Killer Triggers with Lt. Joe Kenda
My special guest tonight is Lt. Joe Kenda who starred in Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda, an American true-crime documentary series that ran for nine seasons on the Investigation Discovery network and was aired in sixty-nine countries and territories worldwide. He's here to discuss his new book called Killer Triggers that's available now on Amazon!
The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn't an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a dangerous trifecta of triggers, as well.
This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw. In each case, I examine the trigger that led to death. I chose this theme for the book because even though the why of a murder case may not be critical in an investigation, it can sometimes lead us to the killer.
And even if we solve a case without knowing the trigger, the why still intrigues us, disrupting our dreams and lingering in our minds, perhaps because each of us fears the demons that lie within our own psyche -- the triggers waiting to be pulled.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. Okay. Yeah, tell me about it. I responded to a report of a homicide
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in a trailer park at 3.30 in the afternoon in the north end of the city. And when I got there and got out of my car, as usual, it's a circus.
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You know, there are EMTs and ambulances and fire trucks and police cars and the press and all the neighbors. And because it's 3.30 in the afternoon, everybody's awake, everybody's around. It's a mob scene.
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There's a policeman standing on a very small porch of this trailer. He puts three fingers down by his leg when he sees me, indicating three victims. Okay. So I walk up. I said, so? He said, well, there you go, sir.
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Thank you. I walk in. On the floor in the kitchen is a woman who's 27 years old. Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting MysteriousRadio.com.
