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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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This is 22 Hours: A Second Look, where we revisit our original season with host Megan Cloherty. In this episode, you'll hear what happened when Megan reached out to Daron Wint in prison. You'll learn just how many prisons he's been transferred to in the last 10 years, why he filed suit while he was inside, and what it takes to communicate with a prisoner in a federal penitentiary.
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Original Episode
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After Daron Wint’s conviction, federal prosecutors press the judge for the harshest possible sentence and, for the first time reveal his history of explosive rage, violent threats and assaults. At Daron’s sentencing, emotional statements from the two surviving Savopoulos daughters are read in court. As the last regular episode comes to a close, we reflect back.
This episode is written and produced by reporters Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore. Julia Ziegler is the content adviser.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Mike King from the podcast Profiling Evil, a place where true crime meets behavioral science. |
| 0:08.9 | I spent my career investigating serial predators and studying the psychology behind them. |
| 0:16.1 | Here we don't just talk about what criminals did. |
| 0:19.3 | We explore why they do what they do. We expose |
| 0:23.1 | manipulation and control. Look at how offenders select their victims and uncover the ways that |
| 0:29.3 | they try to avoid detection. You can find profiling evil on your favorite podcast platform. |
| 0:37.3 | This is 22 hours, a second look. |
| 0:40.6 | At the end of this episode, you'll hear what happened |
| 0:43.1 | when I reached out to Darren Wint in prison. |
| 0:46.5 | You'll learn just how many prisons he's been transferred to |
| 0:49.7 | in the last 10 years, why he filed suit when he was inside, |
| 0:56.1 | and what it takes to communicate with a prisoner in a federal penitentiary. Before we start the episode, I want to speak a little about |
| 1:02.0 | Vera. I've spent hours trying to find and reach out to her family, specifically her children. |
| 1:08.8 | After the trial, a reporter at the Washington Post spoke with her son, |
| 1:12.5 | who was living in Guatemala at the time. But I've been unable to successfully contact either her |
| 1:17.7 | son, daughter, or Bernardo's daughter, Claudia, about this re-release. Nellie started an online |
| 1:24.8 | fundraiser shortly after the murders to allow Vera's children to bring her body back to her native El Salvador. |
| 1:31.3 | It raised nearly $20,000. |
| 1:34.8 | Vera's husband, Bernardo, also left the U.S. for El Salvador. |
| 1:39.2 | Unfortunately, Nellie says that he died there during the pandemic. |
| 1:44.0 | I wish I could relay more detail about Vera's family and how they're doing 10 years later. |
| 1:50.1 | I know from Claudia's testimony alone that Darren Wynne's actions sent ripples of loss and grief through her family as well, and I wish I could have spoken to them. |
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