My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 238 Maori Suicide Theory

Author: Taogua

The follow-up work of the Ichikawa family case was more complicated than Aokimatsu imagined.

Ichikawa Mizuki's financial crimes can be handed over to the Investigation Section 2, but both Ichikawa Kazushige and Okano used certain drugs that can cause death, and the origin of these drugs must be investigated.

At least, if the situation can be investigated, investigate clearly. If it is really impossible to find out, the case can only be sealed.

After working hard for a few days, I have gained something, and I have arrested several middlemen who were selling illegal drugs in violation of regulations. As for the higher-ups of these middlemen, the clues have been cut off and the investigation cannot be continued.

Just when Aoki Song thought he could take a break for two days, something happened again on Conan's side, and the Metropolitan Police Department received a call from Mao Lilan.

well!

This was even under the premise that Aoki Song had not "recognized" Conan, but he often received calls from Mao Lilan to call the police.

If he and Conan "recognize" each other, I'm afraid there will be more things to do to wipe Conan's butt, and I'm afraid he will be too busy every day.

Thinking of this, Aoki Song once again firmly believed that he would never recognize Conan.

He doesn't want to wipe Conan's ass anymore.

Secretly revealing some information to Conan would be considered worthy of him.

After receiving the notice, Aoki Song resignedly led Kazuma Saito and others to the scene in a police car.

The head of the household in this case is not simple either. He is Kikuemon, a Neon national treasure ceramics artist who has great influence in Neon.

Aoki Song asked Kazuma Saito to inquire about the case and the basic information of the deceased, while he inspected the body with the forensics section.

The corpse is the last thing the deceased said to anyone, and many clues to solving the case can be found on the corpse.

Aoki Song first asked the Forensics Division to take photos of the corpse and then inspected it himself.

It is said that the deceased was hanged. A preliminary autopsy by the forensic department also determined that the deceased died of asphyxiation due to hanging. It is not surprising that there were strangulation marks on the neck of the deceased's body.

In addition, the corpses still have elastic residual warmth, and the time of death was no more than half an hour, including the time it took for the police to arrive here.

The deceased almost died within five minutes before Conan and the others called the police. In other words, when Conan and the others found the body, the other party had just hanged himself.

Aoki Song carefully inspected the body and found three very strange places.

First, there was a scratch on the right calf of the corpse, and the wound was not small, so much blood flowed out and was all over the ground. But strangely, there were no traces on other parts of the body, so the wound on the calf

, probably not due to struggle or fighting.

But if there hadn't been a struggle, and there were no sharp objects like knives around, but only some broken ceramic pieces, how could there be such a big wound on the calf.

People's calves are generally not susceptible to knife wounds. After all, if the opponent has a knife, the target will be the abdomen, heart, etc. In self-defense and counterattack, when someone else has a knife, they usually use their hands to grab the knife, so the chance of injury is high.

It's the arm.

Second, some of the pottery fragments next to the body were too broken. If you just dropped the pottery, it would not be so broken.

Third, the deceased was not wearing socks or shoes, but his feet were very clean.

Although tatami is popular here in Neon, you actually need to wear socks.

And it’s not a place where everyone in Neon knows how to slip on their shoes. This is a warehouse, and it’s an outdoor warehouse with a courtyard outside. Who would normally take off their shoes in an outdoor warehouse!

What makes Aoki Song even more strange is that the other party's bare feet are very clean and not stained by any dust.

But the problem is that this is an outdoor warehouse. Even if the floor is covered with wooden boards, there is still some dust on it. If you walk barefoot on the wooden boards, you will get dust.

But existence is reality, and this contradiction is the key to the case.

There is no dust on bare feet, there are only two possibilities.

After the first deceased person fell here, she wiped it off with something like a towel, or she had been wearing shoe covers or something like that on her feet.

But there were no towels or shoe covers around to keep my feet clean.

The second deceased person was carried here by someone or carried on his back. Because his feet never touched the ground, there was no dust on them.

In the second case, there is a high probability that the person who brought the deceased here is the murderer.

With Conan present, Aoki Song basically didn't consider suicide.

After all, there have been so many episodes of Conan, and Aoki Song only remembers one case involving suicide.

The suicide case was the case in which Okino Yoko appeared for the first time. Because of his relationship with Okino Yoko, one of the few major supporting characters in the science world who was not related to the main plot, Aoki Song remembered it very clearly.

Except for this case, all suicide cases are homicides.

After checking the body, Aoki Song stood up, looked at Saito Kazuma and asked: "Have you collected the basic information of the deceased?"

"The deceased's name is Tsuchiya Masuko. She is forty-two years old. She is the daughter-in-law of Mr. Kikuemon, the owner of this house." Saito Kazuma said the basic information of the deceased.

Aoki Song stood next to the body and asked the other people in the room: "Before you found her body, you were all in the room next to the warehouse and heard the sound of something being broken, right?

?”

Yoshihiko Arita, who was standing next to him in green clothes, replied: "Yes, because we drank until very late last night before falling asleep. Mrs. Tsuchiya fell asleep first, so I took her back to the room first.

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Otani Xun, who was wearing yellow clothes, heard this and quickly added: "When I went to call her this morning, I found that her bed was empty."

Another person wearing red clothes, Seto Ryuichi, also said: "Just when we were trying to find her, we heard the sound of something breaking, so we ran to the warehouse to check, and the result..." The other party has already

dead.

"The sound you heard was probably caused by the pottery kettle next to it falling to the ground. But why did the fragments break so much?" Aokisong said.

"Ah, I'm sorry, Mr. Officer." Arita Yoshihiko said apologetically: "The kettle was so broken because the three of us stepped on it. In fact, it was not that broken."

Otani Kaoru also said: "We want to put her down immediately. Maybe she can be saved. By the way, it was the little brother who said so." Otani Kaoru pointed at Conan.

Aoki Song turned around and saw Conan squatting next to the corpse. He twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Conan, don't move." Then he told Mao Lilan to keep an eye on Conan.

After that, Aoki Song looked at Kikuemon and others and said: "Mrs. Tsuchiya was killed. This was a homicide. Please cooperate with our investigation and tell us where you were at the time of the incident. Anyone

There are no witnesses.”

"No way!" Seto Ryuichi said in shock.

Yoshihiko Arita also said with a surprised look: "So, Mrs. Tsuchiya was killed?"

"That's right, so now as the roommates, you are all suspected. We ask you to cooperate with our investigation, especially not to make any misunderstandings, so as not to avoid the suspicion." Aoki Song said coldly.

Face said to several people.

At this time, Mouri Kogoro, who had just woken up from a hangover, was still a little confused after hearing Aoki Song's words, and asked with some confusion: "How could it be a murder?"

Kikuemon and others also looked at Aokimatsu, with some doubts in their eyes.

"Because Mrs. Tsuchiya's feet were very clean, but there was nothing else around to clean her feet, so there is only one situation. Mrs. Tsuchiya was carried into this warehouse." Aoki Song said: "If she wanted to

If you want to commit suicide, don’t bother so much.”

After speaking, he looked at Kikuemon and the others and asked, "Were you really all gathered in the living room when the incident happened?"

"Well, the only person who left here was Otani, because he had to call Mrs. Tsuchiya, right?" Arita Yoshihiko said.

Otani Xun nodded, "Yes, but I only left the living room for a moment, because Mrs. Tsuchiya's room is in the second room next door to the living room. And the teacher told me to find Mrs. Tsuchiya at that time."

"Is that so?" Aokisong asked.

Arita Yoshihiko nodded "Yes."

Seto Ryuichi on the side said: "I don't think he even used it for ten seconds."

After hearing this, Aoki Song thought for a moment and said, "In such a short period of time, Mr. Otani really didn't have time to do anything. Then has anyone left?"

Seto Takashi thought for a while and said: "Ah, by the way, in order to contact Mrs. Tsuchiya, I wanted to call her mobile phone, so I left the living room for a while.

We thought Mrs. Tsuchiya had gone outside early in the morning, but although I left the living room, I used the phone on the corridor in front of the living room to contact Mrs. Tsuchiya’s mobile phone, and Arita was beside me at the time."

"Mrs. Tsuchiya carries a mobile phone with her?" Aoki asked.

This is not an era in a few years when everyone will have a mobile phone in their pocket, especially when there are so many traditionalists here in Neon, and people of a certain age refuse to use mobile phones.

Moreover, Kikuemon is obviously a very traditional family. The 42-year-old Mrs. Tsuchiya actually followed the fashion and carried a mobile phone with her. Why is it not surprising to Aoki Song?

"Yes, I always ask Mashiko to carry a mobile phone with her. The main reason is that I want to concentrate on the creation of the work, so I leave all other matters to Mashiko." Kikuemon said.

"Other things, what do you mean?" Aoki Song asked.

Yoshihiko Arita answered for the teacher: "It's about the collection of works, and the date when the teacher will hold a press conference for new works, etc."

Otani Kaoru on the side also said: "So our teacher almost never goes out."

Aoki Song nodded upon hearing this, then looked at Criminal and asked, "Have you found Mrs. Tsuchiya's mobile phone?"

Saito Kazuma quickly replied: "Mrs. Tsuchiya's mobile phone was not found next to the body, but we found it in the deceased's room, under the folded quilt."

"Under the quilt?" Aoki Song asked curiously.

Would a normal person put a mobile phone like a mobile phone under the quilt?

No way!

After all, if you have a bad sleeping posture, you can kick the mobile phone under the bed with one kick, and then there is a chance that the mobile phone will be scrapped.

Most people put it on the bedside table, or next to the pillow, or at most under the pillow.

When Seto Takashi heard what Aoki Song said, he thought wrongly and quickly said: "Because Mrs. Tsuchiya usually uses her mobile phone as an alarm clock and puts it under the pillow to wake her up."

Kazuma Saito looked at the information sheet in his hand and said: "When we found the mobile phone, there was no power in it."

"I see, so even if you call her from next door, she doesn't know." Aoki Song said, and then looked at a few people and asked: "Other than that, has anyone left the room?"

"There is no one else." Arita Yoshihiko replied.

Otani Xun nodded, "That's right."

Seto Ryuichi also said: "We were all there at the time."

"Mrs. Tsuchiya was discovered by us immediately after hanging herself, so this should be a suicide case." Mouri Kogoro listened for a while and couldn't help but express his opinion.

"Mrs. Tsuchiya's bare feet should be due to her sudden suicidal thoughts. As for the soles of her feet not getting dirty, it's because she had been stepping on the stones in the yard before arriving at the warehouse.

Because it was in this warehouse that she broke the Feng Shui account. She saw the warehouse and walked to it unconsciously when she woke up early in the morning. There is nothing strange about this."

Passionate suicide?

After Aoki Song heard this nonsense from Mouri Kogoro, this idea automatically came to his mind.

Others kill with passion, but when it comes to Mouri Kogoro, he commits suicide with passion?

What a Maori suicide theory!

I believe you as a ghost!

However, some people believed Kogoro Mouri's nonsense.

After listening to what Mouri Kogoro said, Otani Kaoru said in agreement: "That's right, the rope is prepared because there are often things to tie in the warehouse, and when we heard that the kettle was broken, we

Everyone is in this together.”

When Aoki Song heard this, he immediately felt that Otani Kaoru's suspicion had increased. After all, only the murderer would want the police to end such a case by committing suicide.

However, this is the world of science, and stupid people are everywhere. Otherwise, Kogoro Mouri would not have been able to fool so many people, so Kaoru Otani's suspicion only increased a little, and Aoki Song did not recognize him as the murderer.

Although Mouri Kogoro was talking nonsense, his words still revealed a piece of information to Aoki Song.

Aoki Song looked at Kikuemon and others and asked: "What is the 'Feng Shui Number' that Detective Mori just mentioned? Because if it is broken, Mrs. Tsuchiya will commit suicide due to guilt?"

Pass on the imperial seal?

Hearing this, Seto Ryuichi explained: "It was a newly completed kettle that the teacher wanted to show at this press conference, but during the day yesterday, Mrs. Tsuchiya accidentally broke it when she took it out from the warehouse.

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