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This episode of Unknown Subject is brought to you by Simply Save. Previously, in episode

5 of WTOP's American Nightmare series, Unknown Subject, I don't care if you found God

and a good woman. This guy has some sick impulses. I was going to call my buddy in co-case at

midnight and I was like, nah, he's probably asleep.

Because you're excited at this point. I'm excited at this point. I'm like, I think I got

something, but you know, I don't know. I haven't been doing this all that long. Some of the

stuff to find is really difficult to find and sometimes I think I got somebody up there

pointing me in the right direction.

I can see your emotional about it.

Since November 12, 2019, a small South Carolina city not far from Murdle Beach. A couple

of detectives from Washington, D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland, are working the case that

has taken them far outside their rig at a jurisdiction. The search for the serial rapist,

the FBI, had dubbed the Potomac River Rapist.

The detectives that day were following a lead from Officer Steve Smuggoreski, or Smugs

as he's known, who I told you about in the last episode. The officer with a talent for

using genealogy to close cold cases. His work led them to a modest ranch house on Oak,

Log, Lake Road in Conway, South Carolina, where the detectives believed they would find

their unknown subject.

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