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A powerful defense lawyer, whose cheating partner was blackmailing him that if he were to cut her off she would reveal damaging secrets about his job, murders his partner while implicating the other man. Lt. Columbo investigates.

A successful lawyer learns that his companion has been having an affair and upon learning of this throws her out. She in turn threatens to reveal his illegal tactics unless she gets some compensation for the time that they were together. He in turn, kills her and frames her boyfriend.—<rcs0411@yahoo.com>

When hot-shot criminal attorney Hugh Creighton learns that his one-time rock star girlfriend Marcy Edwards is having an affair, he throws her out. She blackmails him into letting her stay, at least until he comes up with the $5 million she's demanding, and he decides to kill her. She's been seeing her lover at their beach house, and Creighton spikes a champagne bottle to knock them both out. When Marcy's lover wakes up, he finds her dead and flees in panic. As for Lt. Colombo, he's immediately puzzled by the champagne corks he finds in the kitchen. When he catches Creighton in a lie, he's sure he's guilty. Proving that will be difficult since Creighton has a sterling reputation in the legal community and seems to have an iron-clad alibi.—garykmcd

Hugh Creighton is a successful lawyer who wins every case. When he learns his girlfriend Marcy is having an affair with a younger man, he dumps her. Marcy blackmails him into letting her back into his mansion and a payout of $5,000,000 within two months or she will expose his illegal activities. Creighton decides to kill her, and frame her lover for the crime, but he didn't count on matching wits with Columbo, who is hot on his trail.—90805 smith

A defence lawyer with a 100% record for winning cases kills his girlfriend after throwing her out of his estate when he learns she is having an affair with a younger man. She had then blackmailed him into either letting her stay at his mansion with a $5 million payoff or face a palimony suit which could've exposed his controversial methods.