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Even though you're in the top 0.1%, under no circumstances should you hire a hitman.
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Have some elaborate and complicated plan to create an alibi. It should involve changed clocks around or having everyone think you're there when you're really not. The more intricate your alibi plan is, the better. All of those 30 steps in your plan will go perfectly.
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You're gonna kill the closest person to you, either your spouse, your parent, or your best friend.
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Spend under 5 seconds feeling sad that the closest person to you is now dead. Get back to what you were doing before the murder. Let everyone know that you're a happier version of yourself before that person died.
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Befriend in the warmest possible way the head investigator for the murder you just did. Let the guy into your home and offer him any courtesy and assistance that you can provide. Let him get cigar ash all over your personal space.
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Let the police search your home at all hours. Never insist on a warrant. Talk to the cops like you would your family. Never demand your right to have a lawyer present.
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After the homicide department has discovered a few inconsistencies in your story, just confess the murder immediately. Accept that you'll spend the rest of your life in jail, there's not point in fighting.
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Look that pig in the eye that got you a long jail sentence with profound love
Sorry I just binge watched seasons 1-5
Judging from the clips I've seen, it seems that half the time Columbo catches someone, he uses impeccable logic and deduces who the killer was and explains it them before he takes them in, and the other half of the time he just invents some cockamamie bullshit to get the perp to incriminate themselves.
Its usually a bit of each every episode.
The Thin Man (I know his name is Nick) is the same way. He's apparently one of the greatest detectives ever, but he just drunkenly stumbles his way to the culprit because everyone gets spooked that the greatest detective of all time and fucks up.