Wealthy Daughter Murder Case

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Episode 39-40 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Wealthy Daughter Murder Case
Japanese title:	資産家令嬢殺人事件 (Shisanka Reijō Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	November 25, 1996 (Part 1) December 2, 1996 (Part 2)
Broadcast rating:	17.4% 17.1%
Manga case:	#24
Season:	2
Manga source:	Volume 9: File 7 (087) ~ Volume 10: File 1 (091)
English version
English title:	Billionaire Birthday Blues
Dubbed episode:	Episode 40-41
English airdate:	July 29, 2004 (Part 1) August 2, 2004 (Part 2)
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Takuya Mifune
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	A black-out (Part 1) Shirt stains (Part 2)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	39 Kazuo Nogami 40 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	39 Izumi Shimura 40 Keiko Sasaki
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Naoko Matsui as Sonoko Suzuki Rieko Takahashi as Reika Yotsui Hiroshi Nakano as Takashi Ichieda Takumi Tsutsui as Yuji Nikaido Hitoshi Ooya as Takuya Mifune Shirou Ishimoda as Osamu Gojo Ryûzaburô Ôtomo as Masashi Rokuda Reika Suzuki as Yone Nanao Hirao Jinshou as Chairman Yotsui Wataru Takagi as Driver, Next Conan's Hint
Music
Opening song:	Feel Your Heart
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Characters introduced

Takuya Mifune
	26 years old Mifune Electronics president

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Part 1

A billionaire hosts a birthday gala for his daughter Reika and the famous Detective Mouri is the celebrity guest of honor. But when one of Reika's handsome young suitors turns up dead, the remaining guests are suspects for murder.

Murder
	Location: Yotsui household grounds Victim: Yuji Nikaido Age: 27 Years old Cause of death: Drowning Suspects: Takashi Ichieda, Takuya Mifune, Osamu Gojo, Masashi Rokuda, and Yone Nanao After Ms. Reika disappeared and everyone went to look for her, the corpse of Yuji Nikaido was found by Kogoro and Ran drowned in the fountain outside.

The stakes are soon raised, as Ran becomes a target for the assassin's sinister game.

Attempted Murder

Location: Yotsui household kitchen Victim: Ran Mouri Crime: Shoved to Drown Suspects: Takashi Ichieda, Takuya Mifune, Osamu Gojo, Masashi Rokuda, and Yone Nanao Ran was drugged by the culprit who put sleeping pills in her coffee. She was then carried by the culprit to a kitchen and had her face forced into a water-filled sink. The culprit left fled after Conan heard a suspicious sound and came running.

Before Conan can crack the case, yet another victim is discovered.

Murder
	Location: Yotsui household bathtub Victim: Reika Yotsui Age: 24 Years old Cause of death: Drowning Suspects: Takashi Ichieda, Takuya Mifune, Osamu Gojo, Masashi Rokuda, and Yone Nanao Ms. Reika disappeared after dinner, and her soaking wet body wasn't found until much later. She was found drowned, leaning face down over a bathtub full of water.

With only a small group of friends remaining, who is behind these birthday brutalities?

Part 2

When a beautiful heiress is murdered on her birthday, Conan springs into action to solve the baffling crime. The painful past of every suspect must be brought to light. Opening these old wounds is the only way to bring the killer to justice!

People

Reika Yotsui
	Victim (drowned) 24 years old Yotsui Group heiress

Mr. Yotsui
	Reika's father Yotsui Group chairman

Takashi Ichieda
	26 years old City Bank main branch fund procurement division

Yuji Nikaido
	Victim (drowned) 27 years old AD agency sales department

Takuya Mifune
	26 years old Mifune Electronics president

Osamu Gojo
	24 years old Gojo Trading adjutant general

Masashi Rokuda
	40 years old Yotsui & co. LTD director

Yone Nanao
	64 years old Yotsui family housekeeper

Yaeko Nanao
	Deceased Yone's granddaughter

Resolution

  Show spoilers »

The killer is Takashi Ichieda. Two years ago Mrs. Yone's granddaughter, Yaeko, died by drowning when she went searching for Reika and Nikaido, who were stranded in a small isle in the sea. It turned out they took her swimming supplies and left her to die; Ichieda noticed the odd situation when Yaeko's body was found and asked them about it, but they denied everything and said they had not even seen Yaeko. Gotou had also asked them about Yaeko, but he didn't suspect them at all; everyone else believed that Yaeko had simply drowned, with her grandmother even saying that she sacrificed her life to rescue Reika and Nikaido.

Ichieda, who was in love with Yaeko, kept his bad feelings to himself until Reika's 24th birthday. After isolating the group in the mansion, he first kidnapped Reika and kept her hostage in one of the bathrooms, bound and gagged inside a covered bath tub, getting everything ready so she would slowly drown. The proof of this is Reika disappeared around 10 PM but she wasn't killed until 5 or 6 AM which means the she was left for 7 or 8 hours before her death. Second proof is her clothes, they couldn't possibly get that wet, no matter how much she struggled. Third proof is the duct tape and rope on the corpse. Ichieda switched the faucet and shower so that he could fill the bath quietly. To prevent somebody finding the corpse in the tub, he burned out the bulbs beforehand to keep people from coming through. Ichieda checked the bathtub himself and told the others that Reika is not there to fool them. He then created his alibi by staying with Kogoro all the time. As soon as he could he confronted Nikaido, and when he admitted his share of guilt, Ichieda drowned him outside with his own hands and left his lifeless body there;

To throw people off again, Ichieda used the air conditioners and microwaves to turn off the lights by themselves. First, he set all the air conditioners to turn on at a set time using their remote controls. Then, he set the microwaves so that they turn on at the same time as well. When the time came, the electricity usage of the mansion will suddenly spark and the breaker will overload making the lights go out. The proof is that the remote controls still display the timer as set to 12:30, which is when the lights went out. Also, Conan heard the sound of the microwave. The microwaves there operate with dials so they will still work even without electricity. Another proof is when Conan touch the microwave, it was warm. Lastly, a little while before the lights went out, Ichieda went into the kitchen to pretend to search for Reina. He could easily set the microwaves when no one is looking.

After turning off the lights, Ichieda broke a window in the dark and made it look like the killer ran away so that they will give chase. He then took the unguarded Ran to the kitchen and tried to drown her. He even drugged her beforehand so that she wouldn't be able to struggle. When he put the pill in, he could have turned the cup, moved the spoon, or done any number of things to identify the cup: all he had to was to avoid it. Also, it didn't matter who took the cup: It just happens that Ran was the one who took the drugged one. The attack on Ran wasn't intended to be fatal; he only needed a witness to throw suspicions off himself (by making everyone believe that the assassin was an outsider), and give fake evidence that the assassin had killed Reika in the same fashion.

Few later, a still kidnapped Reika drowned in the tub. Ichieda pulled her lifeless body and left it next to said tub for everyone to find. The proof that only Ichieda can commit the murder is the water on his undershirt. All of the suspects in fact have water on their shirts. However, the water on Goujo's sleeve is from when he washed his hands and the water on Mifune's collar is from when he washed his face. On the other hand, Ichieda's elbow got water. This is the proof that he took his jacket first before water got on them. He took his jacket so that it wouldn't get wet when he commit the murder. His elbows are wet because he rolled his sleeves up.

Ichieda admits that he killed Reika and Nikaido and tells them about them murdering the sweet and gentle Yaeko, who had gone to help them but was repaid with abandonment and death. He then proudly says that the two deserved to be murdered for what he had done... but Mrs. Yone angrily calls him a fool. She then goes to Reika's corpse and closes her eyes, saying that even when she cannot forgive the two victims for what they did to Yaeko, she belives that no one deserves to die violently because whenever that happens, someone else will cry and grieve.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Reika Yotsui - Rieka Gilmore
• Mr. Yotsui - Robert Gilmore
• Takashi Ichieda - Donald Hilbler
• Yuji Nikaido - Steve Sloan
• Osamu Gojo - Michael Stewart
• Masashi Rokuda - Dirk Copeland
• Yone Nanao - Nonee
• Yaeko Nanao - Sonja

Names

The surnames of the suspects/members of the sailing club all have numbers; 一(ichi), or one, for Ichieda, 二（ni),or two, for Nikaidou,三(san),three, for Mifune, 四(yon), or four, for Yotsui, 五(go), five, for Gojou, 六(roku), six, for Rokuda, and 七(nana),seven, for Nanao.

BGM listing

Part 1

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	想い出	Omoide	Memories	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	蘭のテーマ （音コンテ）	Ran no Tēma (Oto Konte)	Ran's Theme (Sound Cue)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
8	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
9	事件現場２	Jiken Genba 2	Scene of the Case 2	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart	Feel Your Heart
2	コナンの勇気	Konan no Yūki	Conan's Courage	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
3	忍び寄る影	Shinobiyoru Kage	Creeping Shadow	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
4	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
5	新一の名推理	Shin'ichi no Meisuiri	Shinichi's Great Deduction	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
6	陰謀	Inbō	Conspiracy	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
7	事件現場 （オリジナルver.）	Jiken Genba (Orijinaru ver.)	Scene of the Case (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
8	コナンの危機	Konan no Kiki	Conan's Crisis	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack Super Best
9	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
10	西の名探偵	Nishi no Meitantei	The Great Detective of the West	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
11	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
12	沈む夕陽	Shizumu Yūhi	Depressing Sunset	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
13	怪人包帯男１	Kaijin Hōtai Otoko 1	The Mysterious Bandaged Man 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
14	事件の謎	Jiken no Nazo	Mystery of the Case	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 3
15	名探偵コナン・メインテーマ （ヴォーカル・ヴァージョン)	Meitantei Konan・Mein Tēma (Vōkaru・Vājon)	Detective Conan Main Theme (Vocal ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
16	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
17	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

Gallery

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  Conan, the victim and the suspects

• EP39-40 Case.jpg

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	جريمة قتل الوريثة	Heiress Murder
Catalan	El cas de l'hereva assassinada	The Case of the Murdered Heiressl
French	Le Meurtre de l'héritière	The Murder of the Heiress
German	Geld stinkt nicht	Money Does Not Stink
Italian	La giovane ereditiera	The Young Heiress
Galician	O caso da herdeira asasinada	The case of the murdered heiress
Spanish	El caso de la heredera asesinada	The case of the murdered heiress

See also

• Season 2