The BEST episodes of Homicide Hunter: American Detective
Every episode of Homicide Hunter: American Detective ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Homicide Hunter: American Detective!
In American Detective, Kenda trades in his own case files to bring viewers astounding investigations from across the country, with each episode featuring a different homicide detective whose tireless efforts helped put a killer behind bars and bring justice for the victim.

#1 - Death Roll
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/2022
Gunshots ring out in broad daylight, killing a young mother of four only steps from her workplace in Carson, California. Veteran detective Louie Aguilera works hard to find the assailant, but the investigation leads him across international borders.
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#4 - The Colonial Parkway Murders
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/1/2025
After multiple homicides occur along Virginia's Colonial Parkway, Authorities task Det. Danny Plott with finding a serial killer. When investigators uncover a pattern at the crime scenes about the killer's method, it becomes the key to solving the case.
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#7 - Valentine's Day Murder
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/29/2025
A mother of two turns up dead after a house fire - but her autopsy reveals death by strangulation. Lt. Mike Daniewicz must take to the streets of New Jersey's Little India to catch a killer whose desperation is matched only by his heartlessness.
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Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2024
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.
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Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/17/2024
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.
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Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/5/2024
In Minnesota, firemen put out a housefire and find a woman's body inside; Agent Rob Fraik 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.
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#16 - Body Parts
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/6/2022
Det. Flavell is called in to solve his career’s most gruesome and senseless crime after two women from Greenville, South Carolina, find horrifying discoveries on their doorstep, along with ominous death threats and trash bags filled with severed human appendages.
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Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/10/2024
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.
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Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 7/24/2024
A scene straight out of a horror film unfolds outside of 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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#19 - Barn of Horrors
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2025
After someone abducts a vivacious Ohio undergrad in broad daylight, local police join forces with the FBI. The discovery of blood-soaked evidence kicks the case into high gear and brings investigators face-to-face with the depths of human depravity.
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#22 - Run the Wickets
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2022
The former mayor of Potowan Point, Ohio, turns up dead in his hunting cabin. Detective Ryan Allar and his team begin the search to figure out if this is political retaliation or something more personal. What they find hits a little too close to home.
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