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Homicide Hunter: American Detective
Homicide Hunter: American Detective

Homicide Hunter: American Detective

—Lt. Joe Kenda showcases homicide detectives from across the United States who worked tirelessly to put killers behind bars and bring justice to victims.
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Season 49 of 9 Episodes

  • When a young woman turns up dead in south Texas, Captain Federico Calderon fears the killer has disappeared into Mexico; as more bodies turn up, investigators pick up on the trail of a serial killer, leading to a showdown in the streets of Laredo.

  • In Minnesota, firemen put out a house fire and find a woman's body inside; Agent Rob Frank learns that the victim was babysitting a friend's daughter, who is now missing; it is a race against time to track down the killer with a horrifying motive.

  • Police find an accomplished U.S. Forest Service worker executed beneath a mound of snow in Northern California; a missing wallet and a pair of jumper cables send Investigator Greg Hagwood on a multi-state manhunt for the killer.

  • Deep in the kudzu of Alabama, police get a call about the body of a young man burned beyond recognition; Detective Kevin Palmer turns to the victim's phone records and picks up on a plot to lure the victim.

  • The body of a South Carolina man turns up floating in the Black River. Investigator Allen Morris, working his first homicide case, must scrutinize the victim's wife and mistress and ultimately untangle the web of deceit surrounding his disappearance.

  • Amongst the ashes of a barn fire, N.C. investigators discover the remains of two dismembered women; agent Nick Deming must dig into the victims' personal lives to uncover a revenge scheme and a killer.

  • A mother raises the alarm when her daughter goes missing from the Colorado house she had recently moved into; while Det. Ben Endreson is investigating, an unusual suspect comes forward to confess her involvement, but her story doesn't quite add up.

  • In the Miami suburbs, a hard-working mother from Trinidad vanishes into thin air; detectives Danny Smith and Jonathan Zeller soon uncover her secrets but then are stalled until they come up with a highly unusual way to smoke out the perpetrator.

  • A scene straight out of a horror film unfolds outside a Colorado police station, leaving one woman clinging to life and a second violently abducted; Det. Rick Archer soon uncovers a disturbing pattern that may have started a decade earlier.
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Lt. Joe Kenda showcases homicide detectives from across the United States who worked tirelessly to put killers behind bars and bring justice to victims.

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Joe Kenda, Andrew Erath, Jay Heselschwerdt, André Wilkerson, Rodney Roldan

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