Lt. Joe Kenda Shares His Top 5 Episodes Ever of "Homicide Hunter"

Synopsis: After Pamela Edwards is fatally shot in her home, the first task is to shield her two young daughters from the horrific crime scene. From there, Lt. Kenda follows the clues from a U.S. Olympic training facility to a seedy roadside diner. When the killer catches on, he leads police on a car and foot chase across Colorado Springs.

Lt. Kenda's Thoughts: "There were two young girls in that house, and their mother had been murdered. They were very small. I was able to prevent them from seeing her body by playing a game where I'd cover them with a blanket. They remember that. On the show, Pamela's daughter, Tenayia Adair, said, 'They rescued us that night.' You don't realize sometimes the effect you have on people, and you try to do your best, but you don't know if it's enough or not. Her saying that meant a lot."

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Synopsis: On her way home from a support meeting for Lupus patients, Dianne Hood, a mother of three, was shot to death by a masked assailant. Investigators deduced it was a robbery gone wrong, but Lt. Kenda believed the gunman intentionally targeted the victim. In the course of the case, Lt. Kenda uncovers a sordid web of lust and greed, exposing a particularly cold-blooded crime.

Lt. Kenda's Thoughts: "This was evil. Here was a woman, a mother of three kids, with an illness, and her husband had a girlfriend. He decided she needed to be dead so he could collect insurance money. So, the husband and his girlfriend plotted for eight months to murder this woman. We got to the truth in three days."

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Synopsis: Back when he was a sergeant, Kenda and his fellow officers faced off against a hostage-taking gunman. When Kenda's wife, Kathy, called the precinct with an emergency at home, dispatch inadvertently patched her through to her husband in the heat of the standoff. Kathy overheard shots being fired, which led to her grappling with the life-and-death realities of him being on the frontline of crime — a job she had encouraged him to take.

Lt. Kenda's Thoughts: "That was a family effort. My wife and kids appeared on that show, which I never thought they'd do. I was surprised! The show provided insight into how other people in a police officer's life suffer. It showed that [the] police are like everyone else. Police are human, too."

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Synopsis: In 1977, after veteran murder investigators deemed a grocery store shooting "unsolvable," Kenda, then a rookie burglary detective, saw a chance to advance to the homicide squad by finding the gunman. With a generic charm bracelet as the only clue, Kenda worked tirelessly to solve the case, and along the way ran into plenty of dead ends and self-doubt.

Lt. Kenda's Thoughts: "Well, that was it. I had been a laughingstock. The other detectives teased me because I was a 'college boy.' I put everything on the line when I volunteered to take that case. It was all or nothing, and I bet it all. If it didn't work, the rest of my career would have been spent chasing stolen television sets."

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