that's awesome. :-)

I just saw DOUBLE SHOCK again, and I noticed a further one, since they each have someone mistaking an art object for an ashtray. In OLD-FASHIONED MURDER it's Janie of course, and in DOUBLE SHOCK it's Columbo himself.

this is one of my least fave episodes....and full of "holes" as you describe Irene...plus the Celeste Holme character passing out is simply too over the top for me....
I do however like the "tone" of the episode and Joyce Van Patten plays the character with fine restraint...

We are on the same page!

I just watched this yesterday, and my two takewaways were "no gunshot residue on either victim's hands", and didn't make sense she would implicate the Neice, who she seemed to care for dearly, "like her own daughter" she said.

I guess Ruth was both desperate and evil!