Ski Lodge Murder Case

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Episode 84-85
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Information

Title:

Ski Lodge Murder Case

Original airdate:

December 8, 1997 (Part 1)
December 15, 1997 (Part 2)

Season:

4

Manga source:

Volume 14: File 9~Volume 15: File 3

English version

English title:

Massacre Night

Case

Cast:

Conan Edogawa
Ran Mouri
Sonoko Suzuki
Professor Agasa

Case solved by:

Ran Mouri (via Shinichi Kudo)

Staff

Director:

Kenji Kodama

Organizer:

84 Kazuo Nogami
85 Kenji Kodama

Storyboard:

84 Kazuo Nogami
85 Kenji Kodama

Episode director:

Kazuo Nogami

Animation director:

84 Izumi Shimura
85 Yoshihiro Shimizu

Music

Opening song:

"Nazo"

Closing song:

"Negai goto hitotsu dake"

Gadgets introduced

Earring Cellphone
	A cellphone that can be worn on the ear and easily transported

Cast

Characters

Conan Edogawa

Ran Mouri

Sonoko Suzuki

Professor Agasa

Shinichi Kudo
(voice)

Gin
(background)

Vodka
(background)

Gadgets

Gadgets

Voice-Changing Bowtie

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan run into their old third grade teacher, Akiko Yonehara, who invites them to spend the night at a Mountain Villa. A mysterious journalist arrives and tells them a massacre similar to three years before will happen that night. Can Conan help find the clues before too much damage occurs?

Attempted Murder

Victim: Akiko Yonehara

Suspects: Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori

Attempted Murder

Victim: Sonoko Suzuki

Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori

Murder

Victim: Sugiyama

Cause of death: Strangulation

Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori

Part 2

Conan is unable to figure out how a piece of rope disappeared, but when he figures out who is wearing a wig, he realizes that the person has killed two people on the same night. Using Ran to reveal the secret by using his own voice, Shinchi reveals the information to everyone present, but the revelation will shock everyone involved, especially Ran and Sonoko.

Murder

Victim: Kohei Shimoda

Cause of death: Strangulation

Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori

People

Akiko Yonehara
	30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Kohei Shimoda
	Victim (strangled) 30 years old Haido Elementary School teacher

Ryuichi Sakai
	29 years old Haido Elementary School P.E. teacher

Minori Nakamura
	27 years old Haido Elementary School nurse

Sugiyama
	Victim (strangled) Haido Elementary School music teacher

Atsushi Mori
	37 years old Newspaper reporter

Minako Mochizuki
	Deceased Haido Elementary School student

Resolution

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The killer was Akiko Yonehara, inspired by the death of little Minako Mochizuki. Minako had found out that Sugiyama and another teacher (Shimoda, but she didn't tell that to Yonehara) were involved in a fraud, and added that she was planning to confront the unnamed teacher. The little girl was found hanged in the school gym few days later, and Yonehara deduced that she had been killed by Sugiyama and his accomplice.

Knowing the identity of only one of Minako's two murderers, Yonehara organized the trip to gather the teachers that she knew Minako was a fan of. She first killed Sugiyama and left his body out there to freeze and trick people in regards to the time of his death; later, she attacked Sonoko to have an alibi, then immediately afterwards pretended to be a victim as well (using Sugiyama's body to such effects), and used her lipstick to spell out Minako's name in all of these cases. Shimoda's panicked reaction upon realizing the last detail revealed his involvment, so she tricked him into meeting up with her and killed him as well.

The murder weapon was her wig: she had cut her hair too short for her liking a while ago and hid it via long wig, and then decided to use it to strange her victims (and Sonoko) without leaving clues.

Manga to anime changes

• The reason why Conan refrains from knocking out Ran is due to her nearly finding out his identity in The Cornered Famous Detective! Two Big Murder Cases. The anime omits this reason as it places the two stories in a different order.

See also

• Season 4