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American Nightmares

S4 E2 - Taken Captive: A Second Look

American Nightmares

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.510.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

This is 22 Hours: A Second Look, where we revisit our original season with original host Megan Cloherty. In this episode, Megan explores what happened to the Savopoulos' mansion. She talks to the private buyer that bought the land and steps foot in the new multi-million dollar home that sits where the Savoupolus home once stood.

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Original Episode

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For the Savopoulos family and Vera Figueroa, May 13, 2015, began like any other Wednesday. Then things went terribly wrong. Through phone records, text messages and eyewitnesses, we recreate the timeline of their last 22 hours. This episode is written and produced by WTOP News reporters Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore. WTOP Digital News Director Julia Ziegler is the content adviser.New content written, gathered and produced by Megan Cloherty.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is 22 hours a second look, the re-release of our award-winning podcast 10 years after the

0:06.3

killing of Philip Savopoulos, his parents, Amy and Sava, and Vera Figueroa. You'll find new content

0:12.9

at the end of this episode about what became of the Savopoulos' mansion, after it partially burned down.

0:19.5

I speak to the man who spent millions to build something

0:22.5

new for his family, knowing what happened there. And we tour the $6 million home he's now

0:28.3

selling without ever moving in, how it's now listed under a different address. That's coming up

0:34.4

after the episode.

0:41.9

Previously, on 22 hours, an American nightmare.

0:44.4

From which floor is the far is coming from?

0:45.5

It's coming from.

0:47.2

It looks like it initially from a bedroom,

0:50.7

but it's going sweeping across the whole overhang on the front of the house.

0:52.5

This is a private house, single house?

0:54.3

It's a private mansion.

1:00.4

A suspicious fire has led to a D.C. police investigation into the deaths of four people found in a sprawling home, not far from the vice president's residence.

1:03.9

It's just hard to imagine that such a nice family could be the victim of something so

1:08.7

depraved. It does make you really think about how bad people can be.

1:14.2

It is being called a major crime scene as homicide investigators examine a house that caught fire in northwest D.C.

1:22.3

The room is a crime scene.

1:25.5

They found four people, including a child, dead inside on the second floor. Right now, it does not appear that this was just a random crime. I said, by what happened? They said we don't know. They killed the whole family. Police have said they believe more than one person is responsible for the crime. A wide-reaching manhunt for Darren Wint stretching all the way to New York City.

1:45.0

We had the DNA on a piece across. How did his DNA get into that house?

1:49.0

Got a package that I'm going to need you to bring down to me.

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