S3 EP 3 - The Case That Wouldn't Break

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

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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0:21.0	only thing that matters. WTOP's American Nightmare Podcast Series, unknown subject, is brought
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0:44.0	the only thing that matters. Previously, in episode 2 of WTOP's American Nightmare Series,
0:57.1	unknown subject, is brought to you by Simply Save Home Security. When I stood up to walk to the
1:02.9	doorway, he jumped into the door with a blanket and threw it over my head and he had sort of hog tied
1:12.4	me, I guess. When I just felt like God said, go, I just broke and he was in the house but I,
1:20.2	you're just in that moment where you don't know what's going to happen. I ran upstairs to the master
1:26.0	bedroom and I opened the window and started yelling out the master bedroom for help. All while he is
1:34.0	still in the house. In the fall of 1991, Montgomery County Maryland detective Joe Madano was investigating
1:45.6	two rapes, months apart that he was fairly certain were connected. Both carried out by the same man
1:52.5	whose frightening behavior was ghoulish, sinister and violent. In the first case, he somehow knew the
1:59.7	woman he was planning to attack was coming home from a business trip and he sat in a chair by a
2:05.4	window waiting inside her house. In the second case, the rapist disguised himself by hiding under a
2:12.4	sheet before throwing it over the head of a terrified 18-year-old babysitter. Then, as if he didn't
2:19.0	have a care in the world or fear of being caught, strolled into the kitchen, taking a can of soda
2:25.0	from the fridge. The rapist seemed to know when he'd find a woman at home alone. That's what was
2:31.3	frustrating about this is the fact that you would break into a house and sit there and wait,
2:36.8	be you already had pre-selected this victim or wasn't a random case.
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