Dracula's Villa Murder Case

Episode 88-89 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Dracula's Villa Murder Case
Japanese title:	ドラキュラ荘殺人事件 (Dorakyura-sō Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 26, 1998 (Part 1) February 2, 1998 (Part 2)
Season:	4
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	Vampire Villa
Dubbed episode:	Episode 91-92
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Paint (Part 1) Paint (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Hirohito Ochi
Storyboard:	Hirohito Ochi
Episode director:	Hirohito Ochi
Animation Director:	88 Kumiko Shishido 89 Izumi Shimura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Next Conan's Hint Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Next Conan's Hint Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Jun Hazumi as Daisuke Torakura Koji Yusa as Toshiya Tadokoro Yorie Terauchi as Etsuko Torakura Yasuo Muramatsu as Fumio Doi Sho Hayami as Shuichi Hamura Yukiko Iwai as Female voice
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Crane's Return of a Favor Murder Case
Next episode:	The Flower Scent Murder Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

A famous vampire writer who used to be a romance writer, and whom Kogoro reads, invites Kogoro to his estate for discussion on his next vampire novel and to spy on his wife. However, when the writer ends up dead and snow prevents the cops from coming Kogoro is forced to re-evaluate the possibilities of vampires being real.

Murder
	Location: Torakura Household Study Room Victim: Daisuke Torakura Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Toshiya Tadokoro, Etsuko Torakura, Fumio Doi, and Shuichi Hamura

Part 2

With no footprints to reveal the killer, Conan must think of how the door was locked and then find enough evidence to solve the case or else a killer and his hidden secret will walk free with a vampire receiving the blame.

People

Toshiya Tadokoro
	26 years old Daisuke Torakura's student

Etsuko Torakura
	30 years old Daisuke Torakura's wife

Fumio Doi
	48 years old Monthly Horror Times editor-in-chief

Shuichi Hamura
	33 years old North Kantou University Folklore researcher

Daisuke Torakura
	Victim (stabbed) 50 years old Horror novelist

Kaori Tadokoro
	16 years old Toshiya Tadokoro's younger sister

Resolution

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The murderer is Toshiya Tadokoro, Torakura's student and ghost writer, in punishment for Torakura causing the death of his younger sister Kaori. Kaori was gravelly ill due to kidney failure, and Torakura had promised to pay for her medical bills in exchange for Tadokoro's work. Torakura, however, bribed the Tokyo doctor taking care of her to keep her merely stable instead of healing her; the longer her stay in the hospital was, it would be the better. This deal ultimately caused young Kaori's death, a year before the murders; Torakura kept lying to Tadokoro, making him believe Kaori was still alive but in an American hospital.

The Tokyo nurse who took care of Kaori but couldn't save her life was so guilt-ridden that, one month before the event, she told Todakoro the truth, remarking on how Kaori had called out to him even in her last moments. And so, Tadokoro ultimately fell into despair and killed his mentor to punish him for what he had done to Kaori.

The crux of the crime involved how Tadokoro entered the victim's locked room. The snow on the roof was not disturbed but he could still traverse it without doing so by connecting a ladder from one roof to the other. The vampire reel Tadokoro left running was not only for pure horror but to allow him to shut the window he entered without leaving any fingerprints. One end of the film strip was tied to the door and would slam it shut once it ran out. He prepared a duplicate stake to be left in the mansion's cellar beforehand, remedying the impossibility of him retrieving a murder weapon from such a tight location. He could be the only one to kill the victim as he claimed to have heard the film reel running in the room, impossible as the door was soundproofed.

Dub changes

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

• Toshiya Tadokoro - Jonathan Tradonio
• Etsuko Torakura - Daiselle Van Croven
• Fumio Doi - Foster Drake
• Shuichi Hamura - Shamus O'Halliwell
• Daisuke Torakura - Stefan Van Croven

See also

• Season 4