The Farewell Wine Murder Case

Episode 97 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Farewell Wine Murder Case
Original airdate:	April 13, 1998
Season:	4
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Chronology
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi

Case

Situation

A wealthy company president hires Kogoro after hearing one of his daughters is going to attempt to kill him, but when he is killed with video evidence, Conan and Kogoro must decipher the clues as to whom the real killer is.

People

Toshiaki Imamura
	55 years old Ichikawa family butler

Koutarou Ichikawa
100px	Victim (poison) 65 years old C.E.O. of Ichikawa Industries

Okano Hitoshi
	30 years old Koutarou's doctor

Kazue Ichikawa
	30 years old Koutarou's eldest daughter

Mizue Ichikawa
	27 years old Koutarou's second daughter

Resolution

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The kille was doctor Okano. In the past, Ichikawa ruined his family by making his father (who also was his business partner) go into bankruptcy, sending him into a spiral of drunkness and depression that finished when the elder Okano killed himself few after his ill wife died, when their son was about to enter college.

Okano could have killed Ichikawa in any moment, as his personal doctor. However, he kept his feelings aside, and only decided to kill his boss when he confided in him and said that he planed to test Kazue and Mizue's love for him, via feigning a heart attack and analyzing the ladies's reactions. Instead of following his boss's instructions, Okano used the "test" to kill thim: Kazue did intent to kill Ichikawa via poisoned wine, Okano took advantage to give him a fatal medicine overdose.

See also

• Season 4