S3 EP9 - Final Chapter

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

31 years after the Potomac River Rapist attacked his first victim, the detectives who solved the case are telling their story exclusively to WTOP American Nightmare Series Host Paul Wagner.

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0:00.0	WTOP's American Nightmare Podcast series, Unknown Subject, is brought to you by SimplySave.
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0:47.4	The text message SimplySave said, Have you heard?
0:51.0	I was standing in my kitchen having just come back from the gym when a second text came through.
0:57.0	This one said, Do you know anything? I'm not getting any information.
1:02.0	I stood staring at the phone knowing a third text was about to come through.
1:07.0	This one simply said, Giles died.
1:11.0	The sender who wants to remain anonymous had no other information, only that Giles' warwick was found dead in his jail cell at around 8.00.
1:21.0	The sender wanted to know what I knew. It was Saturday morning, November 19.
1:27.0	At that point, I knew nothing, but I knew who to call.
1:32.0	I dialed a few law enforcement sources who confirmed what I had just been told.
1:37.0	Giles' Daniel Warwick, the man suspected of being the Potomac River rapist, the man who had maintained his innocence for three years, and was about to go on trial, died by suicide.
1:50.0	He hanged himself.
1:53.0	So many thoughts went through my mind. Why now? He was paying a private attorney.
1:58.0	Was he worried about an upcoming hearing? The one in which Judge Milton Lee would rule on whether prosecutors would be allowed to tell the jury about the six rape charges he was facing in Montgomery County?
2:11.0	As I stood in my kitchen, I thought about all the people I needed to call. Warwick's death would make news.
2:18.0	So I got on the phone with Julia Ziegler. She's the program director of WTOP News Radio and the manager of this podcast.
2:26.0	And we agreed I would go on the air with the story as soon as I had double checked a few facts. I then called Kelly to see what she knew.
2:34.0	Kelly told me she had just been searching for my phone number and had just gotten off the phone with prosecutors Sharon Donovan and Detective Allison DePoi.
2:42.0	In a few words, she said she was shocked, stunned, and angry.
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