Columbo

Columbo (1971)

3 mistakes in Undercover - chronological order

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Starring: Peter Falk

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Undercover - S12-E3

Factual error: At the crime scene, the landlady of the dead man is brought into the room in order to identify one of the dead men. This is never, ever done - she could contaminate the crime scene in a dozen different ways. She would be asked to identify the corpse at the morgue after the scene had been cleared by forensic examiners.

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Suggested correction: Completely wrong. Immediate identification of a murder victim is vital to the continuing investigation. As long as the landlady was under escort (she was) and did not touch anything in the room (she did not), she would definitely be asked to identify the dead man. There are too many examples to list, but when actor Bob Crane was murdered in 1978, his theatre co-star Victoria Berry was escorted onto the crime scene to confirm the identity of the dead man - Crane.

Columbo: Oh, I didn't come to ask any more questions. I came to arrest you.

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Identity Crisis - S5-E3

Question: The examiner says he can't tell which blow hit the victim first. Columbo says he's lying on his back and says the blow to the forehead was first. Why did he think that? If the first blow hit him on the forehead and he fell on his back, how did he get the second blow on the back of his head while he was lying that way?

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Answer: Columbo deduces that the first blow must have been to the front of the head, the force causing the victim to fall backwards and hitting the back of his head hard on the ground.

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