Posted on 05/29/2019 1:04:50 PM PDT by EveningStar
It’s a sad day for fans of true crime television in general and groundbreaking show Homicide Hunter in particular. Lieutenant Joe Kenda, whose matter-of-fact delivery and dry humor helped turn the show into an international hit, has announced that Homicide Hunter Season 9 will be the show’s last. According to Kenda, the decision to end Homicide Hunter was surprisingly easy — if not easy to actually make — and stems from simple math.
We once speculated that Homicide Hunter could easily continue into its 20th season, given the number of cases Kenda worked while a member of the Colorado Springs Police Department. During his career, Kenda investigated 387 murders (and solved 356 of them). And as of Season 6, Homicide Hunter had aired 82 episodes. Those figures, combined with the show’s huge fan base, seemed to signal a lot more seasons to come.
But, as Kenda himself announced at IDCon 2019, things aren’t actually that cut-and-dry. In truth, most of the remainder of the cases in Kenda’s files are “too simple” to make for good TV — or they’re “too disgusting” to make it on the air.
Here’s Joe Kenda’s announcement that Homicide Hunter Season 9 will mark the end of the show, followed by a transcript of his remarks:
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Watching the show makes me believe Colorado Springs is the murder capital of America and almost every murder is committed by a white person.
He’s cute.:)
The very first episode had the white girl that wanted to go out to a bar but her black bf and her sisters black bf became top suspects after she went missing and once they found the body. It was the sister’s bf that killed the woman. Weird thing is he only got 6 years and served only 3, and this was in 1991.
I look forward to new episodes. Heck, I look forward to old ones I’ve seen six times.
Never watched the show...what network or is it streaming?
That actor turns 49 in about 3 months
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And impossibly handsome. (unlike the real Joe..lol)
Watching the show makes me believe Colorado Springs is the murder capital of America and almost every murder is committed by a white person.
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Lots of interracial couples.
Joe Kenda seems like he just walked out of a noir film somewhere. He reminds me of that type. Hubby and I both love him. Carl Marino, the actor that plays younger Kenda, is a good guy too. He and his wife ran the Boston Marathon this year and raised over $35,000 for cancer research. I wish them both continued success.
His demeanor and delivery is pure Joe Friday.
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