Alibi Testimony Murder Case

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Episode 30 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Alibi Testimony Murder Case
Japanese title:	アリバイ証言殺人事件 (Aribai Shōgen Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	August 26, 1996
Broadcast rating:	13.7%
Filler case:	#10
Season:	2
Manga source:	TV Original
English version
English title:	The Missing Melody
Dubbed episode:	Episode 31
English airdate:	July 14, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Cassette tape
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Kumiko Shishido
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Chafurin as Juzo Megure Unsho Ishizuka as Souhei Tatsumi Kayoko Fujii as Kazumi Tatsumi Hideaki Tezuka as Shunzou Hirose Wataru Takagi as Policeman, Next Conan's Hint Isshin Chiba as Worker
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	Meikyū no Lovers

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Juzo Megure

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Case

Situation

Kogoro, Ran, and Conan are meeting a lawyer named Souhei Tatsumi who's office is in a hotel. While there Conan picks up a phone call from Souhei's wife Kazumi Tatsumi. During the phone call, an musical melody is heard from Kazumi's side. Souhei takes over the phone call and tells his wife he will call later and asks Conan and Ran to leave so he may talk with Kogoro. Kogoro returns telling Conan and Ran he took Souhei's request to spy on Kazumi and her affair. On the way home, they spot police cars in front of a house and decide to investigate. They found out it is Souhei Tatsumi's house. Inside they learn that Kazumi was found dead in the bathtub.

Murder

Location: Tatsumi household Victim: Kazumi Tatsumi Age: 27 years old Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Souhei Tatsumi When a high-powered attorney's wife is murdered under the strangest of circumstances, Conan steps in to make sense of it all. A music box, a telephone call and a staple all point to a killer no one would have expected. How will Conan solve the puzzle and convince everyone of the real criminal's identity?

Conan suspects Souhei to be the murderer but Kogoro confirms his alibi. Conan investigates the hotels and learns the hotel room beside Souhei's is reserved for guests and also learns the musical melody from a musical box alarm clock is custom made for that hotel. At Kazumi's funeral, a man named Shunzou Hirose reveals he was Kazumi's lover.

People

Souhei Tatsumi
	48 years old Lawyer

Kazumi Tatsumi
	Victim (strangled) 27 years old Tatsumi's wife

Shunzou Hirose
	30 years old Architect Kazumi's lover

Resolution

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The officers plan to arrest him until Conan tranquilizes Kogoro. Impersonating Kogoro's with his voice changing bowtie, Conan reveals Souhei Tatsumi to be the culprit. He reveals that after Tatsumi was done with Kogoro, he murdered his wife who was in the guest room beside him. Afterwards he placed his wife in a bag and put her down a chute to the bottom floor. He then went to the bottom floor, placed her body in the trunk and drove her home where he then placed her body in the bathtub. As evidence, Conan gives Megure a tape of the alarm clock in Tatsumi's guest room to compare with the recorded phone call. The alarm clock in the guest room is revealed to have a missing note and matches with the musical melody in the phone call. Souhei confesses to the murder and reveals Kazumi was blackmailing him for money in order to keep his corrupt deeds as a lawyer hidden.

Translation changes

Anime

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

• Souhei Tatsumi - Samuel Taylor
• Kazumi Tatsumi - Catherine Taylor
• Shunzou Hirose - Steve Jacobus

Trivia

• This is the first episode that the culprit purposely used Kogoro as his alibi.
• This is the first time that the culprit used a change the corpse's location trick.

BGM listing

#	Song Title	Romaji	Translation	OST
1	胸がドキドキ	Mune ga Dokidoki	The Pounding of My Heart	Mune ga Dokidoki
2	蘭のテーマ	Ran no Tēma	Ran's Theme	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
3	犯人のアジト （忍び込みver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Shinobikomi ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (Creeping In ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
4	悪のテーマ （パート２）	Aku no Tēma (Pāto 2)	Theme of Evil (Part 2)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
5	沈む夕陽１	Shizumu Yūhi 1	Depressing Sunset 1	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
6	事件現場 （謎ver.）	Jiken Genba (Nazo ver.)	Scene of the Case (Mystery ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
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	犯人のアジト （いよいよver.）	Hannin no Ajito (Iyoiyo ver.)	The Culprit's Hideout (More and More ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
9	推理 （オリジナルver.）	Suiri (Orijinaru ver.)	Deduction (Original ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
10	対決のテーマ （落ち着きver.）	Taiketsu no Tēma (Ochitsuki ver.)	Showdown Theme (Calm ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 2
11	コナンのテーマ （バラード・ヴァージョン)	Konan no Tēma (Barādo・Vājon)	Conan's Theme (Ballad ver.)	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1
12	迷宮のラヴァーズ	Meikyū no Lovers	Lovers' Labyrinth	Meikyū no Lovers
13	コナンの勝利	Konan no Shōri	Conan's Victory	Detective Conan Original Soundtrack 1

In other languages

Language	Title	Translation
Arabic	المجرم الذي ظن نفسه ذكيا	The Criminal Who Thought He Was Clever
Basque	Hilketa eta koartada	Murder and alibi
Catalan (Balearic dub)	Es cas de sa coartada falsa	The fake alibi case
Catalan (Catalonia dub)	El cas de la falsa coartada	The fake alibi case
Catalan (Valencian dub)	Testimonis d'una coartada	Alibi witnesses
French	Un Alibi parfait	A Perfect Alibi
Galician	A coartada perfecta	The Perfect Alibi
German	Ein wasserdichtes Alibi	A Watertight Alibi
Italian	Un avvocato nel mistero	A Lawyer in Mystery
Spanish (American dub)	La coartada perfecta para un asesinato	Perfect alibi for a murder
Spanish (Castilian dub)	Testigos de una coartada	Alibi witnesses
Thai	คดีฆาตกรรมพยานอ้างอิง	Alibi murder Case
Vietnamese	Vụ án nhân chứng ngoại phạm	The Alibi Testimony Case

See also

• Season 2