In Homicide Hunter: Never Give Up, the body of a 20-year-old active-duty soldier, Darlene Krashoc, is found dumped behind a restaurant in Colorado in March 1987, a victim of torture and sexual assault. Lt. Joe Kenda and his team recall the series of events that occurred throughout the investigation and the many leads which turned into dead ends.
But before the case goes cold, Kenda has the foresight to meticulously package and preserve every piece of fluid evidence found at the crime scene. It was a costly and complicated endeavor at the time, one in which he noted, “it may never come to anything, but it could come to everything.” More than three decades later and the advent of new DNA technology, what it came to is definitively putting a name to Darlene’s killer: Michael David Whyte.
In this feature-length Homicide Hunter special, viewers follow along as Kenda and his team painstakingly recount the investigation from 1987 and the 2,000 pages of case files that never pointed them toward Whyte. Now, with DNA evidence collected at the scene more than three decades ago and with help from the cold case team at the Colorado Springs Police Department, the shadow in the night has a name, Darlene’s parents have justice, and Kenda has one less nightmare. |
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