Unknown Subject

26/02/2025

Virginia Tech hosted a tour showing off the new Innovation Campus, which sits between Potomac Yard Center and the Potomac River in Alexandria.

26/02/2025

Leaders across Europe are scrambling to beef up their defense and intelligence forces after President Donald Trump’s false accusation last week that Ukraine started the war with Russia.

26/02/2025

Brown’s Hardware is closing after serving customers in Falls Church, Virginia, for more than 140 years.

22/12/2022

The bonus episode is available now! Listen here: bit.ly/3BW5dl8

23/11/2022

"Potomac River Ra**st" suspect Giles Warrick, the man at the center of Unknown Subject's season 3, was found dead in his DC Jail cell on Saturday, less than two weeks before his trial for the murder of Christine Mirzayan was scheduled to begin.

While the trial will no longer happen, we do plan to release a follow-up episode after the Thanksgiving holiday with reaction from victims, victims’ family members and others intimately involved in the case.

In the meantime, host Paul Wagner has released a short new episode with a few details on what we know about Warrick’s death.

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

14/11/2022

Paul Wagner, host of the American Nightmare Series: Unknown Subject podcast, spoke with Adam Carolla of the The Adam Carolla Show on PodcastOne. Listen to the show to learn more about how law enforcement uses DNA evidence to solve cold cases: https://adamcarolla.com/jon-reep/

08/11/2022

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?

Find out in the latest episode of WTOP's American Nightmare Series: Unknown Subject podcast. Listen/subscribe: https://americannightmarepodcast.com/episode/s3-ep6-unmasked/

01/11/2022

In the latest episode of the American Nightmare Series: Unknown Subject podcast, learn about a young Montgomery County police officer, named "Smugs," who was handed the case after investigators were tired of waiting for another DNA cold hit.

Listen/subscribe: https://americannightmarepodcast.com/episode/s3-ep-5-going-down-the-rabbit-hole/

25/10/2022

A new American Nightmare Series: Unknown Subject podcast episode is now out. In episode four, learn about how years of investigating got two detectives nowhere until DNA from all of the Potomac River Ra**st attacks linked to one man.

Listen/subscribe: https://americannightmarepodcast.com/episode/s3-ep4-a-cold-hit/

18/10/2022

TW: Sexual violence

In the 1990s, Montgomery Co. Police Detective Joe Mudano knew he had a ruthless ra**st preying on women, but he had no idea who he was. More maddening for him was the fact the Unknown Subject seemed to have inside information. But how?

Listen/subscribe: https://americannightmarepodcast.com/episode/s3-ep-3-the-case-the-wouldnt-break/

14/10/2022

Listen to the harrowing story of a woman, named Kelly, who survived an encounter with the Potomac River Ra**st many years ago. Don't miss the second episode of the American Nightmare Series: Unknown Subject podcast.

Seven years before Christine Mirzayan was murdered in Georgetown, a man cut the phone lines to a house miles outside the city and r***d a teenage baby sitter. T