Good work Pedro. Nice to have a breakdown like this. Very informative.

I agree that this is very well done. Thank you for taking the time to do this. It was very informative.

I'm sure someone can correct me on these right away if I'm wrong.

In the original series at least, there are three murders of siblings, ANY OLD PORT IN A STORM, OLD-FASHIONED MURDER and LADY IN WAITING. I kind of doubt that the show was trying to "say" anything by this, but there were none committed against sisters, only brothers, but two where the MURDERER was a sister.


Also, there were three killings of uncles by nephews, DOUBLE SHOCK, SHORT FUSE and SUITABLE FOR FRAMING, and one killing of a nephew by an uncle, THE GREENHOUSE JUNGLE.

There's another killing of an uncle by a nephew in the early episodes, but I won't post it here because it's one of the rare spoilers in Columbo ;-)

A couple of additions from the later episodes:

A brother killed a brother in "Strange Bedfellows"
An uncle killed a nephew in "Death hits the jackpot"

Like a lot of you, I've never managed to really get "into" the later version. But JACKPOT is one of the exceptions for me, so I'm sorry I didn't think of it.

It took me a while to realize which episode of the FIRST version you meant, but now I see what you mean.

I don't know about the later version, but when it comes to the first series, there seems to be only one murder of a mother-in-law. Which is interesting, considering all the traditional jokes about that particular kind of murder!

Is there another uncle murdered? Or T'ISN'T there?