Place Exposed to the Sun

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Episode 315 (Int. Episode {{{int-episode}}})
Information
Title:	Place Exposed to the Sun
Original airdate:	April 14, 2003
Season:	11
Case
Cast:	Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri
Case solved by:	Kogoro Mouri (via Conan)

Cast

Characters
Conan Edogawa Kogoro Mouri Ran Mouri

Case

Situation

Jiroo Kuroki calls Kogoro to help his artist sensei, Shizusan Hayakawa's, depression due to the fact he is unable to draw anymore due to his age. During a fishing trip, Hayakawa's maid finds that he had hanged himself on bamboo.

Murder
	Victim: Seizan Hayakawa Cause of death: Hanged

People

Jiro Kuroki
	28 years old Seizan's apprentice

Seizan Hayakawa
	Victim (hanged) 70 years old Japanese artist

Noriko Yamamoto
	35 years old Hayakawa family maid

Keiichi Yamamoto
	Noriko Yamamoto's son

Daimatsu
	Policeman from the precinct

Resolution

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After at through investigation, Conan tranquilizes Kogoro to reveal that Kuroki murdered Haykawa. Conan reveals that he drugged Hayakawa with sleeping pills and bought him to the bamboo forest where he tied a noose around his sensei's neck. Kuroki then cut down the bamboo around the vicinity to allow the bamboo with the noose to gain more sunlight and grow exponentially allowing it to hang his master. Kuroki confesses and reveals he wanted to sell the paintings he painted under his own name but his sensei refused it.

See also

• Season 11