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American Nightmares

S1 E2 - 22 Hours: Taken Captive

American Nightmares

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.510.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

For the Savopoulos family and Vera Figueroa, May 13, 2015, began like any other Wednesday. Then things went terribly wrong. Through phone records, text messages and eyewitnesses, we recreate the timeline of their last 22 hours. This episode is written and produced by WTOP News reporters Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore. WTOP Digital News Director Julia Ziegler is the content adviser. Visit 22HoursPodcast.com for more insider information on this crime and trial including photos, maps and an interactive blog. "22 Hours: An American Nightmare" is a production of WTOP News in Washington, D.C. All music featured in "22 Hours: An American Nightmare" is licensed through Creative Commons and/or by permission of the artist. We're grateful to all the artists whose music has helped us tell this story. “Haters Hate” by Ramone Messam, used with permission of the artist, and “Call me” and “Rhythmic Pulse” by Daniel Birch licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International.

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.0

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0:21.2

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0:26.2

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0:33.8

Previously on 22 hours, an American nightmare. From which floor is the fire is coming from?

0:39.5

It's coming from.

0:40.3

It looks like it initially from a bedroom,

0:42.2

but it's going sweeping across the whole overhang on the front of the house.

0:45.8

This is a private house, single house?

0:47.5

It's a private mansion.

0:49.2

A suspicious fire has led to a D.C. police investigation

0:52.9

into the deaths of four people found in a sprawling home,

0:56.7

not far from the vice president's residence. It's just hard to imagine that such a nice family

1:02.0

could be the victim of something so depraved. It does make you really think about how bad people

1:07.7

can be. It is being called a major crime scene as homicide investigators examine a house that caught fire in northwest D.C.

1:17.1

The room is a crime dream.

1:20.3

They found four people, including a child, dead inside on the second floor.

1:25.0

Right now it does not appear that this was just a random crime i said

1:28.7

what happened they said we don't know they killed the whole family police have said they believe

1:33.1

more than one person is responsible for the crime a wide-reaching manhunt for darren went stretching

1:38.3

all the way to new york city he had the DNA on a piece across how did his DNA get into that house

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