RIP: Lt. Joe Kenda announces Homicide Hunter Season 9 will be the show’s last

[Machiavelli]

John
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May 27, 2019

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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[DCPatriot]

Nine years is enough.

How many ways are there to commit murder?         

[goatprairie]

What's great (among other things) about Kenda's show are the times he details what it's like trying to be a homicide detective in a large city while still trying to live a normal life...if that is possible for those people.
To watch how a typical homicide detective goes about his work down to the grisly details of stuffing his nose with Vic's vaporub to try to staunch the smell of dead bodies is fascinating.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to withstand almost four hundred homicide investigations as Kenda did and not go wacky yourself.

[Sanguine]

What's great (among other things) about Kenda's show are the times he details what it's like trying to be a homicide detective in a large city while still trying to live a normal life...if that is possible for those people.
To watch how a typical homicide detective goes about his work down to the grisly details of stuffing his nose with Vic's vaporub to try to staunch the smell of dead bodies is fascinating.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to withstand almost four hundred homicide investigations as Kenda did and not go wacky yourself.

I agree. I have enjoyed his show over the years.

[Gefn]

I agree. I have enjoyed his show over the years.

Whaaaaa! Love his show. If you haven’t read his book please read.

also the guy who plays a younger Kenda is very handsome

[Gefn]

My other favorite on the Network is Candace DeLong on Deadly women

[Sanguine]

Whaaaaa! Love his show. If you haven’t read his book please read.

also the guy who plays a younger Kenda is very handsome

 

[Gefn]

@Sanguine we have good taste in men!!! Lol

[Sanguine]

@Sanguine we have good taste in men!!! Lol

I'm a sucker for blue eyes!

[Gefn]

I'm a sucker for blue eyes!

I have blue eyes!

[Sanguine]

I have blue eyes!

Yes, but are you tall, dark and handsome?

 

[Gefn]

Yes, but are you tall, dark and handsome?

 

No, ma’am I’m petite, fair, and cute.