Trailer: Season 3- Unknown Subject

WTOP’s American Nightmare Series

Gamut Podcast Network

True Crime

4.5 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

For 9 years, he terrorized women across the DC region. Breaking into homes and raping his victims before killing a brilliant scientist near the gates of Georgetown University in 1998. And then, it all stopped. Was he dead? Locked up? Before the FBI would name him the infamous Potomac River Rapist, detectives simply called him their “unknown subject” for years. A man whose DNA linked him to multiple crime scenes, but whose name and face remained a mystery to police. For decades, detectives had no idea who he was until a bike cop named Smugs began connecting the dots.

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0:00.0	We were chatting and I just casually looked towards a canal and I saw what I thought was
0:10.4	a mannequin.
0:11.4	I thought, well, if it's near Georgetown, it's probably some kind of fraternity prank.
0:16.4	Walking up to the body, we became apparent that there had been a sexual assault.
0:21.4	On August 2, 1998, the body of a brilliant scientist was found in a wooded area near
0:27.0	the campus of Georgetown University.
0:29.7	For more than six years, DC police had no leads, no suspects, until DNA from the murder
0:36.3	had been matched with DNA found at multiple other crime scenes within miles of the city.
0:42.7	All of it linked to just one man.
0:45.9	For nine years, the unknown subject left a horrible trail of crimes for police to follow,
0:51.3	and then he just stopped.
0:54.6	Ten years go by, then 20, was he in the wind, locked up, dead, and then investigators tried
1:01.2	something new, handing the case to a bike cop named Smokes.
1:06.3	Somebody called into the office about five after five, Michael picked up the phone and they,
1:11.0	I guess they told him, you know, turn on the TV.
1:13.6	You're going to want to see what's on TV and we were shocked.
1:17.2	Um Paul Wagner, host of Unknown Subject, season three of WTOP's award-winning American
1:23.4	Nightmare Podcast series, available October 4th on Apple Spotify or wherever you get
1:30.0	your podcasts.

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