In the office where he was just killed at the west end of the Far East Company, they had roughly guessed the cause and effect of the incident, but there was still one most important question that needed to be confirmed.
That is - who is the real murderer of Nishio?
Hattori Heiji put his hands behind his head with a nonchalant expression on his face: "No, we are just heading towards that hotel. After all, there is no use staying there."
Conan's expression was a little downcast.
"That's right!" Hattori Heiji seemed to have suddenly thought of something. He put his hands down and sat up straight, looking at Conan and said, "When you were unconscious, Uncle Otaki called me and got a lot of clues.
oh!"
"In other words, there are actually subsequent developments in the Nishio shooting case..." Conan immediately stared at him, trying to get those clues from him.
"On the night when Nishio was shot, a car overturned in a car accident at the container terminal and was smashed to pieces... The driver of the car was Suehiko Ito. It is said that his injuries were so serious that it was a miracle that he survived."
Hattori Heiji continued: "It is said that he stayed in the intensive care unit for more than a month. The police investigated the car that had the accident and found that the oil pressure pipe had been tampered with. The police even found that the oil pressure pipe of the car had been tampered with.
In the trunk, a rifle with a silencer was found."
"Although the fingerprints on the gun had been wiped off, the police quickly determined that the gun was the rifle that killed Nishio."
"Then was Ito arrested?" Conan asked quickly.
"No." Hattori Heiji shook his head slightly, "Two months after the car accident, the doctor finally agreed to meet. But when the police went to Ito's ward, they found that Ito had disappeared without a trace, and the police guarding him
Comatose on the side."
Hattori Heiji relaxed and leaned back in his seat: "Later, because Ito's whereabouts could not be found, the police issued a wanted notice for him."
"Then the man named Ito, could he be the murderer?" Dr. Ali, who was driving, listened to the case and put forward a conjecture.
"It is true that Ito fired at Nishio at that time, because there were a large number of Ito's footprints at the sniper scene, and gunpowder reaction was also detected on his clothes. The number of bullet casings found at the crime scene was also consistent with
The number of magazines in that sniper rifle is the same, and the comparison of ballistic traces is also completely consistent."
Hattori Heiji paused as if to whet his appetite, and then said solemnly: "It's just... that only a little bit of mascara was detected on the scope of that sniper rifle. That kind of mascara.
Rarely, after the police investigated the women around Ito and Nishio, they found a woman using the same mascara as the one on the scope..."
"The woman who committed suicide after the incident was the flower of the Crime Research Club of Yokohama Maritime University. I heard that she had a particularly good relationship with the murdered Nishio and the missing Ito."
Conan also guessed who Hattori Heiji was talking about: "Shimizu Reiko..."
"Yes. After graduation, she and Nishio joined the company run by Ito and served as the secretary general." Hattori Heiji nodded.
"Ito and Nishio robbed the cash transport truck, right?" Conan was lost in thought, "Ito had the motive to kill Nishio and silence her, but what motive would Reiko Shimizu have?"
"According to her colleagues in the company, Nishio seems to have been pursuing her. The police originally wanted to rely on the mascara on the scope to find out something from Reiko Shimizu - besides, she was not involved in the murder of Nishio.
There was no sufficient alibi, but she did not confess in the end."
"Then on May 15, someone witnessed her committing suicide on the beach. It is said that Reiko Shimizu's body was not found later, but due to the strong currents in the local area, the local police finally determined that Reiko Shimizu could not survive.
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"Twenty days later, Ito disappeared into the hospital. As a result, the two suspects who killed Nishio disappeared, and the entire case was almost closed because the whereabouts of the perpetrators were unknown."
"Without President Ito, the company will naturally go bankrupt. The one who bought the company was Miyama Shoji."
Conan was shocked: "Is it related to the Deep Mountain Art Museum? The place where Kidd stole the gem..."
"You guessed it right." Hattori Heiji nodded, "The president of that company, Soichiro Miyama, belongs to the same crime research club as Ito, and is four years older than them. I heard that Ito seems to admire Miyama."
"By the way, speaking of Kidd, Uncle Otaki helped me find out something very interesting! Kidd, who went to Shenshan Art Museum to steal gems on April 4th, happened to run into the bank robbers on their way to escape.
Yes, I heard there was a gun battle!"
"Gunfight?!"
"Because Kidd's custom is not to use a gun, presumably the robbers attacked Kidd unilaterally, right? As for the reason for shooting, it may be..."
Conan followed his words naturally: "The gangster's face was seen by Kidd, right?"
"That's right. I heard that bullet casings from pistols and rifles were also found at the shooting scene! Later, whenever Kidd and his gang stole, someone would show up at the scene and want to take his life. How about that? Isn't it interesting?"
Hattori Heiji said with a smile.
"It's just that we still can't determine who is the real murderer of Nishio..." Conan frowned.
"Yes. This case indeed lacks decisive evidence." Hattori Heiji shrugged.
"By the way, Maori just called and said that he has found an important witness." At this time, Dr. Ali suddenly interrupted.
"ha?!"
"He said that on the day Nishio was killed, there were several clanging sounds of metal hitting from the toilet. When Ito ran out of the toilet with his golf bag in his arms, he seemed to be hit by a cleaning person.
The worker has been witnessed." Dr. Agasa recalled the phone call Mouri Kogoro made to him before.
Conan and Heiji were startled at the same time, then looked at each other, and a smile appeared on their lips again.
"In this case, the case can be solved..."
"Well, yes."
Conan asked again: "What about uncle and others?"
"Mouri said that he has solved the case, so he has to report the whole case to the client first..." Dr. A Li replied.
"Wait, uncle, could he be..." Conan took a breath.
"It would be terrible if we get the wrong person!" Hattori Heiji also instinctively felt something was wrong.
"Ah? Is that so?" Dr. Ali was stunned.
Hattori Heiji leaned his upper body behind the driver's seat and urged anxiously: "Drive faster, Dad! Go at full speed!"
"Okay... no problem..."
Dr. A Li replied nervously, and then stepped on the accelerator.