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I just casually look towards a canal and I thought what I thought was a mannequin.

August 2, 1998 the body of a brilliant young scientist is found dead near the campus of Georgetown University. It was a gruesome scene.

Walking up to the body, it became apparent that there had been a sexual assault.

For more than six years DC police had no leads and no suspects. Then another disturbing discovery. She wasn't his only victim.

As these cases went on the more the victims resisted the more violent he became.

One man committing a series of heinous crimes against women but then he just stops. 10 years go by then 20. What would it take to finally crack the case wide open?

I'm Paul Wagner. Join me for unknown subject season three of WTOP's American Nightmare podcast series available October 4th on all podcast platforms.

I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are the prosecutors.

Today on the prosecutors over a 10 week period an unknown perpetrator proud Texarkana at night attacking eight people in murdering five. Who was the Phantom Killer? The man who haunted the town that dreaded sundale?

Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the prosecutors. I'm Brett and I'm joined as always by my Simpah co-host Alice.

Yes, that's from Audrey. Oh, I have no idea what I'm apparently apparently it's French slang for cool. Oh, I mean, it's simple cool.

Simple cool. I love it. Thank you. And I love the French language. I don't know it. The romance languages are all beautiful. I learned Spanish, of course, because I'm Texas. It's not. I mean, well, I mean the way I speak it is not romantic. Spanish itself is romantic.

The way I speak it is jarring. Yeah, same. I took three years of Spanish in high school and can't speak any of it. So what do you think?

Well, can we just talk about the elephant in the room? This course is October is my most scary.

I'm not scaredy cat month of the year. I just want to crawl under like a blanket and watch Hallmark Christmas movies and not think about all the scary things that come up in October. So you always forced me to do these like really creepy stories.

And I do them because I love you, but they really creep me out. So there we go. There's the elephant in the room that I'm doing this against my will.

I'm sure every year I make you do a whole month of these. This is the this is our third October. Isn't that hard to believe? It actually is. It makes me feel really old because like I just I just feel old. Where is the time? I can't believe how the podcast is. This is like our 150th episode or something.

We should have a birthday party like a podcast as I sit here trying to it's not till May. So I know, but it's like babies first Christmas.

Podcasts for third. Halloween. Exactly. Well, I do love Halloween. I love October. I love everything about Halloween. In this year, we are doing true crime that inspired horror movies.

So as I always tell people those of you who don't like October for reasons that are unclear to me and don't like our October episodes, they're just like the regular episodes except with a little twist on them. Look, I'm not saying I don't like our episodes. I'm just saying they're extra creepy to me and the aura of it being October just makes like the hair on my neck rise up.

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