CrimeConversations with Rodie Sanchez
Oct 13, 2021
LIVE EVENT
Retired homicide detective Rodie Sanchez joined our moderator and host Kelly McLear for a CrimeConversation on Wednesday night, and it was an emotional roller-coaster! Sanchez is a CrimeCon favorite and well-known for appearing in Investigation Discovery's "The Killing Fields," about the unsolved Louisiana murder of Eugenie Boisfontaine.
Sanchez, with his slow Cajun drawl, talked about his more than 30 years in law enforcement, his passion for cold cases, his health scares, caring for his elderly parents, and even his ongoing divorce case. Now that he's not working with the department anymore, Sanchez shared that he's moved back to Iberville Parish to spend as much time as he can with his parents, who are both 91. He's had some health challenges himself, but was happy to report that right now he is cancer-free. He said to McLear, "Thank God I'm still here and I wake up every morning still breathing; that's the main thing."
Even though he's glad to be able to rest and spend time with family now, he confessed that he does miss working and said that if ID called him to be in another show, he'd go back in a heartbeat. He's never forgotten about Boisfontaine and her family, with whom he became very close. McLear pointed out that detectives aren't really supposed to get close with victims' families, and Sanchez acknowledged that. But he said that he broke that rule with this case, and explained that
"Eugenie reminded me of Rodie Sanchez."
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