Conan's Almighty Extraction

The next day, at dawn, after a night of hard work, the police found the missing boat and a red baseball cap inside.

The policeman in charge of the search immediately notified Criminal Inoki of the news, and then Criminal Inoki came to the villa wearing a baseball cap and shouted at everyone who hadn't woken up.

"I'm sorry to disturb everyone early in the morning. The main reason is that we found something that seems to be evidence."

Criminal Inoki took out the red baseball cap in the evidence bag, showed it to everyone, and asked, "Do you have any impression of this red baseball cap?"

After a few careful glances, Baiyan Maha replied: "The color of the hat is exactly the same as what we saw, but we were too far away at that time, and we couldn't see the details clearly, so we can't be sure if it is this hat."

"That's right." Criminal Inoki nodded in understanding, and then asked the housekeeper Kamei who had seen the suspect up close two months ago, "Mrs. Kamei, have you seen it?"

Butler Kamei nodded and confirmed: "I have seen it, I remember that he was wearing such a hat at the time."

Criminal Inoki turned the hat in the other direction, revealing the rusty katakana letters on it, and asked the butler Kamei, "Actually, this hat also has the owner's name embroidered on it, [KUMADA], I wonder if you understand these people?" Do you have any impression of the words?"

"No, I have no impression at all."

"I do not have either."

Butler Kamei and Secretary Sakurani shook their heads slightly, expressing that they had no impression of this, but lawyer Fujisawa did not express his opinion immediately, but frowned and thought.

"Speaking of the name [KUMADA], I think of someone."

After a while, lawyer Fujisawa's brows widened, and he recalled: "Five years ago, when Brother Sakuraba first joined the law firm, the lawyer happened to be defending a man named Xiong Tian, ​​and the case was over soon. .”

After being reminded by lawyer Fujisawa, Secretary Sakuraba also recalled the case and confirmed: "Yes, it is him."

Mori Kogoro remembered the contents of Lawyer Tachibana's diary, and hurriedly asked: "Then the person you mentioned at the time was found not guilty in the end?"

"Yes, the situation was very unfavorable to Kumata at the time, but Lawyer Tachibana finally succeeded in getting him acquitted. I remember that his name seems to be Kuma. By the way, his name is Tatsuya Kumata." Lawyer Fujisawa nodded, After thinking hard for a long time, I finally remembered the name of that person.

After hearing the name Kumada Tatsuya, Shiraiwa Maha analyzed: "Kumada Tatsuya, the letter of the katakana is [KUMADA TATUYA], and the abbreviation is [TK] in reverse. It seems that the murderer should have a lot to do with this person. .”

"So, he is [TK] who sent the threatening letter."

Kogoro Mori showed joy, and reasoned vigorously: "This guy surnamed Xiong Tian threatened Lawyer Tachibana with a threatening letter, but Lawyer Tachibana ignored his threat, or the other way around, threatened him with the crime of intimidation. It is also possible that Kumada will be charged with the same crime."

The criminal at the racecourse raised his eyebrows, and with a look of enlightenment, he said in the words of Kogoro Mori: "When Kumada was forced to jump over the wall, he asked Lawyer Tachibana to drink sleeping pills, took off his life jacket, and let him drown. Death."

"Very likely, then we will arrest Kumada Tatsuya as the main suspect."

After Inoki made the decision, he immediately arranged for personnel to investigate the situation of Kumada Tatsuya, and found that the apartment where he lived was less than 25 minutes' drive from the crime scene, which undoubtedly further deepened his suspicion of committing the crime.

After having Kumada Tatsuya's address, Inoki Detective immediately drove Mouri Kogoro and Shiraiwa Maha to arrest Kumada Tatsuya. Conan, whose detective soul was burning, naturally would not stay in the villa, and followed secretly into the police car .

More than 20 minutes later, everyone came to the apartment. Outside Tatsuya Kumada's room on the second floor, Criminal Inoki rang the doorbell, but no one responded.

Criminal Inoki continued to ring the doorbell, and at the same time muttered with some doubts: "It's really strange. The tip we received indicated that Kumata usually stays in the apartment to sleep in the morning."

Bai Yanzhenyu tried to twist the doorknob, but found that the door was opened directly, and could not help but whisper: "Hey, this door is not locked at all!"

"what?"

Criminal Inoki and the others were also surprised, but they didn't take it too seriously. After a polite shout, they opened the door and walked in.

When the door was fully opened, it was Kumada Tatsuya who had hanged himself in the living room.

"This is…"

"how so?!"

Everyone was shocked and rushed over to rescue Xiong Tianda, but it was too late, he had died for a long time.

Criminal Inoki immediately arranged police forces to seal off the entire apartment, and then took Shiraiwa Maha and others to investigate the scene together.

……

After the preliminary investigation, Mori Kogoro pointed to the chair lying on the ground, and deduced: "It seems that he used this chair to hang himself."

Inspector Inoki looked at the rope used for hanging, and said with some doubts: "But the hanging method of this rope is too strange, why didn't he tie the rope directly to the beam, but fixed it to the railing of the balcony? "

Mori Kogoro stretched out his hand to show the distance between the beam and the ground, and explained: "The structure of the room is relatively low. If the rope hangs down from the beam, Tatsuya Kumada's feet will touch the floor, so he will pass through such a bridge." way to increase height."

"That's true."

Criminal Inoki nodded, agreeing with Mori Kogoro's statement, and then summoned the apartment users to ask if anyone had noticed anything unusual about Kumada Tatsuya's house.

"Speaking of which, yesterday I heard a loud noise from upstairs, as if something fell, with a bang, but it only rang once and then it disappeared. The time should be after seven o'clock in the evening." Lives in the building of his house The female resident below provided a clue.

"This is basically consistent with the estimated time of death between six and seven last night."

After Criminal Inoki recorded this clue, a male resident living next door said, "It was already [-]:[-] when I came home last night, but it's strange to say that, because at that time I I also heard the sound of a washing machine running in Mr. Kumata's room."

How could a person who chose to commit suicide still have the intention to wash clothes? Such an unreasonable situation immediately aroused everyone's suspicion.