The White Sandy Beach Murder Case

Episode 113 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The White Sandy Beach Murder Case
Japanese title:	白い砂浜殺人事件 (Shiroi Sunahama Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	August 17, 1998
Season:	5
Manga source:	Special Volume 1: File 6
English version
English title:	Prescription for Murder
Dubbed episode:	Episode 119
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Feather
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Yutaka Yamada
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	Kazuo Nogami
Animation Director:	Hirobi Muranaka
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kazusa Murai as Tomoko Yamada Akimasa Ohmori as Tanaka Yuzuru Fujimoto as Old detective Isshin Chiba as Customer Yoshiko Okamoto as Lady Eiji Maruyama as Old man Wataru Takagi as Barkeeper, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Unmei no Roulette Mawashite
Closing song:	Kōri no Ue ni Tatsu Yō ni
Chronology
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

A young woman named Mitsuko is found by a reef drowned in what appears to be a suicide. When information that the town's doctor had been intimate with her in the past is revealed, and Mitsuko's best friend Tomoko insists it was murder, both Conan and Kogoro suspect she is right and that suicide is impossible. Now the two must find the clues before his drinking alibi fully comes through... but what to do when Tanaka was actually drinking with Kogoro himself?

Murder
	Location: Underwater Victim: Mitsuko Sekine Cause of death: Drowning Suspects: Dr. Tanaka

People

Tanaka
	Doctor in the local hospital

Tomoko Yamada
	Mitsuko's best friend Waitress at a local pub

Mitsuko Sekine
	Victim (drowned)

Policeman
	Police officer

Resolution

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Tomoko tearfully said that she suspected Dr. Tanaka of being the killer, and she was right. Tanaka killed poor Mitsuko since she was his girlfriend at the time, but he had been offered a very good arranged marriage to his boss's beautiful daughter. Thinking that Mitsuko's presence would ruin an alliance that would further his career, he decided to get her out of the way definitely.

Tanaka brought a floating ring and hid it, then called Mitsuko for a date. He drugged Mitsuko and took her to the seaside; then he tied up a boulder to her bare feet, put the floating ring around her and left her ashore. The waves took the still unconscious Mitsuko inside the sea and soon she was at the bottom of the sea, unable to escape and ultimately drowning. Meanwhile, Tanaka was out drinking with other friends of his (and with Kogoro, Ran, and Conan around as well), and this was his alibi.

The biggest mistakes that Tanaka commited were:

• Buying the floating ring in the village. Conan asked around and easily found the person who sold it to Tanaka, who was told by him that he'd give it to a friend's child as a gift; he also shwed around some photos, with the seller recognizing the ring.

• Tying Mitsuko's feet in a way that, when photos were compared to Ran doing likewise under orders of Kogoro-via-Conan, was highly suspicious. They were tied up with the string's ends towards her toes, instead of the other way round; that was a proof that she had not tied the boulder to her own body, but somebody else had done so.

See also

• Season 5