480: Homicide Hunter: The Man with No Face
True Crime Obsessed
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
All right Fam, get ready for our first-ever episode covering the icon himself: Joe Kenda. We're in Colorado Springs, on June 5, 1988. The brutalized body of 24-year-old Mary Lynn Vialpando has been discovered in a back alley. There are almost no clues to who killed her. But Joe Kenda is on the case. When Mary Lynn's husband frantically appears at the crime scene, he becomes suspect number one. But in the first case in Colorado's history to use DNA technology to solve this crime, it would take years for the killer to be caught and for Mary Lynn to receive some measure of justice.
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| 0:00.0 | Can I start by telling them that I accidentally took a two-hour nap today and I'm kind of just, like, I'm not even really awake yet. Sure. I think you just did. Yeah. You got here. I set my alarm for whatever, like 40 minutes and then I woke up like two hours later. You know what you did, though, you told me. I said it for a.m. instead of PM. There you go. And like, I guess I needed the sleep because I woke up like the building was on fire. That's great. |
| 0:21.7 | It was crazy. |
| 0:22.7 | Okay, great. |
| 0:23.3 | I'm still letting me sure this is real. Is this a dream? You have to tell me if this is a dream. It's very real. Okay. This is very happening. This is very happening. You bet your life it is a story. I'm obsessed. Hi, Jillian, Benzbole. Hello, Patrick Hines. What do we tell a little about? Discord and YouTube. Oh, Disky. Don't forget to join the Discord. Tell them what that is and how to do it. It's a server. It's a Discord server and we have one. And there are all these different channels and everyone's really nice and we're talking about like the episodes. but there's also a channel for like dog picks and there's also a channel about like music that |
| 0:56.7 | you're listening to and whatever. It's like the Facebook group, but like organized. A little bit more organized. Everyone's very nice, very helpful. Like a lot of people come in and they're like, I've never done this. What do I do? And there are people just jump in there. It's very, very kind. Also, we're on YouTube. We have almost 200,000 subscribers. Hi, YouTube, fam. I got to really strongly recommend if you have not ever watched our YouTube, go watch the Lilith Fair episode on YouTube because we are levitating. I am levitating off the chair. It is the most animated I've ever been in an episode. It's saying something. It was a gift for everybody, really. It was so much. |
| 1:28.4 | I cried twice. |
| 1:29.4 | Our last episode of the year. Yeah. Our last bonus episode of the year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What are we talking about today? Okay, everyone, the Jo Kenda fans, whatever you call yourself, the Kendi's, this is the man with no face. This is Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter. So he has like 11,000 seasons of that show that he has like three or four like full length documentaries. |
| 1:47.2 | This is one of them. |
| 1:47.8 | It's 20 minutes. face. This is Joe Kenda Homicide Hunter. So he has like 11,000 seasons of that show. |
| 1:44.7 | He has like three or four like full length documentaries. This is one of them. It's 20 minutes. |
| 1:48.5 | The male fan, or anybody who wants to, can we call herself the Ken Dolls? Sure. I'm sure that's a thing. All right, we're doing that then. I don't know how I didn't think Is it real? |
| 1:56.8 | I was good at what I did, but this case was so different. |
| 2:02.8 | You have no place to go in a murder case. I was good at what I did, but this case was so different. |
| 2:02.4 | You have no place to go in a murder case. |
| 2:04.8 | It eats at you. |
| 2:06.0 | What did we not see? |
| 2:07.7 | In 1988, DNA was just beginning to be a forensic tool. |
| 2:12.8 | He's still out there. |
| 2:14.0 | That's why I don't sleep with night. |
| 2:15.4 | What kept this case alive was everyone involved knew the DNA was coming. |
| 2:19.4 | Well, my, my, my. That is what we've been waiting for. |
| 2:23.3 | Homicide Hunter, the man with no face. Wednesday, March 8th at 9 on ID. |
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