Is it just me, but when I tie my shoes, the big loop is always on the pinky toe. When I tie my shoe off my foot, as if I'm tying someone's shoes, the big loop is on the big toe. Isn't that the complete opposite of how Columbo nailed Milo?
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I tried it, and that is true. Basically Columbo couldn't prove anything about someone else dressing Gene.
Here's another question. Milo's friend Buddy, who knew Milo was having problems with Gene, didn't he think something was up when Milo invited Gene over to their party? He was at the spa when Milo came over and knew Gene was going over the books to prove Milo was a crook.
It's not airtight but Columbo proved the only person who knew Gene had changed was Milo and the scuff marks on the floor from Gene's dress shoes and the assumption Gene didn't really work out that often and the loops on the shoe which I took Columbo's word for it.
Buddy was a patsy. He was an ex con so he wasn't very bright. Plus perhaps he knew or had a feeling Milo killed Gene and being the ex con that he was thought nothing of it and wanted to protect himself so he didn't say anything. That's speculation on my part not based on the actual details of the show.
Isn't that the complete opposite of how Columbo nailed Milo?
A right handed person would point the loop to the left so on the left foot the loop would face the little toe and on the right shoe the loop would face the big toe. So the opposite would be the case if a person is tying someone else's shoe. But a person could also stand next to someone and tie their shoe and the loop would face the same way as if the person tied their own shoe.
shareYes, Columbo's demonstration showed how his own looping pattern changes based on whether he is tying a shoe on his foot or a shoe facing him.
The victim was left handed anyway. I thought he was going to prove with the shoes that they were done by a right handed person, when the victim was left handed, therefore not tying his own shoes, but anyway.
shareHowever, further on in the exposition Columbo makes it perfectly clear that his demonstration is not his proof. His proof is comparing the picture of the loops on the gym shoes with the man's actual dress shoes which were slipped off that night still tied. It is the INCONSITENCY of the way the loops are tied between the two pair of footwear that is telling Columbo the man did not tie the gym shoes --- ergo that must have been done after he died.Excellent point! I believe that point as well as Milo knowing that the guy had changed into gym clothes also incriminated him. It was obvious he had been running for his life on the newly buffed floor; leaving those brown heal marks. The only person that would know his clothes were changed was the person who changed them.
I believe that point as well as Milo knowing that the guy had changed into gym clothes also incriminated him.
He could try, I suppose, but Columbo seldom arrests someone on just one piece of evidence. I seem to recall Milo saying, "Simple. I can explain that, yada, yada, yada." After explaining several things away and then speculating that some killer with a foot fetish came along and killed the guy probably wouldn't help him much.
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