Posted on 08/07/2018 4:16:02 PM PDT by EveningStar
Most former police officers don’t enjoy a retirement that involves any kind of celebrity, much less one that has yielded a signature wine inspired by their catch phrase, a book deal, and an annual namesake cruise to the Caribbean. But such is now life for 71-year-old Lieutenant Joe Kenda, whose Investigation Discovery series Homicide Hunter has made him a bona fide true crime star.
Kenda’s perch atop the roster of programming on the decade-old true crime powerhouse ID is secure (if not completely natural) in a lineup that includes Wives with Knives, Deadly Women and Stepford Lives of Stepford Wives. Homicide Hunter, true stories from his 23-and-a-half years on the job in Colorado Springs, attracted nearly two million viewers per week last season, its seventh, and shows no signs of slowing.
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I love Kenda. His shows remind of older Agatha Christie! in that they are written with a moral web and base behind them. It is something missing in so much crime retelling and stories on the tube nowadays - things are just written to be shocking, or funny.
Kenda puts just the right touch in there. He tells the event, the story, the aftermath, the dry sense of very light humor, and he also is very clear on how proper people should and do react to true evil. Including that of incompetent juries and bad judges and lawyers. I never miss it.
I even bought myself a “My, My, My” Mug. :)
Then you've seen my wife a few times. A lot of the shows are filmed here in Knoxville and my wife has been a character on the show some.
Joe & some of the regulars stay out in Colorado.
oops....sorry......marino is smokin’ for sure.....
I knew I would like Lt. Kenda when I heard him state that he was to the right of Atilla the Hun and favored the Death Penalty to be carried in a very painful way (i.e. no lethal injection nonsense).
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