Detective Joe Kendra Revisits Crimes That Define His Career In The Seventh Season Of ID’s Hit Series Homicide Hunter: LT. Joe Kenda — Kenda’s Autobiography “I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime” Releases on Tuesday, September 26
Murder changes the life of a victim, the convicted killer, and their families… but what about the investigator? Enter retired homicide detective Lt. Joe Kenda, who spent 23 years with the Colorado Springs Police Department and has seen his fair share of madness, mystery, and murder. With one of the highest case closure rates in the country at 92 percent, Kenda’s crime-solving process has helped bring closure to many heartbroken families. In each episode, he cracks open his case files using an eidetic memory that recalls even the smallest of details, with an intense, deliberate drawl and cool, no-nonsense demeanor that leaves viewers hanging on every word. The storytelling process of HOMICIDE HUNTER is a personal journey for Kenda as he chips away at painful memories that have long been suppressed. With 20 hours of Kenda catching killers, Investigation Discovery’s hit series HOMICIDE HUNTER: LT. JOE KENDA returns for its seventh season on Wednesday, August 23 at 9/8c.
“Someone once said that truth is stranger than fiction. As we embark upon another season of HOMICIDE HUNTER, I certainly found that to be true,” said Lt. Joe Kenda. “Yet here we are. More stories from the lives of ordinary people who became entangled in extraordinary events, and a therapeutic journey for me from a life of investigating violent crime. I hope you enjoy these windows into people’s lives and the events that changed them forever.”
In the premiere episode airing on Wednesday, August 23 at 9/8c, it’s the night before Halloween when Lt. Joe Kenda and the Colorado Springs Police Department are faced with a real-life nightmare. High school student Benny Messina is found barely clinging to life. As doctors race Messina into surgery, he makes a shocking revelation: another young man named Robert has also been shot. Unsure if Robert is still alive, Kenda and his team execute a rescue mission in a remote, wooded corner of Colorado Springs to find this victim before it’s too late. The investigation unravels a twisted tale of just how far a father would go to save his son’s reputation.
Other cases explored this season include the poisoning of a high school math teacher, an infant kidnapping, and the bombing of a bank where not a penny was taken.
ABOUT JOE KENDA
Lt. Joe Kenda, a 23-year veteran of Colorado Springs Police Department, reveals chilling memories of murders that still haunt him in the hit Investigation Discovery series HOMICIDE HUNTER. After 21 years of catching killers in the violent crimes unit, 19 of them served as a homicide detective, Kenda has memories that two decades of retirement, and even the best therapist in the country, can’t bury. During his tenure, Kenda and his team solved 356 of his 387 homicide cases, resulting in a 92 percent solve rate, one of the highest closure rates in the country.
ABOUT THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY “I WILL FIND YOU”
In his upcoming new book “I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime,” Lt. Joe Kenda shares the deepest, darkest, and never-before-revealed case files from his two decades as a homicide detective. Kenda’s book will remind readers that crimes like these are very real and can happen even in our own backyards. Filled with the macabre, complex cases that still haunt Kenda, “I Will Find You” reveals details that are just too gruesome to air on television and will shock readers like the best horror stories as Kenda divulges insights into the actions, motivations, and proclivities of nature’s most dangerous species.
On sale September 26, 2017, wherever books are sold.
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HOMICIDE HUNTER: LT. JOE KENDA is produced by Jupiter Entertainment for Investigation Discovery. For Jupiter Entertainment, Stephen Land is executive producer and Todd Moss is co-executive producer. For ID, Thomas Cutler is senior executive producer, Sara Kozak is senior vice president of production, Jane Latman is executive vice president of development, Kevin Bennett is general manager, and Henry Schleiff is Group President, Investigation Discovery, American Heroes Channel, and Destination America.
About Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (ID) is the leading mystery-and-suspense network on television. From harrowing crimes and salacious scandals to the in-depth investigations and heart-breaking mysteries behind these “real people, real stories,” the always revealing network challenges our everyday understanding of culture, society and the human condition. One of our nation’s fastest growing cable networks, ID delivers the highest-quality programming to approximately 85 million U.S. households and is available in both high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD). For more information, please visit InvestigationDiscovery.com, facebook.com/InvestigationDiscovery, or twitter.com/DiscoveryID. Investigation Discovery is part of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world’s #1 pay-TV programmer reaching nearly 3 billion cumulative subscribers in 220 countries and territories.
