My neighbor's name is Conan

Chapter 597

Aoki Matsu watched Kogoro Mori and Saburo Nakanishi arguing, while he was thinking about this matter in his heart.

[Although Mr. Nakanishi seems to be a big suspect, what he said is indeed correct. It is a bit far-fetched to say that this is the crime he committed.]

Although what he said was correct, Maori Kogoro still believed that Nakanishi Saburo was a suspect, so he continued: "Then I would like to ask you another question. Mr. Yamamoto is presumed to have died at around 2:45. Where were you at the time? What were you doing?"

Hearing what Maori Kogoro said, Nakanishi Saburo answered without thinking: "Take a taxi coming here."

"Do you remember which car shop it was?" Kogoro Mouri continued to ask.

"How could I remember all this! It seemed to be a blue car, and there seemed to be animal patterns like pigeons or mice on the car." Saburo Nakanishi said somewhat unhappily.

"I'll go check it out now." After hearing this, Maruta Ayumi ran out immediately.

While investigating with Maruta Ayumi, Maori Kogoro also walked outside and chatted with Nitta Hideko and the others. He said with a look of seeing through the truth: "This is just a desperate struggle to delay time."

"That man really chose the wrong partner. Did he think there was a way to escape from Mr. Mori's clutches? Hahaha." Hideko Nitta said flatteringly.

Suzuki Yumi, who was standing by, looked at Maori Kogoro with admiration and said, "Mr. Maori, I was just about to have tea with Ms. Nitta. If it's convenient, we can join."

"Then eat the cake I bought." Kogoro Mouri agreed happily.

Looking at the three smiling faces, Nakanishi Saburo felt very angry and cursed in a low voice: "Really! Not only can I not get my money back, but I am also being treated as a murderer."

"Conan, come with us. There are enough cakes." Maori Kogoro said with a smile, and Conan was pulled by Maori Kogoro to Suzuki Yumi's house next door.

Aoki Matsu glanced at the backs of Mouri Kogoro and Conan, and did not agree with what Mouri Kogoro said.

If Saburo Nakanishi was the murderer, he would never have said that he came by taxi.

How many taxis are there in Tokyo?

There are quite a lot of them, but for the police, as long as they really want to investigate seriously, it is only a matter of time.

Time, place, taxi logo...it won’t take long to find it.

If you can't find it, then it must be that Saburo Nakanishi is lying.

So if Aoki Matsu was the one who killed the victim, Saburo Nakanishi, he would not have said that he came by taxi, but would have said that he came on foot.

With Kogoro Mouri and Conan by the side, suicide can be ruled out in this case.

In addition to science, it is also related to the on-site situation.

There were many butterflies at the scene, and it was obvious that they had been carefully cared for before. If Yamamoto Nobuo really committed suicide, he should have arranged these butterflies first.

Even if one is so frustrated and disheartened as to commit suicide because of something, he will subconsciously avoid the things he likes instead of... The butterfly box was pierced from the front.

If Yamamoto Nobuo was disgusted by butterflies because of raising butterflies or because of the fact that butterflies were a trauma, and he turned his love into hatred and hated butterflies, then he couldn't have just shot through a glass box that raised butterflies, he should have destroyed all the glass boxes.

So, it was murder, definitely murder!

According to science, the murderer is most likely Yumi Suzuki and Hideko Nitta.

Suzuki Yumi and Nitta Hideko both met at 15:, and Yamamoto Nobuo died between : and :, which is a -minute difference, enough time to shoot and kill.

As for the sound of gunfire, electronic equipment such as recording and broadcasting can do that.

Of the two, Suzuki Yumi is obviously more suspicious because she was the one who approached Nitta Hideko, not Nitta Hideko. In addition, today was a workday, but Suzuki Yumi had work but did not go to work, but took a leave of absence.

Of course, Hideko Nitta's suspicion cannot be ruled out. It is possible that her backup plan had not been used yet and Suzuki Yumi appeared, so Hideko Nitta took advantage of the situation and used Suzuki Yumi to prove her alibi.

While Kogoro Mouri and Conan went to eat snacks and Maruta Ayumi led people to find the taxi, Aoki Matsu also led people to search the entire house. In addition, Aoki Matsu asked someone to go to the telecommunications company to get a copy of the call records of Yamamoto Nobuo's mobile phone.

Recording this thing may require the use of mobile phones.

In addition, it is also possible that the murderer had made an appointment with Yamamoto Nobuo before, and the call records may provide some clues.

However, if the murderer is Suzuki Yumi and Nitta Hideko, there is an 80% chance that they will not be found, because they are neighbors and all they need to do is knock on the door.

However, the doubts about the two people are scientific, not evidentiary, so the non-scientific aspects should also be investigated.

The first thing Aoki Matsu checked was the area around the body, and then he found something wrong.

He wanted to test Yoji Aihara, who was arranged by Inspector Megure.

So he called him over, pointed to the area near the body and asked, "Look carefully, is there anything wrong?"

"Yes!" Aihara Yoji responded, his eyes widened a little, scanning the area around the corpse inch by inch.

Aoki Matsu is quite famous in the Criminal Department, and there are people who have sought advice from him.

Of course, Aoki Matsu could not accuse him of being a scientist. He could only say that he was careful and meticulous, and gave examples of several cases.

For some cases, you really don't need to be particularly smart or knowledgeable about science. You just need to search the scene carefully.

When Aihara Yoji learned that he had the opportunity to follow Aoki Matsu, he was happy, but he naturally got to know Aoki Matsu a little bit and knew that what Aoki Matsu valued most in his colleagues was not how capable they were, but that they could not miss the clues in front of them.

After carefully scanning the area around the body, Aihara Yoji said uncertainly: "Inspector, I found two things that are wrong."

"Oh, tell me about it." Aoki Matsu looked at Aihara Yoji and said.

Aihara Yoji was not afraid of the stage, and said: "The first place is the open mouth of the deceased. The forensic doctor said there was no sign of resistance, which is very strange. Generally, when a murderer kills someone with a gun, the standard place is the heart, the center of the eyebrows, the temple, etc., not the mouth.

The second place is here. There is only a suicide note on the coffee table in front of the body, but the problem is that on the ground next to the coffee table, there is a coffee cup full of coffee. Logically, the coffee cup should be placed on the coffee table.

Unless there were a lot of things on the coffee table at the time and the deceased couldn't put the coffee cup down, or was worried that the coffee cup would fall over, so he put the coffee cup on the ground. "

Qing Musong nodded, "Not bad, you have good insight."

He also discovered these two things were wrong.

It’s just that the criminal from the forensic department has just checked the coffee table and did not extract any fingerprints.

Yoji Aihara was very happy to receive the praise from Aoki Matsu, but the case had not been solved yet, so he did not laugh.

Aoki Matsu then called the detective from the forensic department to come and take fingerprint samples from the coffee cup, but unexpectedly he got an unexpected result.

There was a stainless steel stick in the coffee cup. Everyone thought it was a spoon for stirring the coffee, but when it was taken out, it turned out to be a dental mirror for checking teeth.

Aoki Matsu instantly thought of what Nitta Hideko had said before, that Suzuki Yumi was a doctor, but Suzuki Yumi said that she was not a doctor, she just worked in a dental clinic.

There was no sign of resistance on the deceased's body; he opened his mouth on his own initiative.

Qing Musong has always found this strange, but if the person is a dentist, then there is nothing strange about it. To check teeth, there is naturally more than just a dental mirror, and it is possible to fill the entire table.

Thinking of this, Aoki Matsu immediately asked someone to check Suzuki Yumi's background, which dental clinic in Tokyo she worked in, compare the dental mirror in the coffee cup, and whether there was any grudge between her and the deceased.

There aren't that many twists and turns in this kind of everyday case.

The murderer is most likely Suzuki Yumi!

What about the evidence?

The dental mirror is indeed one of the evidences, but this evidence is not very solid and there is a chance that it can be arguably explained away.

Suzuki Yumi must have cleaned up the scene before leaving, and it was not inappropriate for her to wear gloves while examining teeth. It is impossible to find the other person's fingerprints now.

Today, Yumi Suzuki's hair is tied up neatly and there is no hair loss.

Only if something like the dental mirror was not noticed by her would it be possible for it to remain.

What could be something that she could ignore and yet be irrefutable evidence?

Aoki Matsu looked around the scene and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind and he had the answer.

Not long after, Maruta Ayumi and others came back with their investigation and confirmed Aoki Matsu's idea.

So Qing Musong asked someone to invite several people over.

Unexpectedly, Kogoro Mori was already drunk in just this short while.

"Oh! I don't know whether to say that Inspector Aoki, you are pitiful or unfortunate." Kogoro Mouri, who was being supported by someone, was talking nonsense at this time.

"What?" After seeing his expression, Aoki Matsu was speechless. "Detective Maori, what are you talking about? Move him aside."

Then Aoki Matsu looked at Suzuki Yumi, Nitta Hideko, and Nakanishi Saburo and said, "According to the evidence obtained by our police investigation, Mr. Yamamoto was murdered and then disguised as suicide. But the murderer is indeed not Mr. Nakanishi, but someone else."

"Disguise?" When Saburo Nakanishi heard Aoki Matsu say that he was not the murderer, he instantly felt that he had succeeded.

Aoki Matsu nodded. "Yes, we have already learned that Mr. Yamamoto is a person who loves butterflies very much. So he must have thought about what to do with these butterflies if he died. He should have let them all go before committing suicide.

Another point is the position where Mr. Yamamoto is sitting now. If he shoots there, the bullet that penetrates his body will definitely hit the glass breeding box behind him. If there is a mistake, it may really hurt the butterflies. So he will definitely not choose that position to commit suicide. "

"That's right." Nakanishi Saburo nodded in agreement.

Aoki Matsu continued, "According to our investigation of Mr. Yamamoto's phone records, he called the dentist at around 2:30 to cancel his appointment. That means he was murdered between 2:30 and 3:00 when Mr. Nakanishi found him."

"That's 2:45. We all heard gunshots. It can't be wrong," said Hideko Nitta.

"No, you're wrong!" Aoki Matsu directly denied what Nitta Hideko said.

"Ah!" Hideko Nitta was shocked.

Aoki Matsu continued, "The key to this case is the method of murder! How did the murderer put the gun into Mr. Yamamoto's mouth?"

Without waiting for others to guess, Aoki Matsu directly announced the answer, "I think Mr. Yamamoto opened his mouth wide as requested by the murderer."

"Open your mouth wide as requested? How is that possible? If it were a child, it might be possible, but Mr. Yamamoto is an adult!" Hideko Nitta felt that what Aoki Matsu said was like a fairy tale.

"But there is someone who can control Mr. Yamamoto's actions in this way." Aoki Matsu said with a smile.

"Who is that person?" asked Nakanishi Saburo anxiously, who had a bad temper.

Aoki Matsu smiled and said, "Mr. Nakanishi, please open your mouth wider. Who should say this so that you will obey me?"

"Who is it?" Nakanishi Saburo didn't want to guess.

Aoki Matsu directly announced the answer: "Doctors, especially almost all dentists, will say so."

"Officer, you mean a dentist. A dentist has been here, right?" Saburo Nakanishi followed up on what Aoki Matsu said.

He still cares about the murderer very much. After all, the other party wants him to take the blame.

"No! The person who came is someone who works in the dental clinic." Aoki Matsu shook his head. "This person is someone who knows Mr. Yamamoto and knows that Mr. Yamamoto owes someone money."

Aoki Matsu directly focused his eyes on Suzuki Yumi and said, "Ms. Suzuki, you work as an assistant in the dental clinic that Mr. Yamamoto goes to, that is, the Beika Dental Clinic, right?

You told the clinic today that you had something urgent to do and couldn't go to work, right? It was because you overheard that Mr. Nakanishi would come here at 3 o'clock today to collect the debt. So you decided to implement the plan you had been planning for a long time, right? "

"A plan that has been in the works for a long time?" The second half of Qing Musong's sentence immediately attracted everyone's attention.

Especially Saburo Nakanishi and Hideko Nitta.

"You moved to this apartment more than two months ago, shortly after Mr. Yamamoto started visiting the dental clinic where you work. You moved here deliberately in order to pretend to be close to Mr. Yamamoto.

As you planned, you started to communicate with Mr. Yamamoto. Then you learned that Mr. Yamamoto had debt problems, so you used it to write a script about a man committing suicide because of debt. "

When Aoki Matsu said this, Suzuki Yumi's brows began to frown slightly.

But Aoki Matsu was not affected at all and continued, "Today is a workday, and there won't be many people in the apartment around 2:30. And Ms. Nitta will take off her hearing aids and take a nap at this time every day."