The Antique Collector Murder Case

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Episode 16
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Information

Title:

The Antique Collector Murder Case

Original airdate:

May 20, 1996

Season:

1

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Kogoro Mouri
Inspector Megure

Case solved by:

Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Next Conan's Hint:

Elevator girl

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Screenplay:

Yasushi Hirano

Episode director:

Hirohito Ochi

Animation director:

Haruo Ogawara

Voice cast

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri
Chafurin as Inspector Megure
Kiyoshi Kobayashi as Yuji Suwa
Ryuji Nakagi as Makoto Akutsu
Shigeru Ushiyama as Ikuya Hatano
Saburo Kamei as Denjiro Maru
Naoko Koda as Inako Maru
Rin Mizuhara as Saori
Yukiko Iwai as Kumi
Wataru Takagi as Police officer

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Maru household

Victim: Denjiro Maru

Suspects: Ikuya Hatano, Yuji Suwa, Makoto Akutsu

Damian Maru, an antique collector, asks Richard to investigate his wife's affair. Maru is later found pinned to a wall with a katana. The crime scene has been shredded with a sword and clues point to different people who had scheduled meetings with the collector.

People

Denjiro Maru
	Victim 51 years old Chairman of the Maru Group

Ineko Maru
	34 years old Denjiro's wife

Ikuya Hatano
	Suspect 37 years old Denjiro's physician

Makoto Akutsu
	Suspect 48 years old Engraver

Yuji Suwa
	Suspect 46 years old Instructor at the Suwa Dojo

Kumi
	Maru's house staff

Saori
	Maru's house staff

Resolution

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• Conclusion

Using his gadgets to use Richard, Conan reveals that the killer is Jackie.

While Jackie was fiddling with the answering machine to prove he wasn't the killer, with the last of his strength, Mr.Monrue wrote Jackie's name on the drawers for a dying message to prove he was the killer. When Jackie noticed this, he shuffled the drawers then added a few more markings so it couldn't be recognized, and marked the rest of the room so it wouldn't stand out, to erased a dying message from the police's eyes.

Jackie then charge to Richard with a sword to kill him, but he stop when the sword hits the head, cause Richard must be so brave to just stay there in the face of death. The sword left a wound in his head, so when Richard woke up he noticed blood coming out of his head, then he freaks out.

• Motive

Jackie's family had an antique sword that was passed down from generation to generation, but Mr.Monrue sold it. Jackie couldn't control his anger that Mr.Monrue sold his family heirloom, so he gave him the kill.

See also

• Season 1