The After Show: Badass Detective
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ABC News
3.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | To succeed in the future of work, forward thinkers use AI to deliver measurable results. |
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| 0:19.0 | Hi there, everybody, and welcome to 2020, the After Show. Always a pleasure to have you all with us. |
| 0:25.9 | Now, if you've followed us over the years and so many of you have, you know that we often report on stories that really resulted from cold case files. |
| 0:34.4 | And today, our episode is going to center on a man who some have called a crime |
| 0:39.5 | solving hero. His name is Detective Matthew Hutchison. He's with the Sunnyvale Department of |
| 0:45.4 | Public Safety in California. And when he came on board, he made it his mission to try to crack |
| 0:51.3 | open decades-old mysteries. I mean, families who were left with no |
| 0:55.7 | resolution to these murders. Well, we're going to look into some of the chilling cases that he |
| 1:00.9 | solved and reveal some new details from the victim's family members and uncover some of |
| 1:05.8 | the unique methods that Detective Hutchison has used to put murderers, longtime murderers behind bars. Our John |
| 1:13.7 | Cignonas is here with us today. John, nice to see you. Hi there. Hey. Good to see you, Deb. |
| 1:20.4 | Thank you for having me on. Always great. Always great chatting with you, John, because you know, |
| 1:24.7 | you and I go way back and we can just talk and talk and talk for days about a lot of our stories. But you, you've seen it all. We've seen it all. And you particularly |
| 1:33.1 | always bring this interesting spin. I mean, obviously you're just a great storyteller. But this |
| 1:38.7 | particular look at how we go about solving cold cases and what it means not only to the victim's families, |
| 1:45.8 | but law enforcement. |
| 1:47.1 | So you sat down with Detective Hutchison, and you talked about two of the cases involving teenage |
| 1:53.2 | women, and just give me a sense of him and why you were so intrigued by his work. |
| 1:59.2 | An amazing guy, Deb. |
| 2:01.0 | He's very likable. |
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