Meet the unstoppable detective conquering cold cases

Detective Matt Hutchinson is an officer in the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety. Sunnyvale is major suburb in the southern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area.

In a unique setting where Sunnyvale DPS officers juggle diverse roles as police officers, firefighters, and EMTs due to staffing constraints, Detective Hutchison stands out as a cold-case champ. Despite a small and often understaffed robbery-homicide department, Hutchison, a family man with a wife and two young sons, has managed to solve an impressive number of cold cases in just three years. His unconventional and out-of-the-box approach has garnered praise, with the deputy district attorney noting that he has surpassed the cold-case-solving achievements of any single detective in the past 15 years.

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Detective Matt Hutchison goes through storage units of cold-case files at the Department of Public Safety in Sunnyvale. Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle