Facial Mask Murder Case

Episode 45 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Facial Mask Murder Case
Original airdate:	January 27, 1997
Season:	2
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yuuichi Higurashi
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation Director:	Keiko Sasaki
Chronology
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Murder
	Location: Kojima household Victim: Ikuko Kojima Suspects: Takeo Izumi, Chihiro Kojima, and Juurou Yoshioka Another day, another case as Rogoro 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!

People

Takeo Izumi
	25 years old TM Security Company

Ikuko Kojima
	Victim 50 years old Business woman

Chihiro Kojima
	28 years old Ikuko's daughter

Juurou 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.

See also

• Season 2