I will never understand Prince. On the first day, he allegedly creamates Chuck Houston, which in reality turns out to be the murder victim. He stores Chuck's body in the cooler ... the next day, another "client" comes in, a Mr. Lerby to be creamated. Prince creamates BOTH Houston and Lerby together.

QUESTION: Since this eventually does him in, why did he not think to creamate Houston and Verity Chandler together on the first day? He would have most likely gotten away with murder if he did it that way.

He could have just cremated her by herself when nobody was there and disposed of the remains.

Of course the fact that he forgot to remove her pager was a big clue for Columbo