The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case

Episode 72 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Triplet's Country Home Murder Case
Japanese title:	三つ子別荘殺人事件 (Mitsugo Bessō Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	August 18, 1997
Season:	3
Manga source:	Volume 13: Files 2-4 (122-124)
English version
English title:	Triple Terror
Dubbed episode:	Episode 74
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ayako Suzuki Sango Yokomizo Yuzo Tomizawa
Case solved by:	Sonoko Suzuki (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	The movement of the tides
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Kazuo Nogami
Storyboard:	Kazuo Nogami
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation Director:	Hiromi Muranaka
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Chiharu Suzuka as Ayako Suzuki Akio Otsuka as Sango Yokomizo Hirotaka Suzuoki as Taichi Tomizawa Keiichi Nanba as Tatsuji Tomizawa Yasunori Matsumoto as Yuzo Tomizawa Ko Tomita as Tetsuharu Tomizawa Isshin Chiba as TV announcer Wataru Takagi as TV announcer, Next Conan's Hint Yukiko Iwai as Answering machine voice
Music
Opening song:	Nazo
Closing song:	Kimi ga Inai Natsu
Chronology
Prev episode:	« A Stalker's Murder Case
Next episode:	The Detective Boys' Disaster Case »
List of episodes

Characters introduced

Yuzo Tomizawa
	28 years old Ayako Suzuki's fiancé

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Ayako Suzuki Sango Yokomizo

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Murder

Victim: Tetsuharu Tomizawa Cause of death: Beaten to death Suspects: Yuzo Tomizawa, Tatsuji Tomizawa, and Taichi Tomizawa Conan and Ran are at Sonoko’s place for her big sister, Ayako. Ayako is getting married so she’s there to meet her new dad-in-law. She’s marrying a man and when they are at their house, they witness a murder outside in the rain. The victim is the dad-in-law, Tetsuharu Tomizawa. The killer at first looks like Ayako’s fiancé, but then they find out he's the younger of triplet sons. Which of the triplets is the real murderer: eldest son Taichi, second son Tatsuji, or youngest son Yuzo?

People

Yuzo Tomizawa
	28 years old Painter Ayako Suzuki's fiancé Tatsuji and Taichi's brother

Tetsuharu Tomizawa
	Victim (beaten) 60 years old Yuzo, Tatsuji, and Taichi's father President of the Tomizawa Financial Group

Tatsuji Tomizawa
	28 years old Office worker Yuzo and Taichi's brother

Taichi Tomizawa
	28 years old Novelist Yuzo and Tatsuji's brother

Resolution

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Conan is sure its one of the triplets. Since Kogoro isn't with them, he uses Sonoko instead. Turns out it's the eldest triplet, Taichi Tomizawa. He was having a hard time writing a good novel so he decided the best way to do this was to live out a murder mystery. It didn't help that he and his father had a huge fight before the murder, in which Tomizawa Sr. threatened to disinherit him for not living up to the family name.

Manga to anime changes

• In the manga, Conan's second attempt to fire a tranquilizer dart at Sonoko is foiled by Ran who catches him behind the door, prompting him to get Ran and Sonoko to solve the mystery together. When his question fails to guide them in the right direction, Conan tries and succeeds at firing his dart. In the anime, he is successful on his second attempt.

Dub changes

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

• Yuzo Tomizawa - Tod Appenheimer
• Tetsuharu Tomizawa - Rodrick Appenheimer
• Tatsuji Tomizawa - Tad Appenheimer
• Taichi Tomizawa - Ted Appenheimer
• Hirmoi (Tatsuji's fiance) - Madeline (Tad's fiance)
• Kogure (Player from the Falcon Baseball Team) - Beasley (Player from the Falcon Baseball Team)

See also

• Season 3