A Haunted Mansion Murder Case

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Information

Title:

The Haunted Mansion Murder Case

Japanese title:

幽霊屋敷殺人事件
(Yuureiyashiki Satsujin Jiken)

Original airdate:

June 17, 1996

Season:

1

Manga source:

Volume 2: Files 8-10 (017-019)

English version

English title:

The Disappearing Act

English airdate:

June 28, 2004

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Detective Boys
Ran Mouri
Professor Agasa

Case solved by:

Conan Edogawa

Next Conan's Hint:

Fu dog

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Organizer:

Kuchiru Kazehara

Storyboard:

Kuchiru Kazehara

Episode director:

Ikuro Sato

Animation director:

Masatomo Sudo

Voice cast:

Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa
Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri
Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa
Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint
Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya
Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida
Hiroshi Yanaka as Akio
Reiko Yamada as Akio's mother
Tomomichi Nishimura as Akio's father

Music

Opening song:

"Mune ga Doki Doki"

Closing song:

"Step by Step"

Gadgets introduced

Elasticity Suspenders
	Functions like a pulley Can be used to lift heavy objects

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ayumi Yoshida

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

Genta Kojima

Ran Mouri

Professor Agasa

Case

Situation

Murder

Location: Mansion on 4-chōme

Victim: Akio's father

Conan, Genta, Mitsuhiko, and Ayumi explore a haunted house. With strange noises and mysterious scream around every corner, what they find is more tangible and bizarre than any ghost.

People

Akio's father
	Victim Mansion owner

Akio
	Missing man

Akio's mother
	Missing woman

Resolution

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Evidence

• There is a working secret entrance that allows entry or exit onto the grounds without being seen by anyone else.
• The house still has running water.
• A window had been left open with no signs of wind or rain wear.
• The house shows no overt signs of life, but the kids smell something cooking.

Conclusion

• The house is not abandoned, but rather hides the dead mansion owner's wife and son, Akio.

• Akio killed his father with a single blow to the head. Unlike many other suspects, Akio had actually intended to turn himself in as soon as he could, but his mother decided to protect him. Her "protection", however, meant locking Akio in the basement until the statute of limitations for the murder expired and he couldn't be prosecuted. He tried to convince his mother otherwise but she was so desperate to not lose her only child that she wouldn't listen to his pleas. Eventually, as she attempts to kill the children for snooping in the now abandoned home, Akio manages to stop his mother and insist that he should atone for his crime; this time he is successful, and they turn themselves in together.

Motive

• Akio killed his father in the heat of an argument over how he had flunked an important university exam, having impulsively grabbed a bronze candle holder and hit his father in the head with it.

Manga to anime changes

• The manga version of the story marks the debut of Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Ayumi Yoshida and Genta Kojima. In the anime, they appear in the first episode.

See also

• Season 1