Anyway, here’s a great social engineering technique (and notice, police procedural writers, how this particular one does in fact respect the murderer’s civil rights):

1. Offend the suspect with your suspicions to the point they become tilted.

2. When they angrily offer up the key to their apartment and tell you to search it in their defensiveness, act apologetic but then take the key out of malicious compliance. Then search their apartment.

No warrant required, and you’ve used the suspect’s ego against them.

Really I think most of Colombo’s technique involves testing people for fragile ego syndrome. He hardly uses the factual clues, instead pointing his attention in the direction of anyone he can get a reaction out of. Since he’s charming and polite, he really only annoys the guilty ones who would rather have him stop snooping.

(S1E6. There’s also some delightful commentary on the art scene in this one.)

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I should have gotten organized and created two distinct threads for Columbo, one about vintage fashion/design, the other about the deeper thoughts.

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But THIS outfit. Where can I get one??

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