Joe Kenda Biography, Age, Family, Law enforcement, Television Show, Contacts, Police Department, Sea

Joe Kenda is a retired American Police Department detective lieutenant from Colorado Springs who was involved in 387 homicide cases over a 23-year career, with a closure rate of (356/387) 92%. He is featured on the Investigation Discovery television show Homicide Hunter, where he recounts the stories of he has solved.

Joe Kenda Age

Joe Kenda was born on August 28, 1946, in in the western Pennsylvania town of Herminie, Pennsylvania, about 30 miles (48 km) southeast of Pittsburgh United States. Joe Kenda is 72 years old as of 2018.

Joe Kenda Salary

Joe Kenda makes a decent salary that can fund his lifestyle. Joe Kenda has made some fortune from his work. He gets a salary of  $600,000.

Joe Kenda Family

Joe Kenda uncle, father, and grandfather were coal miners. His mother was originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado. At a young age, he was fascinated with crime, especially murder.

Joe Kenda recalls a childhood trip to the Pittsburgh Zoo, where a sign near the primate house declared, “Around this corner is the most dangerous animal on Earth”; turning a corner Kenda found himself staring into a mirror.

Joe Kenda Education

Joe Kenda attended Greensburg Central Catholic High School in 1964. He later joined the Ohio State University. After graduating with a B.A. in political science, Kenda earned a master’s degree in international relations from Ohio State University in 1970.

Joe Kenda Wife

Joe Kenda married his high school girlfriend Mary Kathleen “Kathy” Mohler on December 26, 1967. In 1973, Kenda, his wife, and their two children moved to Colorado Springs, where he joined the police department. The couples were blessed with two children. They all appeared on the Homicide Hunter episode “Married to the Job”, which aired on February 6, 2019.

Joe Kenda Children

Joe Kenda has two children Dan, a retired United States Navy commander, and Kris, a retired the United States Air Force major.

Joe Kenda Law enforcement

Joe Kenda worked for a time at his father’s trucking business. In 1973, Kenda, his wife, and two children moved to Colorado Springs, where he joined the police department.

Joe Kenda abandoned plans for a career with the Foreign Service after a classified briefing with the Central Intelligence Agency left him unimpressed.

While at the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD), he became a detective worker. He worked in the CSPD homicide unit for over 19 years and eventually led the homicide department. for he said, “I loved the work,”.

Joe Kenda investigated 387 homicide cases, solving 356, a closure rate of 92%. He credited his ability to close cases to being a student of human nature and being good at telling when people were lying.

In 1990, he investigated the case of a woman named Dianne Hood who was murdered at a lupus support group meeting by an attacker who took her purse.

According to Kenda, the case “met the standard for a Hollywood plot” and received a great deal of media attention, including a People magazine story and several books. Near the end of his career, his wife became convinced that he would be murdered on the job.

So she confronted him about it in one night after he came home from work. His family moved to Falcon, Colorado, in 1993, and Kenda retired three years later.

In an interview in 2018, Kenda explained that his decision to retire was motivated by an incident on August 1996, involving a 74-year-old man who had sexually assaulted his five-year-old grandson; as there were no open interrogation rooms that day, Kenda had the man brought to his office.

When the man justified his abuse by saying the boy he “came onto him”, he then recalled that he “wanted to just kill this guy”, and put his hands on him before fellow officers intervened and Kenda ordered the man taken out of his office.

Joe Kenda then sat down at his typewriter and typed out his letter of resignation, effective September 1, 1996. For the next several years, he 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

Joe Kenda Net worth

Joe Kenda is a retired American Police Department detective lieutenant who has an estimated net worth of $3 million dollars as of 2019.

Joe Kenda Police Department|Injury

Joseph Kenda the veteran of Colorado Springs Police Department detective, Lieutenant worked in homicide for over 19 years. He has solved almost all of the 400 cases he has come across in his career, with an astonishing 92% solve rate.

In Homicide Hunter, he looks back over his career and the cases he has worked on. Joe Kenda was fascinated with true crime from a young age and talks about a trip he made to Pittsburgh Zoo when he saw a sign pointing the way to “the most dangerous animal on earth.”

When Kenda followed the sign, he found himself looking into a mirror. He realized that “Animals kill for need. Humans kill for pleasure.” Originally looking to pursue a career in the Foreign Service, Kenda studied political science at university and did a Master’s in international relations at Ohio State University in 1970.

However, he changed his mind after he attended a classified briefing. In 1973, Kenda moved with his wife—his high school girlfriend Mary Mohler and two children to Colorado Springs, where he joined the police department.

Kenda spent over 19 years working in homicide. Over time, he was promoted to detective and eventually put in charge of the homicide unit. During the course of his tenure, he worked on some of the department’s most high-profile homicide cases.

One of the most prominent cases Kenda worked on was the murder of Dianne Hood in 1990, a case is known as the ‘Fatal Attraction’ killing that Kenda said, “met the standard for a Hollywood plot”.

Hood was shot twice on her way out of a Lupi’s support meeting in what was dressed up to look like a mugging gone wrong. Police later found out that Hood had actually been at the center of a love triangle and had been killed by her husband’s mistress, Jennifer Reali.

Reali and Brian Hood were sentenced to life and 37 years in prison respectively. The brutal 1995 murder of pregnant woman Yvonne Sisneros and her two children is what Kenda cites as his most memorable case.

Sisneros and her children were stabbed multiple times with different objects and their heads crushed with free weights. James Joseph Perry was arrested and went to trial for the crime, but was acquitted by the jury.

Although he was retired at the time of the murder, he was brought in to consult. Kenda blames deficiencies that occurred at the beginning of the investigation for the fact that the murderer has never been found.

Kenda’s wife always worried that he’d be killed on the job and in 1996, he retired from the force. Retirement didn’t suit him though, and when he was approached about revisiting his past cases for a television programme, he accepted.

Joe Kenda Television Show

In 2008, Joe Denver was a declared television series editor with Patrick Bryant who worked with as a freelancer for several production companies for over ten years, having edited over two hundred episodes of various series on networks including Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Channel and TLC.

Joe Kenda edited sizzle reels for development departments of production companies, helping with their efforts to sell new series to TV networks. In 2009 Bryant decided to try his hand independently by creating his own series as a producer.

Joe Kenda Unscripted the re-enactment of American crime series which were extremely popular at the time, a logical choice for Bryant’s first effort. Years prior Bryant had lived in Colorado Springs and worked at a local TV station when Lt.

Joe Kenda was in charge of the Major Crimes Unit. Bryant had interviewed Kenda as part of a TV special about the local drug trade tied to a rising homicide rate. He left a lasting impression on Bryant as a great interview subject.

In 2009 Bryant contacted him to discuss the possibility of developing a TV series built around his career as a homicide detective. Kenda was slow to respond but eventually struck an agreement to pursue the development of the series with Bryant.

A 5-minute sizzle reel created by Bryant and Kenda was shown to FOX21 Studios in Los Angeles, who shopped the series to multiple TV networks. It was acquired by Investigation Discovery in 2010 and went into production in February 2011.

Joseph Kenda surprised the television producers when they asked him to read a script. He refused, by stating, that “I’m not an actor. I’m a policeman. If you want me to tell you about this case, I will. If you want me to read that, get somebody else.”

Joseph Kenda spoke off the cuff for 15 minutes without a script, and the producers were enthralled. Since then he has been working without a script. The series was titled Homicide Hunter: Lt Joe Kenda, first aired on September 2011 on Investigation Discovery network, becoming a top viewer rating performer.

Kenda was noted for his glass-smooth, matter-of-fact deadpan delivery, and his catchphrase “Well, my my my…”. He gave his producers 30 of his past cases to read, and they picked the men they believed were most suited for television audiences.

The first season was shot in Hollywood, but all re-enactments since have been filmed in Knoxville, Tennessee and the surrounding area. Casting calls for actors are periodically held in the Knoxville area.

A younger version of Kenda is portrayed by actor Carl Marino, a former deputy sheriff in Monroe County, New York. Kenda admits he looks over the case files before shooting but said his memory is “absolutely perfect”.

Each episode takes four hours to shoot. He has been humbled by the success of the show, which has been renewed for an eighth season and has aired throughout the world.

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