Ski Lodge Murder Case

Episode 84-85 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Ski Lodge Murder Case
Japanese title:	スキーロッジ殺人事件 (Sukii Rojji Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	December 8, 1997 (Part 1) December 15, 1997 (Part 2)
Season:	4
Manga source:	Volume 14: File 9 (139-140) ~ Volume 15: File 3 (141-143)
English version
English title:	Massacre Night
Dubbed episode:	Episode 87-88
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Professor Agasa
Case solved by:	Ran Mouri (via Shinichi Kudo)
Next Conan's Hint:	Hair (Part 1) Trains (Part 2)
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
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Mikiko Maki as Akiko Yonehara Ryuji Mizuno as Kohei Shimoda Ryuichi Nakamura as Ryuichi Sakai Miki Yamazaki as Minori Nakamura Ryûzaburô Otomo as Atsushi Mori Wataru Takagi as Local man, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Negai Goto Hitotsu Dake
Chronology
Prev episode:	« General Hospital Murder Case
Next episode:	The Kidnapping Location Case »
List of episodes

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Professor Agasa Shinichi Kudo (voice) Gin (background) Vodka (background)

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Earring Cellphone

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
	Location: Ski Lodge - 1F (Yonehara's room) Victim: Akiko Yonehara Suspects: Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori While Sonoko was making bed, she heard a sound of Yonehara's glass fell on the floor in the next room and went there only to find Yonehara unconscious on the floor!

Attempted Murder
	Location: Ski Lodge - 1F (Yonehara's room) Victim: Sonoko Suzuki Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori As soon as Sonoko entered the room, the culprit appeared from behind the door and used anesthetic to put her to sleep then attempt to strangle her with rope!

Murder
	Location: Ski Lodge - Front Door Victim: Sugiyama Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Kohei Shimoda, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, and Atsushi Mori When the doorbell rang, the group went to the front door only to find Sugiyama's body fall down in front of their eyes covered in snow!

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

Location: Ski Lodge - 2F (Shimoda's Room) Victim: Kohei Shimoda Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Akiko Yonehara, Ryuichi Sakai, Minori Nakamura, Both Nakamura and Yonehara heard a voice from cellphone from Shimoda's room and went to ask him to shut it off. They discovered that he was murdered! As Conan have been sitting at the stairway for entire night, one of the three teachers on the second floor must be the murderer who still has the weapon with his/herself, however after a body search, the weapon is not found!

With Agasa's help, Conan was able to get very important information about "Minako".

Suicide? (Past)
	Location: Haido Elementary School - Valleyball Club Room Victim: Minako Mochizuki Cause of death: Hanging A girl named Minako was found hanged in Valleyball Club Room. It was speculated that the reason is she was stressed from an exam.

People

Akiko Yonehara
	Victim (beaten) 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 (suicide by hanging) 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 his name to Yonehara) were involved in a fraud, and added that she was planning to confront the unnamed teacher. The girl was found hanged in the school gym few days later, and while everyone thought Minako had commited suicide under the effect of stress over the upcoming exams, 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 a very long wig, and then decided to use it to strange her victims (excluding Sonoko as seen in the picture) without leaving clues.

Manga to anime changes

• 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.

Dub changes

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

• Akiko Yonehara - Anne Preston
• Kohei Shimoda - Paul Keen
• Ryuichi Sakai - Brett Shore
• Minori Nakamura - Shelly Tilton
• Sugiyama - Larry Sullivan
• Atsushi Mori - Drake Ziegman
• Minako Mochizuki - Moreen Manahan

See also

• Season 4