A veteran of 30-plus years of solving cold cases is taking his investigations from the squad room to the stage.
Joe Kennedy, special agent for the Carolinas field office of Naval Criminal Investigative Service, or NCIS, hosts “ Cold Case Live ,” whose first tour stops at the Orpheum Theatre this weekend.
Even though it’s produced and presented by an entertainment company, Kennedy said, “we are actually hoping to solve some cases and bring an end to the epidemic problem of cold cases in the United States.”
“It’s really hard to solve a cold case,” Kennedy said from a hotel room in Anaheim, before the start of the tour. “We go through some of the investigative steps: what we’re looking for as cold case detectives, how we get into the mind of the offender, how we’re able to read crime scenes for behavioral clues.”
The program is not only intended to showcase some of the best-known unsolved cases, including the Zodiac Killer, Golden State Killer and JonBenét Ramsey’s murder, but provide information about how cases are solved.