Lt. Joe Kenda of Homicide Hunter
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Steven D Gould
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Steve interviews retired Lt. Joe Kenda. Joe is well known for the TV Show Homicide Hunter which is based on his highly decorated police career in Colorado Springs, CO. He tells some great war stories from his career and describes what it's like going from cop to TV star. His new book "Killer Triggers" drops March 9th, see the link below to order it!
Lt. Joe Kenda, a twenty-three-year veteran of the Colorado Springs Police Department, spent twenty-one years chasing killers as a homicide detective and commander of the major crimes unit. Kenda and his team solved 356 of his 387 homicide cases, getting a 92 percent solve rate—one of the highest in the country. After retiring from law enforcement, he starred in Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, an American true-crime documentary series that ran for nine seasons on the Investigation Discovery network and was aired in sixty-nine countries and territories worldwide. At its peak, Homicide Hunter averaged 1.9 million viewers in the US. See Lt. Kenda on his new crime series, American Detective, available to stream now on discovery+.
Killer Triggers - Joe Kenda
https://www.amazon.com/Killer-Triggers-Joe-Kenda/dp/1982678356
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome to the podcast that interviews active and retired police officers about |
| 0:13.0 | their most intense bizarre and sometimes humorous moments on the job. |
| 0:16.6 | I am Steve Fould. |
| 0:18.0 | Thank you for joining me. |
| 0:20.2 | You guys have been awesome. |
| 0:21.2 | Thank you for all the continued letters and messages. |
| 0:23.3 | I've been on a little bit of a break, but I'm back now full force and boy, do I have |
| 0:28.2 | a doozy for you today. |
| 0:30.7 | I just learned recently that Lieutenant Joe Kinda would be available to come on the show. |
| 0:38.1 | Very excited for that. |
| 0:39.7 | And I'll get to that one second. |
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| 1:00.4 | Love to have you active and retired law enforcement, as I always say. |
| 1:03.9 | So let's get back to the subject in hand here, episode number 68, Lieutenant Joe Kinda. |
| 1:10.5 | The homicide hunter himself, he was on for almost a decade as TV show wildly popular with |
| 1:17.6 | true crime fans, just a really great and fun and sometimes disturbing show to watch. |
| 1:25.6 | He did 23 years, Colorado Springs Police Department, I don't know if you know Colorado |
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