Columbo solving modern crimes
It could be a fast Tiktok video
I was watching an old Columbo rerun the other night and this idea came to me. How would it be these days where Columbo had to solve a murder?
With security cameras all over, he wouldn't have to do much. It would almost be a 30 second TikTok video.
I did a Columbo cartoon awhile back, where he is asking Siri for the answer to the crime. But now with ring cameras and security cameras in every business and in so many homes, that's a big help for solving crimes.
There's a tv show I like called, See No Evil. It's one of those murder shows in the I.D. Channel. They solve murders by following the cameras.
What I mean is, they track the killer through his steps shown on security camers - seeing his car through a gas station security cameras, then from a motel camera, then across the road from a supermarket or bank camera, etc. We're always on camera.
My mother used to always say that Columbo solved crimes through circumstantial evidence - never concrete proof. But he managed to do it week after week.
After seeing so many reruns, I can always tell that he knows the murder from the start. From his first question, he knows who it is. What's interesting about the show is that you see the murderer commit the murder at the beginning of the show, then Columbo comes in and does his thing.
When I was a kid we watched all those shows including Murder She Wrote, McCloud, McMillan and Wife and of course Columbo which was always my favorite.
Here's another Columbo cartoon; I've done a number of them. You can see all my cartoons, not just Columbo, but everything at TomFalco.com
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