S4 E3 - The Money Drop: A Second Look

American Nightmares

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 64 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 talks with Jordan Wallace, the man who initially fell under suspicion and was later cleared of the crime. Jordan was Sava Savopoulos' assistant. Jordan shares his thoughts and memories of the crime and give an update to where he is now.

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Original Episode

Hours after the victims are taken hostage, a ransom is delivered to the mansion on Woodland Drive. But it doesn’t save the victims -- the calls, text messages and voicemails end, leaving key parts of the timeline unexplained. But after the trial, a new theory emerges explaining how the killer got inside the house. This episode is written and produced by WTOP reporters Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore. Julia Ziegler is the content adviser.

All music featured in "22 Hours: An American Nightmare" is licensed through Creative Commons and/or by permission of the artist. We're grateful to all the artists whose music has helped us tell this story. “Haters Hate” by Ramone Messam, used with permission of the artist; “Call me” and “Rhythmic Pulse” by Daniel Birch, as well as “Weirder” by Drake Stafford, all licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); and "Beyond the Lows" by The Whole Other, available in the YouTube Audio Library.

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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 killing of three members of the Savopoulos family and their housekeeper.
0:10.0	You'll find new content at the end of this episode about the man who initially fell under suspicion and was later cleared, Sava's assistant, Jordan Wallace.
0:19.7	We speak with Jordan about where he is now,
0:22.2	and he shares his thoughts on the crime.
0:27.1	Previously, on 22 hours, an American nightmare.
0:30.2	When I heard that this had happened,
0:32.7	the first thing I said to my husband when he called me was,
0:35.9	oh my God, I saw Amy yesterday. I saw her.
0:39.9	Okay, Jack, let's talk about how we put this timeline together. This is all from court testimony.
0:44.9	And some other kinds of evidence like cell phone records. Hey, Nellie, it's Sava. I hope you get this
0:50.6	message. Amy is in bed sick tonight.
0:55.0	It is being called a major crime scene as homicide investigators examine a house that caught fire in northwest D.C.
1:03.0	The room is a crime scene.
1:07.0	They found four people including a child dead inside on the second floor. now, it does not appear that this was just a random crime. I said, but 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. We had the DNA on a piece across
1:27.6	how did his DNA get into that house. Got a package that I'm going to need you to bring down to me.
1:33.4	To do what he did to four people, including a 10-year-old boy, is just beyond words. They were brutalized,
1:39.7	and we saw the evidence of that. The jury has just reached a verdict in the murder trial of Darren Wint.
1:45.7	He was going to strike the American dream just by committing murder and may not.
1:50.3	This is 22 hours, an American nightmare.
1:54.2	A quick note before we start.
1:56.3	If you haven't listened to episodes one or two yet, stop, go back, and listen to those first. This episode
2:02.3	will make a lot more sense if you do. And a heads up, this episode contains some explicit
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