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: File 8~10
English version
English title:	The Disappearing Act
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys
Case solved by:	Conan Edogawa
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 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
Chronology
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List of episodes

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 4th Street 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

• Conclusion

• Motive

Akio killed his dad in the heat of a discussion because he had flunked an important university exam. In the middle of the fight, Akio lost it and took a bronze candle handler and hit his father in the head with it, killing him.

Unlike many other suspects, Akio had actually intended to turn himself in as soon as he could, but his mother decided to protect him. By "protecting him", she meant locking Akio in the basement until he couldn't be prosecuted. He tried to convince his mom otherwise but she was so desperate to not lose her only child that she wouldn't listen to his pleas. Eventually, as she attempted to kill the children for snoping in the now abandoned home, Akio managed to stop his mother and insist that he should atone for his crime; this time he was succesful, and they turned themselves in together.

Trivia

• The manga version of the story marks the debut of Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, Ayumi Yoshida and Genta Kojima.

See also

• Season 1