The Unsmashable Snowman

Chronology
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Episode 466-467 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Unsmashable Snowman
Original airdate:	February 26, 2007 (Part 1) March 5, 2007 (Part 2)
Season:	16
Manga source:	Volume 54: Files 3~5
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Detective Boys Misao Yamamura
Case solved by:	Misao Yamamura (via Conan)

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ai Haibara Genta Kojima Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Misao Yamamura Professor Agasa Jodie Starling James Black

Gadgets

Gadgets
Voice-Changing Bowtie Stun-Gun Wristwatch

Plot

Part 1

The Detective Boys are at a small ski resort and meet up with four graduate students who are building a snowman for an art project. Later that evening, Sakuko Kokura, one of the graduate students, become lost in the blizzard and the two groups begin their search for her. Conan finds the Kokura dead at the bottom of a cliff in a lake.

Murder

The police declares that Kokura's death was a snowboarding accident. Conan notices that the body is missing a hat, goggles, and gloves and believes that she was murdered and one of the graduate students is the culprit.

Part 2

Genta trips and falls into the snow and comments how it was hard and salty. Conan realizes how the murder was done and gathers the suspects along with inspector Misao Yamamura.

People

Sakuko Kokura
	Victim (drowned) 22 years old University student

Tanji Kiyama
	22 years old University student

Asaka Onoe
	22 years old University student

Kazuya Itabashi
	22 years old University student

Resolution

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Conan tranquilizes Yamamura and impersonates him using his voice changing bow tie to reveal that the murderer is the graduate student Kazuya Itabashi. Conan reveals that during the snow storm, Kazuya used salt to harden the snowman he was working on. He then called Sakuko to his room where he drowned her in his sink which contained the water from the lake. Afterwords, he attached Sakuko's snow shoes on and placed her in the body of the hardened snowman and rolled her into the lake. He then used the Detective Boy's snowman to rebuild a new body for the snowman. As evidence, Conan reveals that the Detective Boy's snowman had their detective badges in their snowman which is now found in Kazuya's snowman. He also reveals that the forensic team should find traces of lake water or Sakuko's DNA in Kazuya's sink. Kazuya confesses to the crime revealing that Sakuko purposely disabled Asaka Onoe, one of the graduate students, out of envy; This sparked Kazuya's murder in the name of vengeance.

See also

• Season 16