S2 E2 - The Investigation

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

As Prince George's County Police detectives investigate the murder of nurse Sherry Crandell, they learn of a witness to the attack. A fact police kept deep in their files for 23 years and are revealing for the first time on this podcast.

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0:00.0	WTOP's American Nightmare Podcast series, unknown subject, is brought to you by SimplySafe.
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0:23.5	Paul Wagner here, host of Season 2 of WTOP's American Nightmare Podcast, I can now tell you that Season 3 is set to debut October 4th.
0:32.5	Enjoy this trailer for Season 3 and stick around after this episode for an exclusive sneak peek at Episode 1.
0:41.5	I just casually look towards a canal and I saw what I thought was a mannequin.
0:47.0	August 2nd, 1998, the body of a brilliant young scientist has found dead near the campus of Georgetown University. It was a gruesome scene.
0:56.0	Walking up to the body, it became apparent that there had been a sexual assault.
1:02.5	For more than six years, DC police had no leads and no suspects. Then another disturbing discovery. She wasn't his only victim.
1:11.5	As these cases went on, the more the victims resisted, the more violent he became.
1:15.5	One man committing a series of heinous crimes against women, but then he just stops. 10 years go by, then 20.
1:23.5	What would it take to finally crack the case wide open?
1:27.5	I'm Paul Wagner. Join me for Unknown Subject. Season 3 of WTOP's American Nightmare Podcast series, available October 4th on all podcast platforms.
1:38.5	Previously on WTOP's American Nightmare series, Murder in a Safe Place.
1:48.5	He said we found Sherry candle in the office dead to see if she had been murdered.
1:58.5	And I could hear a screaming to the phone, screaming and being unconsolable. I just remember just feeling my heart pounding.
2:06.5	I already knew basically that someone was seen strangling her.
2:12.5	There was no one caught.
2:19.5	In the hours after Sherry candle was found raped and strangled inside her small office in January of 1998,
2:26.5	the police were trying to get a handle on the investigation. Were they looking for an intruder who gained access to the Prince George's Hospital Center?
2:35.5	Someone who worked there or could it have been a patient?
2:39.5	Detectives found out across the 40-acre campus looking for witnesses while other investigators tried to piece together a dreadful scene.
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