The Locked Wine Cellar

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Episode 235 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	The Locked Wine Cellar
Original airdate:	May 28, 2001
Season:	9
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Officer Chiba Officer Tome
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri Officer Chiba Officer Tome Wataru Takagi Inspector Megure

Case

Situation

Mouri, Ran and Conan are invited to a private party by a President of a financial business, who is known for his expensive collection and various tastes in wine. Three other guests attend and all of which have borrowed money from the president. He challenges one of the guests, a training similar to a tasting challenge that if he guesses all of the wines correctly he will forget his debt. As the sommelier guesses two of the wines correctly the president gets frustrated and goes to his wine cellar for a rare wine. They all realize that the president has taken too long and discover his dead body in the wine cellar which has been found locked. Fingerprints have been found on the door by two of the suspects yet Conan discovers the clues and in the end uses Mouri with the aid of Takagi and Chiba to reanact how the criminal killed the President. The criminal confesses that they killed the president because he rose the interest on their debt and they couldn't pay.

Murder
	Location: Kusaka household Victim: Shohei Kusaka Cause of death: Strangulation Suspects: Takeo Nonaka, Jyokichi Tonomura, and Yukari Takano

People

Shohei Kusaka
	Victim (strangulation) 52 years old President of financial business

Takeo Nonaka
	42 years old Company president

Jyokichi Tonomura
	40 years old Sommelier

Yukari Takano
	38 years old Art museum owner

Toshiko Kusaka
	Shohei Kusaka's wife

Resolution

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The culprit turned out to be Takeo Nonaka. He comitted the crime by first knocking on the windows in the wine cellar. Kusaku then deactivated the alarm system and opened the windows. Nonaka then got Kusaku to come outside, and then killed him. Nonaka then used Kusaku's key to lock the door, and replaced it in his pocket. Back outside the window, he put the body on two metal poles, and secured the poles to him by putting them through his belt. He then put the poles through the window, tilted them, and the body was placed in the position it was found. Lastly he put a string around the hook on the window, and pulled, which closed it. The proof is his wine-soaked hankercheif that he used to wipe the poles clean of wine.

See also

• Season 9