Wealthy Daughter Murder Case

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Episode 39-40 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Wealthy Daughter Murder Case
Original airdate:	November 25, 1996 (Part 1) December 2, 1996 (Part 2)
Season:	2
English version
English title:	Billionaire Birthday Blues
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Kogoro Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)
Staff
Director:	Kenji Kodama
Organizer:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Storyboard:	Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Episode director:	39 Kazuo Nogami 40 Yasuichiro Yamamoto
Animation director:	39 Izumi Shimura 40 Keiko Sasaki

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki

Case

Situation

Part 1

A billionaire hosts a birthday gala for his daughter Reika and the famous Detective Mouri is the celebrity guest of honor. But when one of Reika's handsome young suitors turns up dead, the remaining guests are suspects for murder. The stakes are soon raised, as Ran becomes a target for the assassin's sinister game. Before Conan can crack the case, yet another victim is discovered. With only a small group of friends remaining, who is behind these birthday brutalities?

Murder
290px	Location: Yotsui household grounds Victim: Yuji Nikaido Suspects: Takaya Mifune, Masashi Rokuda, Takashi Ichieda, Osamu Gojo, and Yone Nanano After Ms. Reika disappeared and everyone went to look for her, the corpse of Yuji Nikaido was found by Kogoro and Ran drowned in the fountain outside.

Attempted Murder
290px	Location: Yotsui household bathroom Victim: Ran Mouri Suspects: Takaya Mifune, Masashi Rokuda, Takashi Ichieda, Osamu Gojo, and Yone Nanano Ran was drugged by the culprit who put sleeping pills in her coffee. She was then carried by the culprit to a bathroom and had her face forced into a water-filled sink. The culprit left fled after Conan heard a suspicious sound and came running.

Murder
290px	Location: Yotsui household bathtub Victim: Reiko Yotsui Suspects: Takaya Mifune, Masashi Rokuda, Takashi Ichieda, Osamu Gojo, and Yone Nanano Ms. Reika disappeared after dinner, and her soaking wet body wasn't found until much later. She was found drowned, leaning face down over a bathtub full of water.

Part 2

When a beautiful heiress is murdered on her birthday, Conan springs into action to solve the baffling crime. The painful past of every suspect must be brought to light. Opening these old wounds is the only way to bring the killer to justice!

People

Reiko Yotsui
	Victim (drowned) 24 years old Yotsui Group heiress

Mr. Yotsui
	Reiko's father Yotsui Group Chairman

Takashi Ichieda
	26 years old City Bank main branch fund procurement division

Yuji Nikaido
	Victim (drowned) 27 years old AD agency sales department

Takuya Mifune
100px	26 years old Mifune Electronics President

Osamu Gojo
	24 years old Gojo Trading adjutant general

Masashi Rokuda
	40 years old Yotsui & co. LTD director

Yone Nanano
	64 years old Yotsui Family Housekeeper

Resolution

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The killer was Takashi Ichieda. Two years ago Mrs. Yone's granddaughter, Yaeko, died by drowning when she went searching for Reika and Nikaidou, who were stranded in a small isle in the sea. It turned out they took her swimming supplies and left her to die; Ichieda noticed the odd situation when Yaeko's body was found and asked them about it, but they denied everything and said they had not even seen Yaeko.

Ichieda, who actually was in love with Yaeko, kept his bad feelings to himself until Reika's 24th birthday. After isolating the group in the mansion, he first kidnapped Reika and kept her hostage in one of the bathrooms, bound and gagged inside a covered bath tub, getting everything ready so she would slowly drown. Then he confronted Nikaidou, and when he admitted his share of guilt, Ichieda drowned him outside with his own hands and left his lifeless body there. The attack on Ran wasn't intended to be fatal; he only needed a witness to throw suspicions off himself, making everyone believe that the assassin was an outside. Few later, a still kidnapped Reika drowned in the tub, and Ichieda pulled her lifeless body and left it next to said tub for everyone to find.

See also

• Season 2