Courtroom Confrontation IV: Juror Sumiko Kobayashi

Episode 606-607 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Courtroom Confrontation IV: Juror Sumiko Kobayashi
Season:	20
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Eri Kisaki Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Chronology
Prev episode:	« The Séance's Double Locked Room Mystery Case
Next episode:	White Day of Betrayal »
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Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Eri Kisaki Reiko Kujo Ai Haibara Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Midori Kuriyama Sumiko Kobayashi

People

Ryujiro Uematsu
	59 years old Principal of Teitan Elementary school

Toshio Iwamatsu
	35 years old Defendant

Tadashi Ishigaki
	Victim (stabbed)

Yukie Hara
	66 years old Housekeeper

Tooru Tsukano
	46 years old Victim's brother-in-law

Resolution

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The real culprit was Tsukano. His original plan was to stole the land deed that his sister had left for him but the victim had taken from him. The victim caught him while looking through the painting and threatened him to press charges so he ended up killing the victim. After killing him, Iwamatsu came so he decided to hide behind the door. Iwamatsu accidentally knocked the vase on the floor which he had taken advantage for hiding the knife. The housekeeper after hearing the noise rushed to the crime scene. Tsukano decided to pretend that he just arrived and checked the victim so that he would have an excused for the blood in his hands. Then after the housekeeper left to call the police and the ambulance, he took the vase to the garbage collection site outside hoping that the it would collected and disappear. But unfortunately it didn't so he decided to take the knife and the gloves out of it and throw it in the park pool.

See also

• Season 20