Hammer Man (Case Closed)

Hammer Man is a nickname given to an unnamed bike delivery woman, who targeted long-haired women and struck them in the head with a hammer. She's the main antagonist of "The Truth Behind the Urban Legend" (airdate April 18-25, 2009, manga volume 60: Files 6-8). Before her criminal career started, she had a boyfriend. When the boyfriend got to borrow an apartment from a friend, who was going backpacking abroad, she lived there with him for a while until he dumped her and left the apartment. But the woman remained living there. She lived secluded and only went out during dark, so even the neighbors had no idea, who was living there and thought that her ex were still staying there and she had left. When she learned that her ex started dating long-haired women, she began her career as ‘Hammer Man’. She managed to struck down three women, and her actions were spinning into a urban legend. The
press dubbed her the nickname, probably assuming that only a man would use a hammer. Even the police assumed that the culprit was a male, despite that none of her victims had ever been able to identify the gender of their attacker. Rumors were spreading that Hammer Man could run 100 meter in just 11 seconds and that he was least 180 cm tall. However when she attacked her fourth victim, she was seen by a drunk man. She threw the hammer away and tried to escape, but because she was wearing platform shoes to make herself taller, she couldn’t run very fast and the witness followed her to the apartment building. Her original plan was to pin her crimes on her ex, but the police arrived sooner than she expected, and she decided to remain hidden in the apartment and plan her escape. She refused to answer the door, when the police rang, which resulted that the police arranged a stack-out of the apartment. The detectives Takagi, Sato and Chiba were keeping an eye on her door and was joined by Conan Edogawa, Ran Mouri and Sonoko Suzuki, who were passing by. The resident put her escape plan into motion. She called three services, a home delivery, a bike delivery and a pizzeria, and placed delivery orders while disguising her voice. She then placed a note outside the door claiming that she was sick and had written instructions to handle the deliveries inside in the apartment. She cleaned up the place to remove traces of her DNA, fingerprints and clothes that could reveal her gender, since everyone still thought that the Hammer Man was a man. Her plan was to hide behind the door, knock down one of the delivery services people, who entered, and swapped clothes with the individual to sneak under the police surveillance without getting caught. The first to arrive was the Home Delivery man, who enter to deliver a box (or pick up a box in the anime version), but she let him go, likely because he was too huge to exchange clothes with. The second visitor was the bike delivery man, whom she found suitable and knock down. After switching clothes with him, putting on his jumpsuit, she staged his unconscious body to imitate an failed attempt at suicide, stole the recipes on him and the first delivery to prevent the police from calling the workplaces to verify their identities and left the apartment, before the pizza delivery man arrived. She was stopped by the police and questioned, but managed to talk Chiba into letting her go, while the rest of the police went to the apartment, fearing that Hammer Man was trying to escape by distracting them with the visitors.
Afterward she planned to change clothes at a park toilet, since she couldn’t drive the motor bike and didn’t want to be noticed taking a taxi wearing a jumpsuit or
draw attention by changing clothes in the toilet at a restaurant. In an attempt to further mislead the police she lured the pizza man into the toilet and knock him out, knowing that when the police discovered he hadn’t return to his workplace, he would become the main suspect giving her more time to escape. But Conan figured out the truth in the apartment and after he informed the police Shiratori managed to arrest her, putting an end to the Urban legend.
Category:2000s
Category:Anime Villainess
Category:Blonde
Category:Manga Villainess
Category:Nameless
Category:Fate: Arrested