Tatsuo Kinoshita

Tatsuo Kinoshita (木下立男, Kinoshita Tatsuo) is a college student and the victim in the Sandbox Murder at Dawn Case.
==Physical description==
==History==
Kinoshita was at Tetsu Yamada's house to watch a movie with him and Hajime Satou. Before the movie started at 12 a.m., Yamada drugged Kinoshita to make him fall asleep before he dragged him to the nearby park. There, he dug a hole in the sandbox and buried Kinoshita in it, but left the space around his head free of sand. Yamada ran a hose through the sand to provide him with air and covered Kinoshita's head with a blue sheet and weighted the sheet down with four stones. In the middle of the sheet was a hole, and when Yamada placed sand on top of the sheet, it was turned into an antlion trap: The sand slowly fell through the hole and onto Kinoshita's head. The sand gradually covered his head, and Kinoshita died of asphyxiation at around 3 a.m.
Yamada had also tied a string to the sheet so that he could pull it away and to his house after Kinoshita was dead. Because of the time shift caused by the suffocation device and the fact that he could easily remove the sheet from his home, Yamada dared to write "I was killed by Tetsu Yamada" into the sand. If he did that, he would also get questioned early enough to ensure that his testimony would not fall apart. Yamada killed Kinoshita because he flirted with his girlfriend.
==Etymology==
* The name "Tatsuo" means "standing" (立, tatsu) and "male, man" (男, o).
* His surname "Kinoshita" means "tree, wood" (木, ki) and "under, below" (下, shita).
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Male characters
Category:Sandbox Murder at Dawn Case characters
Category:Civilians
Category:Tokyo residents
Category:Deceased characters