S3 E3 - The Case That Wouldn't Break

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In the early to mid nineties, Montgomery County Police Detective Joe Mudano knew he had a ruthless rapist preying on women but he had no idea who he was. DNA linked a number of cases, but a clear description remained elusive. More maddening for Mudano was the fact the Unknown Subject seemed to have inside information. But how?

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0:48.3	thing that matters. Previously, in episode two of WTOP's American Nightmare series, Unknown Subject,
1:02.5	we know that he cut the phone lines.
1:04.7	When I stood up to walk to the doorway, he jumped into the door with a blanket and threw it over my head and he had sort of
1:15.1	hog tied me, I guess. When I just felt like God said go, I just broke. And I, he was in the
1:22.7	house, but I, you're just in that moment where you don't know what's going to happen. I ran upstairs to the
1:29.2	master bedroom and I opened the window and started yelling out the master bedroom for help,
1:36.2	all while he is still in the house.
1:43.1	In the fall of 1991, Montgomery County Maryland Detective Joe Madano was investigating two rapes,
1:50.5	months apart that he was fairly certain were connected.
1:54.1	Both carried out by the same man whose frightening behavior was ghoulish, sinister, and violent.
2:03.4	In the first case, he somehow knew the woman he was planning to attack was coming home from a business trip, and he sat in a chair by a
2:09.1	window waiting inside her house. In the second case, the rapist disguised himself by hiding
2:15.5	under a sheet before throwing it over the head of a terrified
2:19.0	18-year-old babysitter. Then, as if he didn't have a care in the world or fear of being caught,
2:25.7	strolled into the kitchen, taking a can of soda from the fridge. The rapist seemed to know when he'd
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