Again, writing this weeks after the case but figured I might as well since I wrote up the last one.
So there we were, enjoying the sights of Osaka in the summer - eating the food and getting to know Conan's friends. Brilliant first day there, nothing but clear skies and okay, Sherlock was not entirely happy spending the day with a bunch of teenagers but he got over it the next day. Maybe not completely but he was at least distracted when a body fell out of the sky. Literally.
Once again we'd been minding our own business (Sherlock was extremely involved with his phone) when we witnessed someone hit the pavement. I actually got to the individual first, checking to see if they were still alive only to discover that he wasn't. So we had a body then and now there were three detectives there to spring into action. They were all looking up in an attempt to figure out where the victim had fallen from, trying to determine whether or not he'd come from the nearby building. They left the girls and me to deal with the victim, the police and the bystanders while they raced up to get to the roof only to determine that the man had not come from there.
So obviously it meant he'd been pushed out of a blimp that had been passing by at the time, one which was advertising the football game we were meant to be going to the next day. When they'd gleaned all the information they could from the victim himself, killed upon impact on the ground and not before, they had the police take us to where the blimp was kept so we could get on board so they could inspect it. It didn't take long for them to figure out where the victim had fallen from and pointed out the shoe scuff marks showing that he'd been pushed out. A murder, then.
With that in mind they got a list of crew who had been on blimp at the time of the murder. A small list consisting of five people, including the victim. All of them working in relatively different areas and the victim was there in case emergency repairs were needed. It became clear that the victim had not been a nice individual when alive, belittling his coworkers and even guests. They all had good motive to get rid of the victim. The pilot constantly argued with the victim about being lazy and not working. His partner hated that the victim was always hitting on her and she even claimed that he went through her locker once. An announcer who frequently worked with the victim owed him money from being cheated at a game, the announcer refusing to pay because of it. Then there was the woman who handled the board, making sure all the adverts were playing the proper ones. She said she'd dated the victim once but found out he had cheated on her.
All of them had motive but only three had opportunity. The pilot had been at the helm at the exact time of the murder, his partner having stepped away to use the loo some time before. With three detectives nosing about and asking questions, it didn't take much time at all for them to figure out who had killed the victim. They all agreed that it was the co-pilot, that she hadn't gone to the loo at all but instead had called the victim out. As it turned out, the victim had found a picture in her locker and was blackmailing her with it. To get it back she had been paying him off for the last month and yet he still refused to return it. So she'd called him out by telling him that she had another "payment" and then proceeded to wrestle with him for the picture only to have him fall from the blimp.
The evidence was there on her arms, scratches hidden beneath her uniform that she had gotten from the victim during the struggle. The police would find her DNA under the victim's fingernails during the autopsy. She admitted to the crime, that she attacked him when he told her that he was never going to give back the photograph and that she'd be paying him for the rest of her life. She hadn't meant to kill him but he had slipped during the fight and fell from the blimp.
Not a terribly difficult case but it put Sherlock in the mood to attend the football game with us the next day. Wish he hadn't because he was sulky afterwards. I think he might not have been aware that we'd be there so long. Deleting the usual length of a sports game seems like the kind of thing he'd do - if he ever bothered to learn it in the first place. Didn't help much that Conan was sulky too considering his favorite team hadn't won.
Week 2, Day 4
So there we were, enjoying the sights of Osaka in the summer - eating the food and getting to know Conan's friends. Brilliant first day there, nothing but clear skies and okay, Sherlock was not entirely happy spending the day with a bunch of teenagers but he got over it the next day. Maybe not completely but he was at least distracted when a body fell out of the sky. Literally.
Once again we'd been minding our own business (Sherlock was extremely involved with his phone) when we witnessed someone hit the pavement. I actually got to the individual first, checking to see if they were still alive only to discover that he wasn't. So we had a body then and now there were three detectives there to spring into action. They were all looking up in an attempt to figure out where the victim had fallen from, trying to determine whether or not he'd come from the nearby building. They left the girls and me to deal with the victim, the police and the bystanders while they raced up to get to the roof only to determine that the man had not come from there.
So obviously it meant he'd been pushed out of a blimp that had been passing by at the time, one which was advertising the football game we were meant to be going to the next day. When they'd gleaned all the information they could from the victim himself, killed upon impact on the ground and not before, they had the police take us to where the blimp was kept so we could get on board so they could inspect it. It didn't take long for them to figure out where the victim had fallen from and pointed out the shoe scuff marks showing that he'd been pushed out. A murder, then.
With that in mind they got a list of crew who had been on blimp at the time of the murder. A small list consisting of five people, including the victim. All of them working in relatively different areas and the victim was there in case emergency repairs were needed. It became clear that the victim had not been a nice individual when alive, belittling his coworkers and even guests. They all had good motive to get rid of the victim. The pilot constantly argued with the victim about being lazy and not working. His partner hated that the victim was always hitting on her and she even claimed that he went through her locker once. An announcer who frequently worked with the victim owed him money from being cheated at a game, the announcer refusing to pay because of it. Then there was the woman who handled the board, making sure all the adverts were playing the proper ones. She said she'd dated the victim once but found out he had cheated on her.
All of them had motive but only three had opportunity. The pilot had been at the helm at the exact time of the murder, his partner having stepped away to use the loo some time before. With three detectives nosing about and asking questions, it didn't take much time at all for them to figure out who had killed the victim. They all agreed that it was the co-pilot, that she hadn't gone to the loo at all but instead had called the victim out. As it turned out, the victim had found a picture in her locker and was blackmailing her with it. To get it back she had been paying him off for the last month and yet he still refused to return it. So she'd called him out by telling him that she had another "payment" and then proceeded to wrestle with him for the picture only to have him fall from the blimp.
The evidence was there on her arms, scratches hidden beneath her uniform that she had gotten from the victim during the struggle. The police would find her DNA under the victim's fingernails during the autopsy. She admitted to the crime, that she attacked him when he told her that he was never going to give back the photograph and that she'd be paying him for the rest of her life. She hadn't meant to kill him but he had slipped during the fight and fell from the blimp.
Not a terribly difficult case but it put Sherlock in the mood to attend the football game with us the next day. Wish he hadn't because he was sulky afterwards. I think he might not have been aware that we'd be there so long. Deleting the usual length of a sports game seems like the kind of thing he'd do - if he ever bothered to learn it in the first place. Didn't help much that Conan was sulky too considering his favorite team hadn't won.