No Lt. Kinderman
I'm looking at the cast line up and I don't see a Kinderman character listed to investigate the murders, unless IMDb plans to list this character later. But that's a key difference from the '73 story
shareThis series takes place after the movies. Kinderman is probably dead by now, unless he had a kid that joined the police department.
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