Episodes

  • Returning Sept. 2nd - 22 Hours: A Second Look
    Aug 19 2025

    Host Megan Cloherty returns for a new season of American Nightmares. In the upcoming season, we revisit the story that launched the series: a D.C. power couple, their 10-year-old son, and their housekeeper—held hostage for nearly 24 hours before being murdered inside their own home.

    Now, 10 years after the crime and 6 years since we first told the story, Season 1 returns with all-new content, fresh interviews, and exclusive updates that shed new light on a case that still resonates today.

    New episodes drop September 2nd

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    4 mins
  • S1 E14 - Appeal Denied
    Dec 19 2022

    The D.C. Court of Appeals has denied Daron Wint a retrial in his quadruple murder conviction. Hosts Megan Cloherty and Jack Moore sit down to talk about the three-judge panel's decision.

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    11 mins
  • S3 E9 - Final Chapter
    Dec 18 2022

    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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    47 mins
  • S3 E8 - Breaking News
    Nov 22 2022

    Host Paul Wagner brings listeners a huge update about Giles Warrick that changes the course of...everything.

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    3 mins
  • S3 E7 - Consciousness of Guilt
    Nov 15 2022

    When Giles Warrick is questioned by police in the hours after his arrest, the 60-year-old tells them he doesn't know how his DNA turned up at 10 different crime scenes in DC and Maryland. But, what will police find when they search his South Carolina home?

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    56 mins
  • S3 E6 - Unmasked
    Nov 8 2022

    In November 2019, detectives from Montgomery County, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., make their way to Conway, South Carolina, where investigators are certain they will find their "unknown subject." They head to a ranch house on a rural country road where a 60-year-old man is living with his girlfriend. But, what will they find when they knock on the door?

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    42 mins
  • S3 E5 - Going Down the Rabbit Hole
    Nov 1 2022

    By 2018, investigators had tired of waiting for another DNA cold hit and decided to hand the case to a cop named 'Smugs.' A young Montgomery County police officer who had already used genealogy to solve several high profile rape and murder cases. Crimes that had stumped detectives for years. Could 'Smugs' be the one to finally give a name to the Unknown Subject?

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    44 mins
  • S3 E4 - A Cold Hit
    Oct 25 2022

    As the nineties turned into Y2K Detectives Dean Combee and Joe Mudano were still trying to solve their cases. Years of investigating had gotten them nowhere until the FBI called with stunning news. DNA from all of the attacks had been linked to one man. A fact that floored the veteran investigators who never saw it coming.

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    46 mins