S3 EP4 - A Cold Hit

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As the nineties turned into Y2K Detectives Dean Combee and Joe Mudano were still trying to solve their cases. Years of investigating had gotten them nowhere until the FBI called with stunning news. DNA from all of the attacks had been linked to one man. A fact that floored the veteran investigators who never saw it coming.

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0:53.8	Previously, in episode 3 of WTOP's American Nightmare Series, unknown subject.
1:00.4	For several days prior to the incident happening, she was getting the feeling that somebody was coming in her house.
1:07.8	So she's actually in bed. And the next thing she knows, this guy comes bursting.
1:13.2	She heard something on the hallway. And she sat up in bed.
1:17.4	And the next thing she knows, the guy comes bursting into the room.
1:20.2	He would meet violence with violence. So after he realized that she wasn't going to fight him, he stopped trying to injure her.
1:29.6	What's concerning about him is he's very brazen.
1:34.6	And as we learned to go, as we go through these cases, he's breaking into these homes, committing these offenses at probably the highest risk timeframe you could imagine.
1:46.8	And these are early, most of these are early evening hours.
1:50.8	This guy is not wrapped too tight.
1:53.6	He's something pretty scary about him, that he would act like that, but the fact that he's so competent at what he's doing is it would make it even scarier.
2:05.6	In August of 1998, when Christine Marzaya was murdered in Washington, DC's Georgetown neighborhood,
2:12.6	Detective Joe Modano in neighboring Montgomery County, Maryland was at a dead end. Seven rape cases with no suspect, no arrest, no leads.
2:23.6	Since May of 1991, Modano and his team had seemingly used every investigative tool in hopes of catching a man they knew to be a huge risk-taking predator.
2:35.4	They even tried surveillance, deploying undercover officers into neighborhoods similar to the ones the rapist had been haunting.
2:43.4	So they got to the point when you're spread out from almost DC to Damascus, surveillance becomes almost pointless at that time.
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