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Hi, guys. Welcome to the American Nightmare series, Megan, with you.

And we have a breaking update in the case featured in season two of the American Nightmare series.

With me now is the host of that season, Paul Wagner, who is a longtime D.C. area reporter

who first covered the murder of Sherry Crandall back in 1998 and then revisited the case in this podcast called Murder in a Safe Place.

Paul's work inspired the FBI genealogy team to keep working at it to find the men who

killed the mother of three. Paul, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, Megan. It's really

a special time to be able to report this news and bring everybody an update on the case and

that it's been closed.

It's been solved.

It's unbelievable.

Let's get right to it.

This week, 27 years after Sherry Crandall was strangled and raped and then killed at the hospital where she worked,

investigators say they now know who's responsible.

And tell us about that, Paul, what they had to say.

They've determined that the man responsible is a man named Edward Watts, otherwise known as

Barry Shabazz. He changed his name after he came out of prison. He was 48 years old.

The police have determined when he killed Sherry. And then he died in 2019

from complications of AIDS, is what I've been told. He was a career criminal, according to

police. He attempted to rape a pregnant woman in Baltimore City in 1972. He was convicted. He was sent to prison. He had numerous

theft convictions, and he had assault convictions. He had a long criminal record. And unfortunately,

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