He learns that she is having an affair with someone else and throws her out of his house. Rock star Marcy Edwards ( Cheryl Paris) has been the live-in lover of high-priced murder lawyer Hugh Creighton ( Dabney Coleman) for several years. Only two cigarettes played a role in the crime the cigarette containing the poison and the cigarette placed in the victim's hand after the deed had been accomplished. No explanation is given why Anders substituted his unsmoked cigarette butts with those of the victim's smoked butts. The only crime Anders could have been charged with was giving a false statement to police. But since no evidence implicating the suspect existed (other than motive and lack of alibi), he could not have been charged with the murder. The suspect could have been charged with tampering with evidence by altering the tape. The evidence didn't prove the date the vehicle was there. Columbo's evidence proved the suspect's vehicle, not the suspect, had been in the vicinity of the victim's home because the dog was not leashed or confined and ran loose in the nighborhood (a possible pet invisible fence is not mentioned in the episode). If it were, the District Attorney would not have prosecuted. NOTE: It is doubtful an arrest warrant would have been issued for the suspect. The fact that Clarke's dog scratched Anders' car, making distinctive marks because of its missing claw on one of its paws, provides further evidence that Anders had indeed visited Clarke's house before. Once Clarke takes one of the poisoned cigarettes and dies, Anders makes it look like Clarke had a heart attack at his desk.įinal clue/twist: Columbo can prove that the surveillance tape was fabricated, because the trees and bushes visible in front of the office appeared to have been trimmed in the morning, but had supposedly grown again by the evening. Anders then drives to Clarke's house, and switches a cigarette pack for the poisoned pack. Anders then pays two visits to his production office, once that night and again the next morning - so a surveillance tape there will show him at the office all day. He palms a pack of Clarke's cigarettes, which he doctors with a few drops of alkaloid poison nicotine sulfate. Anders decides to kill him rather than be disgraced by a scandal. Clarke plans to go public with the tape unless Anders resigns from the show. Clarke has resented that he was snubbed in favor of Anders, but now, he has got some leverage that he hopes will get Anders out of the CrimeAlert chair: a porn video that Anders starred in many years ago. One day, he gets an unexpected visit from his rival, the chain-smoking newscaster Budd Clarke ( Peter Haskell), whom he blocked from becoming the CrimeAlert host. Wade Anders ( George Hamilton) is a former security consultant, and now host of the popular America's Most Wanted-esque crime show CrimeAlert. Sonia Wolf & Patricia Ford & April Raynell "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health" Robert Culp returns to the series, playing Justin's powerful lawyer father (this is the only time, in his four appearances, that Culp did not play the killer). Because only the two students could know which car it was, they implicated themselves as the only ones who could have planted it, and in so doing, as the murderers as well. Rowe and Redman plant the murder weapon in that vehicle, but after it is found, Columbo reveals it is actually his wife's car. With an airtight alibi, the boys then plant evidence to make it look like the professor was killed because of a Mafia exposé he was working on.įinal clue/twist: Columbo tricks the murderous duo by letting them "overhear" details of a car owned by a suspect. While sitting at the lecture, they monitor the parking garage using a miniature TV camera and shoot Rusk by his car with a remote-controlled gun, both devices being hidden in their pickup truck's engine compartment. They fake a message to lure him away from the university just when Columbo will be giving a guest lecture to his class. In a variation of Leopold and Loeb, the two students decide to kill Rusk. Rusk threatens to expel spoiled fraternity brothers Justin Rowe ( Stephen Caffrey) and Cooper Redman ( Gary Hershberger) for cheating by stealing the final exam. Stephen Caffrey as Justin Rowe and Gary Hershberger as Cooper RedmanĬriminology professor D.E. Story by : Jeffrey Bloom and Frederick King Keller Two of the episodes, "No Time to Die" and "Undercover", were based on 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain and thus do not follow the usual Columbo format. These episodes have since been released on DVD in several regions as "season 10". The final 14 episodes of Columbo were produced sporadically as a series of specials, spanning 13 years from 1990 to 2003.
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