Ski Lodge Murder Case

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Episode 84-85 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Ski Lodge Murder Case
Original airdate:	December 8, 1997 (Part 1) December 15, 1997 (Part 2)
Season:	4
English version
English title:	Massacre Night
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki
Case solved by:	Ran Mouri (via Shinichi Kudo)

Gadgets introduced

Earring Cellphone
	A cellphone that can be worn on the ear and easily transported

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Ran Mouri Sonoko Suzuki Dr. Agasa Shinichi Kudo (voice)

Case

Situation

Part 1

Ran, Sonoko, and Conan run into their old third grade teacher Ms. Preston who invites them to spend the night at a Mountain Villa. Bo sooner do they arrive than a mysterious journalist arrives and tells them a massacre similar to three years before will happen that night. Can Conan help find the clues before too much damage occurs?

Murder - Attempted Murder
290px	Victim: Sugiyama, and Sonoko Suzuki (attempted murder) Cause of death: Strangulation

Part 2

Conan is unable to figure out how a piece of rope disappeared, but when he figures out who is wearing a wig, he realizes that the person has killed two people on the same night. Using Ran to reveal the secret by using his own voice, Shinchi reveals the information to everyone present, but the revelation will shock everyone involved, especially Ran and Sonoko.

Murder
290px	Victim: Kohei Shimoda Cause of death: Strangulation

People

Akiko Yonehara
	30 years old Haido Elementary school teacher

Kohei Shimoda
	Victim (strangulation) 30 years old Haido Elementary school teacher

Ryuichi Sakai
	29 years old Haido Elementary school P.E. teacher

Minori Nakamura
	27 years old Haido Elementary school nurse

Sugiyama
	Victim (strangulation) Haido Elementary school music teacher

Atsushi Mori
	37 years old Newspaper reporter

Minako Mochizuki
	Deceased Haido Elementary school student

Resolution

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The killer was Akiko Yonehara, inspired by the death of Minako Mochizuki. Minako had found out that Sugiyama and another teacher (Shimoda, but she didn't tell that to Yonehara) were involved in a fraud, and added that she was planning to confront the unnamed teacher; the little girl was found hanged in the school gym few days later, an Yonehara deduced that she had been killed by Sugiyama and his accomplice.

Knowing the identity of only one of Minako's two murderers, Yonehara organized the trip to gather the teachers that she knew Minako was a fan of. She first killed Sugiyama and left his body out there, attacked Sonoko and pretended to be a victim as well to throw off suspicions, and used her lipstick to spell out Minako's name; Shimoda's panicked reaction revealed his involvment, so she tricked him into meeting up with her and killed him as well. The murder weapon was her wig: she had cut her hair too shortt for her liking a while ago, and then decided to use her wig to strange her victims (and Sonoko) without leaving clues.

See also

• Season 4