Valentine Murder Case

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Episode 6 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Valentine Murder Case
Japanese title:	BARENTAIN satsujin jiken (バレンタイン殺人事件)
Original airdate:	February 12, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Tragic Valentine
English airdate:	June 1, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Bar code
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Toshiki Inoue
Storyboard:	Shigeru Morikawa
Episode director:	Yuji Yamaguchi
Animation director:	Takashi Hyoudo
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Ryo Horikawa as Katsuhiko Minagawa Tomoyuki Dan as Toshihide Wakamatsu Nobuo Tobita as Naomichi Sakiko Tamagawa as Yoshimi Watanabe Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kazue Ikura as Kaori Sekiya Chiyoko Kawashima as Minagawa's Mother Chiaki Morita as Susumu Minagawa
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Doki Doki
Closing song:	Step by Step

Characters and gadgets introduced

Sonoko Suzuki
	17 years old Ran's best friend

Stun-Gun Wristwatch
	A watch with a tranquilizer dart.

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Kogoro Mouri

Inspector Megure

Dr. Agasa

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Ayumi Yoshida

Shinichi Kudo (background)

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Minagawa household

Victim: Katsuhiko Minagawa

Suspects: Toshihide Wakamatsu, Kaori Sekiya, Yoshimi Watanabe, "Naomichi", Minagawa's Mother

Katsuhiko collapsed dead onto the ground from poison outside his house after eating a piece of Yoshimi's chocolate.

People

Katsuhiko Minagawa
	Victim (poison) Captain of the Beika University tennis club

Toshihide Wakamatsu
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Kaori Sekiya
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Yoshimi Watanabe
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

"Naomichi"
	Member of the Beika University tennis club

Minagawa's Mother
	Katsuhiko and Susumu's mother

Susumu Minagawa
	Katsuhiko's younger brother

Resolution

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• Evidence
  • Katsuhiko’s heart literally stopped on Valentines Day. And beside his dead body, a cigarette and a chocolate bar were found among his usual items.
  • Before the tragedy, he was in his small party where they ate and drank. In lieu with Valentine’s day, each girl gives a guy a bar of chocolate, to which the guy would consume preferentially.
  • Conan noticed that even though her son died, Katsuhiko's mother is doing the dishes.
  • Susumu drank the coffee, which makes his mother mad, but she suddenly had a change of heart and gave him some cake.

• Conclusion

After putting Inspector Kogoro to sleep with the Stun-Gun Wristwatch, Conan, using the Voice-Changing Bowtie, revealed how Katsuhiko’s real killer was his mother.

Katsuhiko does not smoke with filters, that’s why Naomichi’s attempt to poison him through this, failed. Meanwhile, his mother knew his habits, and put poison in his coffee, knowing that he wouldn’t eat the antidote in the cake. The reason she had a change of heart when Susumu drank the coffee is because he is drinking the poison, so she quickly gave him the antidote in the cake so he wouldn't die. She also framed Yoshimi by switching the chocolates she gave him with a half-eaten bar that Katsuhiko apparently ate. Though his mother immediately washed all the cups and switched the chocolates, poison lingers much deeper than the naked eye could see.

• Motive

When her husband’s business took a turn for the worse, Katsuhiko's mother had to think of the quickest way to acquire Katsuhiko’s estate, and save the house.

Katsuhiko is an orphan who was adopted by his only living relative when he was a kid. His foster mother knew he fell in love with Yoshimi since she closely resembled his deceased mother, so she framed her.

See also

• Season 1