S3 EP 5 - Going Down the Rabbit Hole

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

By 2018, investigators had tired of waiting for another DNA cold hit and decided to hand the case to a cop named 'Smugs.' A young Montgomery County police officer who had already used genealogy to solve several high profile rape and murder cases. Crimes that had stumped detectives for years. Could 'Smugs' be the one to finally give a name to the Unknown Subject?

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0:37.3	Previously, in episode 4 of WTOP's American Nightmare Series, unknown subject.
0:43.5	When you get a murder that's like this, and you have not much of anything to go on,
0:51.1	you do a lot of wheel spin.
0:53.5	Back in the early days of DNA, it took so long, I mean, to get your result.
0:59.9	Code has notified Montgomery County that there was a match to like eight rapes that they had up there.
1:08.0	And so, you know, I contacted Joe Modano.
1:12.7	Do you recall getting the notification that the Marzion murder was connected to your rape cases?
1:19.6	Yeah, yeah, I do. And I was like, shot.
1:24.5	It's a Thursday in June in 2012.
1:28.2	Six months after the FBI joined the search for a serial predator, they were now calling the
1:33.9	Potomac River rapist. Reporters in Washington, DC were told for the first time in years
1:39.7	that DC police had new information in the case.
1:43.5	We were told to meet the police chief not at police headquarters, but on MacArthur Boulevard.
1:47.9	A leafy street in an upscale section of the city near the German embassy, and about a mile from
1:54.4	Canal Road, where Christine Marzion was killed. When I arrived, I recognized a number of high-ranking
2:00.9	police officials, including the two detectives assigned to the case, Todd Williams and Tony Brighadini,
2:07.6	as well as Montgomery County Police Detective Joe Modano. I was also surprised to see John
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