Facial Mask Murder Case

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Episode 45 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Facial Mask Murder Case
Japanese title:	顔パック殺人事件 (Kaopakku Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 27, 1997
Season:	2
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Unexpected Visitors
Dubbed episode:	Episode 46
English airdate:	August 10, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Shogi
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Inspector Megure Zen Ishikawa as Takeo Izumi Chikako Akimoto as Ikuko Kojima Shino Oyamada as Chihiro Kojima Nobuaki Fukuda as Juro Yoshioka Isshin Chiba as Guard A Wataru Takagi as Guard B, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Kogoro Mouri

Ran Mouri

Inspector Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Another day, another case as Kogoro stumbles upon the death of the President of a popular apparel company. Just why would the President be wearing an unflattering facial mask if she had been expecting company? It's just one of the many perplexing elements of a most unusual case!

Murder

Location: Kojima household

Victim: Ikuko Kojima

Cause of death: Manual strangulation

Suspects: Takeo Izumi, Chihiro Kojima, and Juro Yoshioka

People

Takeo Izumi
	25 years old TM Security Company

Ikuko Kojima
	Victim (strangled) 50 years old Business woman

Chihiro Kojima
	28 years old Ikuko's daughter

Juro Yoshioka
	48 years old Discoverer of body

Resolution

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The killer was Takeo Izumi. He killed his boss Ikuko when she first threatened to take him to court for a huge lost sum of money, then openly and cruelly told him that she had asked Izumi's much loved parents into selling their country land for his sake. So Izumi lost it and strangled Ikuko with his own hands, and one of her contact lenses fell in his clothes.

The person who actually met up with the police, however, was Ikuko's daughter Chihiro, wearing similar bed clothes and a mask on. She did so after finding Ikuko's body, trying to avert being signaled as the culprit.

Dub changes

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

• Takeo Izumi - Oswald Burny
• Ikuko Kojima - Charlize Karmichael
• Chihiro Kojima - Marion Karmichael
• Juro Yoshioka - Cramden Yodlemiere

Gallery

See also

• Season 2