i have to agree. I just watched this episode for about the third time in a year, and overwhelmingly the ending makes almost no sense to me. What Columbo finds doesn’t prove anything at all. It’s conjecture, at best. If the point of the episode is to try to find out who killed Rue McClanahan’s character then this episode fails. Which is probably why the name of McClanahan’s character wasn’t even mentioned during the last 15 minutes of the show including at the end where Columbo tries to prove this guy killed her. Each time I watch this I don’t see what the end has to do with the rest of the story, all it proves is that PERHAPS another body was cremated with this one. It doesn’t prove it was her body, It just proves that a guy was shrapnel was cremated, perhaps with someone else … perhaps not… all that was left in the urn was a piece of shrapnel.