An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case

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Information
Title:	An Idol's Locked Room Murder Case
Japanese title:	アイドル密室殺人事件 (Aidoru Misshitsu Satsujin Jiken)
Original airdate:	January 22, 1996
Season:	1
Manga source:	Volume 1: Files 6-9 (006-009)
English version
English title:	Beware of Idols
Dubbed episode:	Episode 3
English airdate:	May 26, 2004
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Yoko Okino Professor Agasa Detective Boys Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Neon sign
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Screenplay:	Junichi Miyashita
Storyboard:	Masato Sato
Episode director:	Masato Sato
Animation director:	Akio Kawamura
Voice Cast: Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa Kappei Yamaguchi as Shinichi Kudo Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri Akira Kamiya as Kogoro Mouri Kenichi Ogata as Professor Agasa Chafurin as Inspector Megure Wataru Takagi as Genta Kojima, Next Conan's Hint Ikue Otani as Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Yukiko Iwai as Ayumi Yoshida Yuri Amano as Yoko Okino Asoko Dodo as Yuko Ikezawa Kazuya Ichijo as Eiichi Yamagishi Hitoshi Horimoto as Forensics officer Isshin Chiba as Cop
Music
Opening song:	Mune ga Dokidoki
Closing song:	STEP BY STEP

Characters introduced

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Gadgets introduced

Voice-Changing Bowtie
	Grants ability to imitate voices

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Professor Agasa Ayumi Yoshida Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya Genta Kojima Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Conan declines to walk home from school with classmates Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko. He arrives at the Mouri Detective Agency to see that without work, Kogoro spent all day drinking beer and watching his favorite popstar, Yoko Okino, on TV. When a client arrives during one of her shows, Kogoro even tries to make them return later — until he realizes that the client is Yoko Okino herself, accompanied by her manager. Kogoro quickly makes himself presentable and hears her concerns about a recent stalker. He agrees to investigate at her apartment, and Ran and Conan tag along. Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko were watching the agency and also follow, so when the front door opens everyone sees the body on the floor inside.

Murder
	Location: Yoko Okino's apartment Victim: Akiyoshi Fujie Cause of death: Stab wound Suspects: Yoko Okino, Yuko Ikezawa, and Eiichi Yamagishi Upon opening the door to Yoko Okino's apartment to investigate a series of pranks and a possible stalker, Conan and the others discovered Fujie lying dead on the floor with a knife in his back.

People

Yoko Okino
	22 years old Idol/Pop-star

Yuko Ikezawa
	Idol/Pop-star Yoko Okino's rival

Eiichi Yamagishi
	Yoko Okino's manager

Akiyoshi Fujie
	Victim (stabbed)

Resolution

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Evidence

• Conan discovers a hoop earring underneath a couch in Yoko's apartment. Yoko reveals this earring belongs to Yuko Ikezawa, her rival.
• Yuko, despite claiming never to have been in Yoko's apartment before, seems to know where the bathroom is located and that the Statue of Liberty figurine in the apartment is actually a lighter.
• Yamagishi explains that Yoko's apartment's spare key has been missing for awhile.
• Yamagishi removed a strand of hair from Fujie's hand when he pretended to slip on the floor. When Conan retrieves the hair, he realizes Yamagishi must think it belongs to Yoko.
• Conan discovers an odd indentation mark on the floor as well as traces of water. He also notes that it is strange that only a chair is standing upright on the floor near the body while the rest of the room is in shambles.
• Megure upon entering Yoko's apartment, notes that the room seems to be at an unusually hot temperature.

Conclusion

Conan knocks Kogoro unconscious by kicking him in the head with an ashtray. Using the voice-changing bowtie, Conan as Kogoro reveals the truth behind the strange things that happened to Yoko, as well as the murder.

Yuko is responsible for the missing apartment key, threatening phone calls, etc. This is why Yuko knew where Yoko's bathroom was and why she knew the Statue of Liberty was actually a lighter.

Conan as Kogoro reveals that the Fujie's murder was not a murder at all; Fujie committed suicide by freezing a knife inside a block of ice, grabbing a hair from Yoko's hairbrush and then falling backwards onto the knife from the chair in the room. The odd indentation in the floor was caused by the knife when Fujie landed on it. The water spots on the floor are from the melted ice. Before killing himself, Fujie turned up the heat in Yoko's apartment in order to melt the ice, and therefore evidence, away.

Motive

Yuko's motive for playing mean pranks and tricks on Yoko was to frighten her and find potential scandal material.

Fujie's motive for committing suicide was Yuko's startled reaction to Fujie grabbing her by the shoulder. Fujie used to be Yoko's boyfriend until Yamagishi asked him to break up with her for the sake of Yoko's career. Mistaking Yuko for Yoko, whom he still loved, Fujie took this reaction to mean that Yoko never wanted to see him again. Unable to bear the thought, Fujie committed suicide, framing Yoko for the murder in despairing revenge.

Manga to anime changes

• In the anime, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta introduce themselves to Conan and follows him on the case. The Detective Boys don't appear in the manga until the haunted mansion case in the next volume.

Gallery

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  After three days, Conan still has no leads on the men in black.

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  Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta offer to be Conan's friends and walk home with him, but he declines.

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  Professor Agasa has a new invention to help Conan, the Voice-Changing Bowtie.

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  Kogoro can't believe his eyes - his newest client is popstar Yoko Okino!

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  Someone is stalking Yoko.

See also

• Season 1