Dracula's Villa Murder Case

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Episode 88-89
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Information

Title:

Dracula's Villa Murder Case

Japanese title:

ドラキュラ荘殺人事件
(Dorakyura-sō Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

January 26, 1998 (Part 1)
February 2, 1998 (Part 2)

Season:

4

Manga source:

TV Original

English version

English title:

Vampire Villa

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Kogoro Mouri

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Paint (Part 1)
Paint (Part 2)

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Hirohito Ochi

Storyboard:

Hirohito Ochi

Episode director:

Hirohito Ochi

Animation director:

88 Kumiko Shishido
89 Izumi Shimura

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Jun Hazumi as Daisuke Torakura
Koji Yusa as Toshiya Tadokoro
Yorie Terauchi as Etsuko Torakura
Yasuo Muramatsu as Fumio Doi
Sho Hayami as Shuichi Hamura
Yukiko Iwai as Female voice

Music

Opening song:

"Nazo"

Closing song:

"Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake"

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

A famous vampire writer who used to be a romance writer, and whom Kogoro reads, invites Kogoro to his estate for discussion on his next vampire novel and to spy on his wife. However, when the writer ends up dead and snow prevents the cops from coming Kogoro is forced to re-evaluate the possibilities of vampires being real.

Murder

Location: Torakura Household Study Room

Victim: Daisuke Torakura

Cause of death: Stab wound

Suspects: Toshiya Tadokoro, Etsuko Torakura, Fumio Doi, and Shuichi Hamura

Part 2

With no footprints to reveal the killer, Conan must think of how the door was locked and then find enough evidence to solve the case or else a killer and his hidden secret will walk free with a vampire receiving the blame.

People

Toshiya Tadokoro
	26 years old Daisuke Torakura's student

Etsuko Torakura
	30 years old Daisuke Torakura's wife

Fumio Doi
	48 years old Monthly Horror Times editor-in-chief

Shuichi Hamura
	33 years old North Kantou University Folklore researcher

Daisuke Torakura
	Victim (stabbed) 50 years old Horror novelist

Kaori Tadokoro
	16 years old Toshiya Tadokoro's younger sister

Resolution

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The murderer is Toshiya Tadokoro, Torakura's student and ghost writer, in punishment for Torakura causing the death of his younger sister Kaori. Kaori was gravelly ill due to kidney failure, and Torakura had promised to pay for her medical bills in exchange for Tadokoro's work. Torakura, however, bribed the Tokyo doctor taking care of her to keep her merely stable instead of healing her; the longer her stay in the hospital was, it would be the better. This deal ultimately caused young Kaori's death, a year before the murders; Torakura kept lying to Tadokoro, making him believe Kaori was still alive but in an American hospital.

The Tokyo nurse who took care of Kaori but couldn't save her life was so guilt-ridden that, one month before the event, she told Todakoro the truth, remarking on how Kaori had called out to him even in her last moments. And so, Tadokoro ultimately fell into despair and killed his mentor to punish him for what he had done to Kaori.

The crux of the crime involved how Tadokoro entered the victim's locked room. The snow on the roof was not disturbed but he could still traverse it without doing so by connecting a ladder from one roof to the other. The vampire reel Tadokoro left running was not only for pure horror but to allow him to shut the window he entered without leaving any fingerprints. One end of the film strip was tied to the door and would slam it shut once it ran out. He prepared a duplicate stake to be left in the mansion's cellar beforehand, remedying the impossibility of him retrieving a murder weapon from such a tight location. He could be the only one to kill the victim as he claimed to have heard the film reel running in the room, impossible as the door was soundproofed.

Dub changes

• The names of the characters in the Funimation Dub are:

• Toshiya Tadokoro - Jonathan Tradonio
• Etsuko Torakura - Daiselle Van Croven
• Fumio Doi - Foster Drake
• Shuichi Hamura - Shamus O'Halliwell
• Daisuke Torakura - Stefan Van Croven

Gallery

See also

• Season 4