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Inside a Homicide Investigation: The First 48’s Chris Anderson on Catching Killers
09 Feb 2025
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But during that time, I kind of left my wife and all my kids, and I wasn't around like I should have been. I get out to the crime scene, and I'm looking at this vehicle. This vehicle is, say, like a 2004, 2005 BMW. It's lodged up on the side of a wall, and the tires are still engaged because the victim She's been shot inside of her vehicle and she tried to drive away from her attacker.
And he shot one time through the car, strikes her in the back of her head and she died instantly. So she's the car ended up wrecking and it's lodged on the side of a wall. And I'm not spending enough time with my kids. And those were the most important things in my life. Get out to the crime scene and I'm taking down my notes and I'm looking in the car at the victim.
Now they've got everything set up to where I can get close enough to it and take down my notes before they remove the body from the car. And I'm writing down my notes and the guy, I asked the guy, I said, what's her name? And he says, Kayla. And I stopped for a second. You know, her name is what? Kayla. My daughter's name is Kayla.
I am going to be interviewing former homicide detective Chris Anderson. And we're going to talk about some cases and his book and some what he's been doing. And so check out the podcast. I appreciate you coming on. Hey, no problem, man. I appreciate you for having me. So you were on Discovery Channel's, what was the name of the show? The name of the show was Reasonable Doubt. Reasonable Doubt.
And that was for five seasons? Yeah, man, yeah. So yeah, Discovery, yeah, going on to Reasonable Doubt was a huge change in my career. I'm used to investigating homicide cases and working cold cases and things of that nature.
But getting the opportunity to go from, you know, as a homicide investigator in the NBA, featured on First 48, and then going into my old show, Reasonable Doubt, and running it for five years, man, that was, you know, that was a huge change.
It was life-changing for me, actually, to see some of the cases that I've worked, see some of the cases that others have worked, and being able to sit down and really get some people some help. That was one of the best things I've done in my career.
So I'm wondering when you go in and speak with. So you go to reinvestigate a case and you go and do the homicide detectives that had worked the case, like, are they are they OK with that? Are they irritated? Like they feel like, hey, this guy's, you know, looking over my shoulder or double checking my work or. Or are they open to it, like, man, we want the help?
So, yeah, some of the cases I've looked into, they run the gamut of everything they just said. I've run into some cases where some guys have... been very open to having somebody look at another case. I've had some guys that felt like I was looking over their shoulders and they had to critique their work and things of that nature.
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