Ski Lodge Murder Case

Episode 84-85 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
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
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
Chronology
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Next episode:	The Kidnapping Location Case »
List of episodes

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

Attempted Murder
	Victim: Sonoko Suzuki

Murder
	Victim: Sugiyama Cause of death: Strangulation

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

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 change

• 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