Dracula's Villa Murder Case

Episode 88-89 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Dracula's Villa Murder Case
Original airdate:	January 26, 1998 (Part 1) February 2, 1998 (Part 2)
Season:	4
English version
English title:	Vampire Villa
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Chronology
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Next episode:	The Flower Scent Murder Case »
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri

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.

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

Shuuichi Hamura
100px	33 years old North Kantou University Folklore Researcher

Daisuke Torakura
	Victim (stabbed) 50 years old Horror Novelist

Resolution

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The murderer was Todakoro, 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 Todakura had promised to pay for her medical bills in exchange for Todakoro's work. Torakura, however, bribed the Topkyo 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; Todakura kept lying to Todakoro, 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, Todakoro ultimately fell into despair and killed his mentor to punish him for what he had done to Kaori.

See also

• Season 4