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
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 Inspector Megure
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Next Conan's Hint:	Window
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 Inspector Megure Unsho Ishizuka as Souhei Tatsumi Kayoko Fujii as Kazumi Tatsumi Hideaki Tezuka as Shunsou 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 Inspector 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 Cause of death: Strangulation 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 allibi. 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 Shunsou Hirose reveals he was Kazumi's lover.

People

Souhei Tatsumi
	48 years old Lawyer Victim's husband

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

Shunsou Hirose
	30 years old Architect Victim'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.

See also

• Season 2