Chapter 3556-3568 [Murderer, are you alright?] Requesting monthly votes ()
"The deceased should be wearing platform shoes?" Inspector Megure, who knew nothing about fashion, scratched his head in confusion as he watched the high school girl rushing to provide the clue. "What does that mean?"
"It's like..." Ran Mouri explained with gestures, "It's those shoes with soles that are more than ten centimeters thick and look very unique—the exaggerated makeup of the 'sexy girl' look would look out of place with ordinary shoes. So nowadays, girls who wear 'sexy girl' makeup will basically wear a pair of platform shoes."
Officer Sato took the photos of the scene he had just taken and looked at them: "When the body was found, she was wearing a pair of very ordinary red leather shoes. And according to the forensic officers, the shoes didn't fit quite right... In other words, the murderer changed the shoes she was wearing after killing her? Why would this person do that?"
Ran Mouri was stunned: "Yeah, why?"
"..." Conan was silent for a moment, then had to remind him, "It's probably because the murderer wanted to hide something—that his targets were all people who wore platform shoes and drove to this department store to shop."
Three policemen: "?!"
Inspector Megure suddenly looked at his two subordinates: "What shoes were the other three victims wearing when they were attacked?"
Officer Sato flipped through the photos in his hand: "Only the second victim was photographed in full-body mode, and she was indeed wearing these kinds of platform shoes."
"However, judging from their makeup, the other two victims also wore sexy makeup, so it seems that they were probably wearing the same shoes when they were attacked."
Inspector Megure nodded and said to Officer Takagi, "Go and confirm this with the three surviving victims right away."
"..." Officer Takagi, who had just run back to report, had no choice but to turn around and rush out again.
Sato Miwako then recalled something: "I heard Yumi say that one of the reasons the deceased was in a car accident in this parking lot a year ago was because of the platform shoes she was wearing."
"Shoes with such thick soles are slow to brake, which meant that when she saw the little boy playing ball rushing out, she couldn't stop the car in time, leading to this tragedy."
Inspector Megure felt his long-dormant brain begin to function again, and a line slowly connected in his mind: "A year ago, the deceased hit and killed a child because his shoes had thick soles. A year later, people driving with thick-soled shoes are being attacked in large numbers... Could today's murderer be seeking revenge for the child who died back then?"
Officer Sato recalled, "I heard that when the child died, his parents were already divorced, but they ended up in court together again because of this incident, insisting that the main cause of the accident was that the driver was wearing thick-soled shoes."
"But in the end, the judge did not take this opinion into consideration, and Ms. Tae was released soon afterward."
Inspector Megure suddenly remembered something: "You just said that the dead child was named Sakurai Akira? Since his parents are divorced, whose surname did he have?"
Officer Sato: "The reason for their divorce was that the child's father was an alcoholic. So he was awarded to his mother and has lived with her ever since, taking her surname."
Inspector Megure: "And what is his father's surname?"
Officer Sato's phone vibrated, and she exclaimed with delight, "Yumi sent an email—I just heard that the deceased was in a car accident, so I asked her to find the relevant information about that accident and send it over. Let me take a look..."
Officer Sato flipped through the pages quickly, stopping at one: "His father's name is... Yoshio Sadakin! Strange, why does that name sound so familiar?"
Ran Mouri paused, stunned: "Isn't that the name of the security guard I saw when I was looking for directions in the underground parking lot!"
"It seems he's the culprit!" Inspector Megure looked around, wanting to rush up and tackle the suspect, but he couldn't see the figure when he scanned the area.
Two seconds later, he remembered something and slapped his thigh in frustration: "Why did I let him go! I should have detained all four suspects and let them go after the case was closed."
Officer Takagi sighed: "Just now, this case still looked like a random series of attacks... Inspector, the suspect may not know that we have discovered the connection between him and the victim. I'll take some men to the security room to check."
Inspector Megure nodded.
Sato Miwako was a little puzzled: "But wasn't that security guard 167 centimeters tall? That's why we let him go so easily—I remember that according to the victim's description, the attacker was a little over 1.5 meters tall."
"..." Conan held back for a long time, but finally couldn't help but whisper:
"The victim's description should not be 'the attacker is 1.5 meters tall,' but rather 'about the same height as me,' right?"
"I see!" Inspector Megure exclaimed in realization.
"When they were attacked, they were wearing platform shoes with a heel height of more than 10 centimeters. But when they came to the Metropolitan Police Department to have their height measured, they weren't dressed up at all and were wearing ordinary flat shoes."
"So the murderer's actual height should be 1.5 meters plus a bit more... which is exactly the height of that security guard!"
Conan glanced at Inspector Megure, noticing he seemed a bit smarter than usual today, and continued with a slightly pleased expression:
"Furthermore, the victims were all young women who had shopped at this department store and were driving while wearing platform shoes—making the security guard who works in the underground parking lot and watches customers get in and out of their cars a prime suspect."
Kogoro Mouri was a little confused: "If you want revenge, why don't you just go to the deceased's house and find her?"
"Have you forgotten, Mori?" A deep voice drifted from the side. Inspector Matsumoto, who had wandered over to the reporters, had somehow returned. He pointed to the corner where the body had just been lying:
"The deceased was only 20 years old this year. When the car accident happened a year ago, she was only 19 years old and not yet an adult—the information of perpetrators of this age is protected. The murderer had no idea where she lived."
"That's why that security guard switched jobs to this shopping mall and lingered in the underground parking lot where his son died, patiently waiting for the murderer, hoping to one day meet her again when she came to this shopping mall to shop."
"But as he waited day after day without ever getting his target, the killer began to take his anger out on other women who were wearing platform shoes."
"Sato." As he spoke, Inspector Matsumoto suddenly looked at Sato Miwako beside him, his gaze sharp. "What's with that expression? -- What are you thinking about?"
"No, it's nothing." Sato Miwako guiltily looked away: if she remembered correctly, several minutes ago, Jiang Xia seemed to have mentioned the murderer's height, and then...
Then he disappeared without a trace.
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