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'Columbo,' 'Murder, She Wrote' co-creator William Link dies

by Lynn Elber
| December 31, 2020 12:08 AM

LOS ANGELES (AP) — William Link, who co-created the hit series “Columbo” and “Murder, She Wrote” and made 1970s and ’80s TV movies about social issues then largely shunned by television, has died. He was 87.

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