1976-11-28 • 73 min
The female head of a museum hires one of the guards to rob the museum to collect the insurance money. But during the robbery she kills him and her own brother, and makes it look like they killed each other. The guard/robber's brother reports a strange message on his answering machine, that makes it seem that he has been killed. And Columbo gets the case. When Columbo first comes to the crime scene, he notices that the lights are off, a gold medallion in the robber's pants, and signs that pointed to the fact that he was going abroad after the heist. And he concluded that these clues mean that someone else was involved.
Joyce Van Patten
Ruth Lytton
Jeannie Berlin
Janie Brandt
Tim O'Connor
Michael Hatheway
Celeste Holm
Phyllis Lytton Brandt
Peter S. Feibleman
Milton Shaeffer
Jon Miller
Sergeant Miller
Jess Osuna
Tim Shaeffer
Anthony Holland
Darryl
Lucy Saroyan
Elise
Gary Krawford
Watch Salesman
Eloise Hardt
Maid
Morris Buchanan
Detective #2
Giles Douglas
Photographer