure out the weapon used, so Conan has to step in.

== OVAs ==
=== OVA 05: [[The Target is Kogoro!! The Detective Boys' Secret Report]] ===
While Kogoro's intellectual and deductive skills are initially not in hard demand here, he demonstrates true professionalism when his observation turns into a kidnapping and blackmail case, with some support from the [[Detective Boys]].

== Movies ==
=== Movie 09: [[Strategy Above the Depths]] ===
Because of one of the culprits' striking similarity with his wife [[Eri Kisaki|Eri]], Kogoro works all the harder to prove her innocence, only to discover her true guilt in the matter. This is also the first case which he solves without direct promptings from Conan.

=== Movie 13: [[The Raven Chaser]] ===
By chance, Kogoro is able to deduce the location for the last planned murder from the star constellation of the Big Dipper and Polaris quite independently, if a bit belatedly, from Conan for the joint police commission.

== Live Action Dramas ==
=== Drama Special II: [[Shinichi Kudo Returns! Confrontation with the Black Organization]] ===
Kogoro manages to save [[Shinichi Kudo|Shinichi]]'s life from [[Gin]] and [[Vodka]] when he notices that the hotel has left the lights on in a select number of suites, to illuminate the Kanji "Suzu" (as in Suzuki) on its front. Shinichi turned off the light on top of the second Kanji syllable, thereby inadvertently marking his refuge.

== See also ==
* [[Kogoro Mouri]]

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