Joe Kenda

Joe Kenda

Nascimento : 1946-08-28, Herminie, Pennsylvania, USA

História

Joseph Patrick Kenda (born August 28, 1946) is a retired homicide detective Lieutenant from the Colorado Springs Police Department as well as a TV personality, actor and author. Throughout his police career (1973-1996), he was involved in 387 homicide cases over a 23-year career, solving 356, a closure rate of 92%. Kenda was unhappy with retirement and went through a withdrawal stage. He then worked as a special needs school bus operator for a decade starting in 1998. In 2011, he became the host and is featured on the Investigation Discovery true crime series Homicide Hunter, where he recounts stories of cases he has solved. He worked without a script for the entire series which ran for 9 seasons. In each episode, Kenda's present-day recollections are interspersed with reenactments, as well as additional commentary from police officers, journalists, victims' families and others who were involved in the cases. Both his resignation from the CSPD and period as a bus driver are shown in The End, the final episode of Homicide Hunter. He has also hosted the spinoff specials from the show. In January 2021, he became the host of the true crime series American Detective with Lt. Joe Kenda on discovery+, with each episode featuring Kenda discussing the cases of different homicide detectives in the United States. In August 2022, he hosted an ID special titled Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up, featuring a cold case he wasn't able to solve about the murder of a Fort Carson female soldier. He is an actor and writer, known for Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie (2017). He is the author of two books titled, I Will Find You (2017) and Killer Triggers (2021).

Perfil

Joe Kenda
Joe Kenda

Filmes

Homicide Hunter: The Man With No Face
Host / Lt., Colorado Springs PD
Joe Kenda's investigation into the brutal rape and murder of 24-year-old wife and mother Mary Lynn Vialpando goes cold until DNA technology leads cold-case detectives to the most unlikely of killers 30 years later.
Homicide Hunter: Devil in the Mountains
Host
A man found stabbed and burned launches Lt. Joe Kenda on a manhunt. When the trail goes cold, Kenda connects the dots among a string of otherwise unrelated heartless murders leading him into his first and only search for a serial killer.
Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up
Writer
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team of cold case cops uses Kenda’s groundwork to set a trap for a monster hiding in plain sight.
Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up
Self - Host
The unsolved rape, mutilation and murder of young G.I. Darlene Krashoc has haunted Joe Kenda in the years since he turned in his gun and badge. Until a crack team of cold case cops uses Kenda’s groundwork to set a trap for a monster hiding in plain sight.
Handsome: Um Filme de Mistério Netflix
Joe Kenda
Gene Handsome (Jeff Garlin) é um detetive de homicídios de Los Angeles. Ele procura dar sentido à sua vida pessoal enquanto tenta resolver um crime, o assassinato de uma mulher. Ele é conhecido pelo talento em resolver mistérios e pela incapacidade de solucionar seus próprios problemas.