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Homicide Hunter
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Homicide Hunter (also known as Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda) is an Investigation Discovery television series showcasing the career of retired Colorado Springs police detective Joseph Kenda. He was a homicide investigator for 19 years and the show is based on his past cases which take place in Colorado Springs at the Colorado Springs Police Department. | |
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Fair Cop | |
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Fair Cop: The actor who plays young Kenda in reenactments is Carl Marino, who is attractive enough to have earned quite a few real-life fangirls.note Marino was a sheriff's deputy for many years, making him a literal example of this trope. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Badass: Kenda is a veteran detective and has been retired since 1996. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Kenda has a lot of fascinating stories to tell. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: Kenda bears no ill will when defendants are acquitted or have their convictions overturned, writing it off as the justice system doing its job. | |
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Passion Is Evil: Kenda describes emotion as being what makes people so dangerous. | |
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I Miss Mom | |
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I Miss Mom: Friends and family of the victim are often interviewed for the show and they talk about their loss. | |
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Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome | |
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Chronic Evidence Retention Syndrome: The killer in "Preying On The Innocent" traveled with a suitcase full of bloody clothing, along with the shoes he wore at the time of the murder. | |
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The Stoic | |
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The Stoic: Kenda. | |
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No Sympathy | |
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No Sympathy: In regards to suspects. His only moments of true sympathy appear to be reserved for the mentally ill who genuinely couldn't control or understand their behavior—in one episode, police are forced to shoot a man who was rampaging through his neighborhood. Kenda offers the man a sincere apology—"We had to take your life. And I'm sorry we had to do that." (The fact that the man may have actually been trying to commit Suicide by Cop makes him feel even worse.) A reporter who frequently worked with him notes that she'd never seen him look so sad before. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Kenda stated that he has seen people die from everything except a nuclear weapon. | |
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Heroic Dog | |
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Heroic Dog: A little girl manages to escape from her house, where her father is holding her and her mother hostage, by claiming that she needs to take the dog for a walk. When she walks out of the house and encounters Kenda and his fellow officers, Kenda mentions being afraid that the dog would bark and alert the gunman to their presence, but instead, he kept quiet, as if sensing that this was a very dangerous situation. He then pulled his mistress along towards the police, and out of danger. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: "I'm not your friend, I'm the police. And we're going to get to the bottom of this. When I leave here, I'm gonna have somebody's ass in my briefcase. And maybe it's gonna be yours." | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink | |
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Tampering with Food and Drink: In one episode a teacher is poisoned after someone slips pure sodium hydroxide (an incredibly powerful and corrosive substance) into her water bottle. Kenda cites this as a rather unusual method of attempted murder. note The assailant was a disgruntled student who swore that he didn't realize how much damage would be done. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The 2022 feature length Homicide Hunter: Devil in the Mountains is an expansion of the case of Ronald Lee White, who was featured in the season one episode "Chance Encounter". | |
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Dope Slap | |
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One episode has him catching a thirteen year old boy lurking around the crime scene because he was curious. While he basically gives him a Dope Slap over his foolish actions, he actually laughs a little as he recalls calming the poor kid, "because he's convinced he's going to prison." | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: The case that drove Kenda to retire involved a 74-year-old man who molested his 5-year-old grandson and then had the gall to claim the grandson came on to him. Kenda had to stop himself from strangling the guy. | |
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Death of a Child | |
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Death of a Child: Kenda hates working on cases with children as the victims. In more than one episode, he describes the feeling of witnessing dead children, and how it makes his blood boil. Kenda has said that after working on a case involving children, when coming home, he always hugs his kids. This is how his wife knows that Kenda has been working on such a case, so no conversation is necessary. | |
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Nausea Dissonance | |
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Nausea Dissonance: Goes with the job. | |
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Police Code for Everything | |
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Police Code for Everything: While reviewing the missing persons report on a woman recently found dead, Kenda notices the notation "JDLR". He mentions that police have a lot of codes and that this particular one stands for "just doesn't look right" note in this instance, the cop was suspicious of the husband's story and demeanor when reporting his wife missing. Sure enough, he was the killer. | |
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Medication Tampering | |
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Medication Tampering: An episode found that a man had injected insecticide into his hospitalized wife's IV (she was being treated for blood clots in her leg). However, he was thwarted when the IV system's alarm went off and shut down the pump upon detecting that a foreign substance had been introduced into the solution. Particularly stupid, given the man was a doctor himself and should have known that that would happen. | |
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Destination Defenestration | |
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One case features a man who murdered his family and despite Kenda's best efforts, was allowed to walk scot free. He got his comeuppance some time later when he got into a fight with someone in a high rise and ended up catching a severe case of Destination Defenestration. As Kenda dryly notes, "he didn't bounce so good." | |
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Ate His Gun | |
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Ate His Gun: A handful of criminals have taken this measure when confronted by the police. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: An episode began with a young Kenda having been shot. Given that he's been narrating the series for several years, it's a safe bet that he's going to survive. (As it turns out, he wasn't shot, diving to the ground Just in Time.) | |
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Living Lie Detector | |
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Living Lie Detector: Kenda has honed this ability over the years. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: “People are capable of anything.� | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident | |
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Make It Look Like an Accident: Usually fails ridiculously, but sadly may have succeeded in one episode. While Kenda is clearly certain that a man killed his estranged wife, crime scene techs find that it was in fact possible, however unlikely, for her to have committed suicide in the manner depicted. Plus, the handwriting on her suicide note could not be shown to not be hers, or shown to be the suspect's. With all this, the prosecution decides that there's too much reasonable doubt and drops the charges without ever bringing him to trial. | |
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The Insomniac | |
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The Insomniac: Kenda has admitted to having trouble sleeping due to the things he's seen on the job. | |
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Blatant Lies | |
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Blatant Lies: | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: It's great when a killer is caught, but it doesn't take away the pain and loss felt by loved ones of the victims. Kenda cites this in one of the only cases where he got a truly happy ending—reuniting an abducted infant with her mother. In another episode, he finds another missing child safe...but now has to separate her from her drug addicted mother, who made the whole thing up to get money to support her habit. | |
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Lonely Funeral | |
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Lonely Funeral: Kenda and his colleagues are shown in one episode to be the only people attending a victim's funeral. They also chipped in and bought the victim a gravestone. | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness | |
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A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Kenda often points out how a death could have been avoided had people stopped to think about what they were doing. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Kenda never raises his voice in narrations or reenactments, but it's not hard to tell when he's furious. | |
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Innocent Bystander | |
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Innocent Bystander: | |
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Cradling Your Kill | |
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Cradling Your Kill: A victim who hasn't died yet is able to tell Kenda that her assailant did this after shooting her. With this, Kenda deduces (correctly) that her attacker knew her. | |
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Always Gets His Man | |
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Always Gets His Man: Kenda's solve rate may not be 100% (it's 356/387 or 92% according to That Other Wiki), but it is well above the national average. | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him! | |
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If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: This is the reason Kenda is so proud of the fact that he never fired his weapon—he believes it would have been stooping to the level of the very criminals he wanted to put away. | |
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Bribe Backfire | |
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Bribe Backfire: One witness who was at an apartment complex with his mistress offered Kenda a few hundred dollars to keep his name out of the papers. It was the first, last, and only time Kenda was offered a bribe, and he went OFF on the guy. | |
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Domestic Abuse | |
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Domestic Abuse: Kenda often suspects a woman's husband or boyfriend as her assailant and is usually (correctly) convinced of this as the investigation proceeds and he learns that the man in question was abusive. This is subverted in some cases where the significant other turns out to be a red herring. In one episode, a man holds his wife and daughter hostage. Kenda states this is the first time that he thought he might have to use his gun. | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty | |
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Karma Houdini Warranty: In a real life example straight out of Law & Order the episode 'The Master Key' ends with the suspect acquitted of stabbing a pregnant woman and her 2 children to death, then, less than a year later, being shoved out a 10th story window. | |
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Conviction by Counterfactual Clue | |
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Conviction by Counterfactual Clue: Kenda makes a lot of assumptions based on the little things he observes at crime scenes. In one instance, he instantly deduces that robbery was part of the motive for a woman's murder when he notices that her purse is open. | |
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Almost Dead Guy | |
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Almost Dead Guy: Plenty of cases start with someone stumbling on a victim who is clinging to life. Sometimes they die despite efforts to save them, other times they pull through. | |
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Death Glare | |
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In one segment, Kenda mentions feeling sick to his stomach when given the address of a crime scene. It's a bar that he and his wife frequently visit and with that, he knows that it's highly likely that he knows the victim. Indeed, it's the owner. Kenda promptly kneels at the woman's body and takes her hand—a major violation of police protocol—and whispers an apology, while giving a Death Glare to the officer who chastises him. In the present, Kenda tears up while recalling the case, indicating that it still affects him. He freely admits to being pleased at seeing that her killer Ate His Gun and also states that he might have taken matters into his own hands had he had the chance. | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill | |
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Bavarian Fire Drill: When Kenda arrives at the hospital to speak with a victim, the doctor tells him that he can't, as she's resting. As Kenda is leaving, a nurse idly greets him as "Doctor". He realizes that as longs as he acts as if he belongs there, no one will question him. With this, he finds his way to the victim's room. At this point, his tactic backfires spectacularly when the young woman wakes up screaming in pain from her injuries and the responding nurses assume he's done something to her. More amusingly, he was once caught... by his wife, who happened to be working at that hospital. | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode | |
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Formula-Breaking Episode: One episode doesn't feature any cases, but is instead a look at Kenda's marriage and family life. | |
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Lead Police Detective | |
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Lead Police Detective: Kenda's typical position, even when he was a uniformed Sergeant. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: A handful of suspects. | |
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I Didn't Mean to Kill Him | |
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I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: This is sometimes used as a defense by the killer, who claim that they were just trying to scare or fend off the victim. At least one perp has made the mistake of using this defense after shooting a man they kidnapped at gunpoint. As Kenda points out in narration, felony murder doctrine means they just effectively confessed to 1st degree homicide. | |
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Suicide by Cop | |
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Suicide by Cop: The investigation into two officer-involved shootings that Kenda was linked to (though it wasn't him pulling the trigger) reveal that the deceased was trying to do this. | |
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Friend to All Children | |
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Friend to All Children: One of Kenda's Berserk Buttons is crimes involving children, and he also takes it upon himself to try to emotionally protect children at crime scenes as much as possible. In one episode, a young boy and his dog are brought into the station after his mother's murder. Kenda becomes incensed when everyone wants to call the Humane Society to collect the dog: He isn't nearly as hard on juvenile suspects as he is on adult ones. In one case, when he realizes that the two teenage boys who found the victim's body also stole money from his wallet, he chews them out good and proper—but ultimately lets them go.note After making sure he got the money back. One episode has him catching a thirteen year old boy lurking around the crime scene because he was curious. While he basically gives him a Dope Slap over his foolish actions, he actually laughs a little as he recalls calming the poor kid, "because he's convinced he's going to prison." | |
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For Want of a Nail | |
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For Want Of A Nail: As cited in the "Disaster" post, if a man had been willing to pay a professional to install a new water heater rather than try to do it himself, he wouldn't be facing quintuple manslaughter charges, nor be so guilt-ridden that he decided to kill himself. | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Kenda is very open about his feelings when cases really bother him, and the fact that he has PTSD. In many episodes you can tell some of the cases still really bother him and a few times he nearly breaks down on camera and has to take a moment to compose himself. He also admits that he doesn't sleep well because of what he does and that he decided to retire because he couldn't take the pressure of the job anymore. On Chris Hardwick's podcast, he tells a story of how he went to a therapist to help with his PTSD. By the time the session was over, the therapist was in tears and Kenda had to comfort him. | |
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Miranda Rights | |
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Miranda Rights: You'd be surprised how many people waive them. | |
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Bloody Horror | |
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Bloody Horror: At one point Kenda mentions that the reason for the stereotype about police detectives wearing cheap suits is because the nature of the job means they will get body fluids on their clothing, and at some point dry cleaners will simply refuse to accept them. Thus, just buy cheap suits because you're going to be throwing them away fairly regularly. Explicitly shown in one episode when Kenda and his partner happen upon a man who attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head, survives with massive facial trauma, and is struggling to reach the gun to finish the job. The two of them wrestle with the man on the floor to restrain him, in the process getting soaked with his blood. Kenda recounts his wife screamed when he went home to change and he surprised her, unaware she was there. | |
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Present-Day Past | |
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Present-Day Past: The cases cover the period of 1977 to 1996, but the fashions and such in the re-creations are normally contemporary to the time the show is filmed (from 2011 on). They do make the effort on obvious things (such as no personal computers early on and having to manually go through documents instead of having a computer record, and no cell phones except for the latest cases in his career), but the police cars are contemporary with LED lightbars and a cheap hotel in the late 1980s isn't going to have a large flatscreen television in the lobby (as is seen in the background of one episode). Arguably, this is an Acceptable Break From Reality given that the show is mostly set in interview format and is relatively low-budget. Partly averted in Homicide Hunter: Devil in the Mountains, which uses 80s-appropriate police cars. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "If you kill, I will find you." | |
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Do Wrong, Right | |
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Do Wrong, Right: Kenda's philosophy on lying to the police. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Kenda's unmarked black police cruiser. | |
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No Dead Body Poops | |
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No Dead Body Poops: Not on television, anyway. | |
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Didn't Think This Through | |
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Didn't Think This Through: Suspects generally don't. | |
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Asshole Victim | |
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Asshole Victim: Though Kenda is firm that murder is never justified, it can be hard to feel sorry for some of the victims. One victim made a practice of getting into relationships with Filipino military officers and then extorting money from them by threatening to get them removed from the army, which would mean being disowned by their family. Naturally, one of them didn't take too well to this and killed her. One case features a man who murdered his family and despite Kenda's best efforts, was allowed to walk scot free. He got his comeuppance some time later when he got into a fight with someone in a high rise and ended up catching a severe case of Destination Defenestration. As Kenda dryly notes, "he didn't bounce so good." There's a laundry list of cases of abusers finally pushing their girlfriends too far, with bloody results. | |
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The Convenient Store Next Door | |
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The Convenient Store Next Door: People tend to target places near where they live for robbery. Kenda has used this fact to his advantage in his investigations. | |
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Deadly Prank | |
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Deadly Prank: Narrowly averted in "After School Special". A student angry with his teacher spikes her water bottle with sodium hydroxide, not realizing how corrosive it is. The teacher suffers severe burns to her throat and mouth, but survives. | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster: In one episode, Kenda arrives at a house to find all five family members dead. Initially perplexed, as there are no signs of violence, he soon notices their cherry-red pallor—the classic sign of carbon monoxide poisoning. It turns out that rather than hire an expert, the family's landlord decided to replace their heater himself, but obviously had no idea what he was doing. While somewhat sympathetic to this man who is horrified to realize that he has five deaths on hands, he's also disgusted at the guy for being such a skinflint that he wasn't willing to pay for a professional who would have saved him all this grief. It switches back to sympathy when the guilt-ridden man kills himself. | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible | |
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Be as Unhelpful as Possible: A common attitude found among people that Kenda questions. At least initially. | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!" | |
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": After emptying the apartment building of a suspected mass murderer in order to protect innocent bystanders, the police call the man's apartment to announce their presence in the hopes that he'll surrender. When a woman answers, Kenda and the other officers have this reaction upon realizing that the killer now has a potential hostage. They rush in at the sound of a gunshot and her screams, fearing he's killed her as well. He didn't. He blew HIS head off. When Kenda and the other officers investigating an apparent mass murder scene realize that the victims actually died of carbon monoxide poisoning...and that the reason they themselves feel sick is because the house is still full of the stuff. In one episode, they realize that a victim's house is rigged with explosives and that they need to haul ass out of there before it blows up. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: In "The Case That Haunts Me", a 20-year old prostitute survived being struck with a wrench, sexually assaulted, stabbed, and thrown off a cliff into a ravine. She was able to make her way to a road and flag down a family driving by. At the hospital, she remembered most of the details of her attacker despite the trauma, which greatly helped Kenda catch him. | |
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It's Personal | |
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It's Personal: In one segment, Kenda mentions feeling sick to his stomach when given the address of a crime scene. It's a bar that he and his wife frequently visit and with that, he knows that it's highly likely that he knows the victim. Indeed, it's the owner. Kenda promptly kneels at the woman's body and takes her hand—a major violation of police protocol—and whispers an apology, while giving a Death Glare to the officer who chastises him. In the present, Kenda tears up while recalling the case, indicating that it still affects him. He freely admits to being pleased at seeing that her killer Ate His Gun and also states that he might have taken matters into his own hands had he had the chance. He doesn't deny his satisfaction at the death of other particularly repugnant criminals either. Several episodes have featured police officers being killed—Kenda states this happened seven times in his career. Aside from the incredible anger and grief at the loss of a fellow officer, there is also fear—Kenda points out that anyone willing to shoot a cop is willing to kill anyone. | |
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Nerves of Steel | |
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Nerves of Steel: Absolutely necessary if you work homicide. | |
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Enfant Terrible | |
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Enfant Terrible: Subverted in “Sacrificial Lamb�. A good chunk of the episode is spent investigating if a pair of 13 year old kids killed their friend as part of a satanic ritual, but ultimately it’s revealed they had simply been playing around with a loaded gun, and, by complete accident, shot their friend in the head. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
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Not So Stoic: Kenda is generally rather cool-headed, but he's stated in interviews that he developed PTSD from his work. | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life | |
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What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: The all-too-often reason for homicides. No reason at all. | |
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Disappointed by the Motive | |
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Disappointed by the Motive: Murder for really stupid, petty reasons is common. | |
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Cop and Scientist | |
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Cop and Scientist: An investigation into the origin of some suburban gunfire led to Sgt. Kenda and his small group of subordinates bringing in employees of a nearby engineering firm. | |
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Harmful to Minors | |
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Harmful to Minors: In one episode, a young boy's father murders his mother, and ends up being sent to prison for it. The boy is about to be separated from his dog by authorities, which is the only emotional support he had at the time. Kenda puts a stop to this right away. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Kenda's dry wit is a major appeal. One episode has a particularly hilarious example where Kenda attempts to prosecute a man who murdered a woman and her children. He fails, but years later, learns that the murderer got into a fight and was pushed out of a window above a street on a multi-story building. | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt | |
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Cop Killer Manhunt: Has happened twice thus far in the series. Kenda has stated that during his time as a police officer, seven fellow officers were killed in the line of duty. | |
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Knight Templar | |
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Knight Templar: Has shades of it. At one point he states that if he had his way with the justice system, punishments for murders involving women and/or children would "run to the right of Attila the Hun". | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Go ahead. Just try and harm a child. Or better yet, harm a child's loved one with the child watching. The final straw for him was a 74-year old man who had molested his 5-year old grandson. When he asked him why he'd done it, the man declared: "He came on to me!" Kenda states that the next thing he was aware of was three other cops trying to pull him off the guy, who he nearly strangled to death. Afterwards, he walked into his office, typed up his letter of resignation and handed it in. He is also, as he puts it, "offended by men who treat women badly. Deeply offended." | |
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Break Them by Talking | |
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Break Them by Talking: When interrogating suspects. | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy | |
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Imperiled in Pregnancy: Several stories have featured pregnant women being murdered by their boyfriend/husband. Although their pregnancies weren't necessarily the motive for the men's actions, it clearly didn't deter them either. | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop | |
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Good Cop/Bad Cop: Surprisingly, it's the first role that Kenda usually takes during interrogations. He's found people are far more likely to slip up and say something incriminating—or confess outright—if they think that he's on their side. | |
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I Should Have Been Better | |
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I Should Have Been Better: Cases that Kenda was unable to resolve eat at him. And it's not because he doesn't know who the killer is, it's because he does and can't prove it in court. | |
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Incriminating Indifference | |
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Incriminating Indifference: Kenda takes note of people's reactions and consistently gets suspicious of those who aren't reacting the way a person normally would. Case in point, he notices that a man who reported his wife missing was not only very calm, he hadn't followed up with the cops once in the several days since, something highly unlikely for a concerned spouse. | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Some of the supposedly ridiculous stories told turn out to be true—after a gun used in a robbery/murder is traced to its owner, the man claims it was stolen several weeks prior. Kenda is skeptical until the guy provides him with the police report, since people will often make false claims like this to avoid getting into trouble. | |
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Everybody Lives | |
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Everybody Lives: One episode has an infant kidnapped. Kenda successfully rescues the child without incurring any fatalities, and cites it as the only time he ever managed to Earn Your Happy Ending. | |
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Implausible Deniability | |
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Implausible Deniability: Kenda is clearly skeptical of a husband's claim of complete ignorance regarding his wife's Fake Pregnancy and her kidnapping a baby, but admits "It's not against the law to be an idiot or to believe what your wife's telling you, even if it makes no sense." | |
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Aftershow | |
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Aftershow: American Detective. The original show came to an end because Kenda felt that he had no more stories to tell and that anything else was either too boring or too gruesome to be discussed on television. Detective is presented in the same format, but Kenda is now telling the stories of other law enforcement officers. | |
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Spin-Off | |
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Spin-Off: Of a sort. The series American Detective is hosted by Kenda and narrated just as he does this one, but it's the stories of other detectives around the country. | |
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Death Notification | |
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Death Notification: Kenda would take it upon himself to personally inform people that their loved ones were dead. | |
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The Killer Was Left-Handed | |
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The Killer Was Left-Handed: Shows up in at least one case; Kenda eliminates suspects by seeing which hand they use to fill out a form. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
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Didn't See That Coming: Even a veteran detective gets thrown off guard from time to time. Case in point, he's genuinely shocked to find that the supposedly ridiculous story told to him by an abusive husband is true—he assumed that the man killed a guy who was hitting on his wife and then tried to shoot his wife. In truth, the wife killed the guy, then tried to kill the husband and spin the whole thing as self-defense (it seems that husband and wife liked to smack each other around). | |
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Fetishized Abuser | |
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Fetishized Abuser: Kenda once noted, "Crazy boyfriend? I LIKE crazy boyfriends." He also likes the Gender Flip version. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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Catchphrase: "Well, my, my, my." So much so that it's even woven into an episode title: "My, My, Merry Christmas" | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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Creepy Monotone: "My name is Lt. Joe Kenda and if you do not do exactly what I say, I will kill you right here and right now. You have the right to remain silent." - Kenda, when dealing with an armed suspect. He says it's scarier when its spoken calmly. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: As the police close in on a suspect who has barricaded himself in a cabin, they hear, as Kenda puts it, "A sound that every police officer knows", and realize that the guy is loading a gun which he proceeds to put in his mouth. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: | |
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Not His Blood | |
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Not His Blood: One episode has Joe recount coming home from a case and inadvertently scaring his wife Kathy because he was covered in blood from a victim who turned out to still be alive. Once the shock wears off, she says that it's interesting being married to him sometimes. | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot | |
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Vomit Discretion Shot: Kenda never vomits in reenactments, but other people do off screen. He has mentioned feeling nauseated by some cases, however. | |
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Malicious Misnaming | |
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Malicious Misnaming: A variation with a suspect: | |
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Great Detective | |
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Great Detective: Inverted. Kenda has repeatedly stated that he isn't smarter than anyone else, just more stubborn. | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending | |
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Earn Your Happy Ending: Kenda notes that one of the only genuinely happy endings he got in his career was the time he reunited a kidnapped infant with her mother. | |
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Historical Beauty Update | |
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Historical Beauty Update: Compare Carl Marino◊ (the actor who plays Kenda in the reenactments) to young Joe Kenda◊. (Granted, Kenda has aged quite nicely!) | |
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Pater Familicide | |
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Pater Familicide: There were at least three examples throughout the series' run: In one episode, Kenda is very upset to realize that a man murdered his wife, daughter, and grandson before turning the gun on himself (already depressed about his and his wife's deteriorating health, he was further upset about his daughter's impending divorce and somehow convinced that it reflected badly on him as a father). Kenda was already suspecting this trope, he just assumed it was the daughter's ex who was responsible. In another episode, he's equally horrified to realize the same thing about a cancer stricken and mentally ill woman who shot her husband and two children. The finale was a classic domestic violence situation in which an abusive husband tracked down his wife after she left him and shot her and their son before killing himself. | |
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Childhood Brain Damage | |
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Childhood Brain Damage: The victim in "Murder In a Bottle" was struck by a car as a kid, and he wound up associating with a bad crowd as a result. | |
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