Chapter 1297: Prisoners Who Collude with Each Other (Please Vote and Subscribe!!!)

"Brother Maori, you said that Akutagawa died suddenly because he took quinidine, but how did the prisoner change the medicine bottle?"

On the third floor of the Akutagawa family villa, after listening to Mouri Kogoro's reasoning, Megure Thirteen questioned:

"Unless the prisoner is the person closest to Akutagawa, it is impossible to change the medicine bottle quietly!"

Suddenly, everyone's attention focused on the butler.

From beginning to end, the person who has been by Akutagawa's side has been this elderly housekeeper. He is responsible for Akutagawa's food and daily life and is the most suspicious.

"I have served the Akutagawa family for decades. I have watched the young master grow up. Why would I do such an unjust thing?"

Seeing that everyone doubted him, the housekeeper immediately said:

"Not to mention that I have no motive to kill the young master at all. I just want to say that I live with the young master day and night and have countless opportunities to do something. I can definitely cause an accident while the young master is traveling. Why bother to plan a sudden death? "

"To put it bluntly, I know that the famous detective Mouri Kogoro is coming to visit the young master today, and I specifically chose today to do it. This seems a bit unreasonable!"

Reasonable and well-founded.

The detectives in the first search section looked at each other in confusion, unable to find anything to refute.

These days, not only are criminals getting smarter, but suspects have also learned to find reasons to clear themselves of suspicion.

"That's right! Butler Takeda can't possibly harm my husband!"

Ogawa Reiko said with determination:

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!"

"Miss Reiko, don't worry. No one said that Butler Takeda is the murderer."

Megure Thirteen quickly jumped in to be the peacemaker, downplaying the inevitable conflict between the detective and the suspect.

Without the police as a buffer zone, the detective profession would be hated by many people.

After all, not every detective is as powerful as Sakaki Makoto, Conan, Kudo Yusaku and others.

There will always be errors in judgment.

"Mr. Maori, how can you be sure that the prisoner changed the medicine bottle?"

Takagi Wataru, who was standing behind, saw the opportunity and interjected:

"Your previous reasoning was based on someone changing the medicine bottle. But if no one changes the medicine bottle, the reasoning will naturally not be valid!"

Sudden death is not something that an individual can decide. It often happens very suddenly and is difficult to prevent.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be called sudden death (sudden death).

"I've thought about this a long time ago."

Mouri Kogoro said expressionlessly:

"The forensics class just checked the medicine bottle. There should be fingerprint residue on it."

"Well"

Detective Demi looked through the records:

"Only the bottles of antihypertensive medicine and penicillin V potassium tablets had the fingerprints of Ichibo Akutagawa, Reiko Ogawa and Butler Takeda on them. The bottles of painkillers that appeared later did not have any fingerprints."

Mouri Kogoro grinned:

"As expected, Mumu Police Department, now you should understand why I am sure the prisoner changed the medicine bottle."

"not understand."

Mumu Shisan shook his head blankly.

"It was the prisoner who wiped the fingerprints off the bottle!"

Conan shouted:

"Today at noon, Akutagawa took painkillers and penicillin V potassium tablets, which means he must have touched the medicine bottles. Since there are fingerprint residues on the bottles of antihypertensive drugs and penicillin V potassium tablets, it proves that Akutagawa is not mysophobic yet. The point where you have to wipe the bottle after taking the medicine!”

"In that case, why are there no Akutagawa's fingerprints on the bottle of painkillers? Someone must have wiped off the fingerprints during the replacement of the bottle!"

"Ah! That's right!"

His eyes suddenly brightened, and he suddenly realized:

"During the process of changing the bottle, the prisoner will inevitably leave fingerprints. In order to prevent the identity from being exposed, the traces must be cleaned up! That's why Brother Maori concluded that the medicine bottle has been changed!"

"Yes."

Mouri Kogoro nodded, looking confident:

"And the person who can take advantage of Akutagawa's unpreparedness and change the medicine bottle must be the person closest to him! I'm right, Miss Reiko."

Uh-huh!

Under the gaze of everyone, Ogawa Reiko's expression changed slightly:

"Detective Maori, how could I be a prisoner? When my husband died, didn't I stay in the office with you?"

"Even if you say that my husband died suddenly because of taking medicine, and the murderer is not required to be present, the time for my husband to take medicine is fixed. I was not at home at noon and never left the office. How could I change the medicine bottle? "

"Yes, Brother Maori, all the staff at the office can prove that Ogawa Reiko arrived at the office at 10 a.m. and never left, and Akutagawa Ippon took the medicine around 12 noon. How could she commit the crime? "

Mu Mu Shisan looked puzzled and thought this was impossible.

Ogawa Reiko absolutely owns the alibi, and it cannot be faked.

When he woke up in the morning, Akutagawa took antihypertensive medicine, but the bottle of antihypertensive medicine had not been replaced. It still contained those pills, which showed that there was no problem with the antihypertensive medicine.

The real problem was the painkiller Akutagawa took at 12 noon.

But when Akutagawa took medicine at noon, Ogawa Reiko was no longer at home. Even if she replaced the painkillers when taking medicine in the morning, it was impossible to replace the medicine bottle.

There must be something wrong somewhere.

"What if it wasn't Miss Reiko herself who replaced the medicine bottle?"

Mouri Kogoro said:

"In this way, the criminals can form a perfect cooperation."

"Are you saying that someone colluded with Reiko Ogawa privately?"

Megure Jusan was shocked, and then he remembered that Akutagawa Ichimoto had commissioned Maori Kogoro to investigate Reiko Ogawa's cheating, and he immediately connected the two things.

If Reiko Ogawa colluded with her lover, the two of them cooperated with each other, one replaced the painkillers with quinidine, and the other replaced quinidine with painkillers

It is indeed possible to commit a crime.

But.

"Butler Takeda, besides Brother Mori and his friends, are there any other people visiting the villa today?"

"No."

"That means the criminal may have sneaked in?"

While pondering, Megure Jusan remembered that he had seen a surveillance camera in the yard of the villa:

"The police want to retrieve the villa's video footage today. Please take us there."

"The surveillance camera is broken."

Butler Takeda suddenly said:

"It is currently under repair."

"What a coincidence?"

Megure Jusan frowned and had to change a plan:

"Takagi, go retrieve the street video footage from the Ministry of Transportation. Sato, you take the forensic department to conduct fingerprint and footprint inspections in the villa. If you find different fingerprints, report immediately!"

"Yes!"

"Wait a minute!"

Seeing this scene, Butler Takeda couldn't sit still and immediately stopped him:

"You can't do this!"