Columbo

Fielding Chase has more than fatherly interest in Victoria, his twenty-five year old foster daughter, according to Jerry Winters, investigative reporter for Chase’s very popular radio show. When Victoria announces that a New York publisher referred by Jerry is interested in the novel she has written, and wants to meet her, Chase decides he must get rid of Jerry. He plans and carries out the murder, shooting Jerry in his Hollywood house while faking proof that he was at home in Malibu Canyon, at the same time planting evidence to incriminate Ted, an actor friend of Jerry’s.