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Southern Nightmare: The Hunt for the South Side Strangler

Thirty years ago, the South Side Strangler terrorized two Virginia cities. Southern Nightmare tells how detectives brought a serial killer to justice, using DNA for the very first time.

Warning: This podcast is a series podcast

This means episodes are recommended to be heard in order from the very start. Here's the 10 best episodes of the series anyway though!

Ranked #1

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Episode 1: The Empty Car

Episode 1: The Empty Car

Debbie Davis was a quiet, single woman who liked baking cookies and reading mystery novels. What a police patrolman foun... Read more

29 May 2018

30mins

Ranked #2

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Episode 3: Escalation

Episode 3: Escalation

The Cho family immigrated to the U.S. from South Korea in search of the American Dream. Instead they found a Southern Ni... Read more

12 Jun 2018

32mins

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Ranked #3

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Episode 5: a.k.a.

Episode 5: a.k.a.

In the wake of the sadistic rape and bondage strangulation murder of magazine editor Sue Tucker, Arlington County homici... Read more

26 Jun 2018

33mins

Ranked #4

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Episode 4: Her Last Debt

Episode 4: Her Last Debt

On Thanksgiving weekend 1987 a quiet townhouse community in suburban Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C.,... Read more

19 Jun 2018

25mins

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Ranked #5

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Episode 6: The Match

Episode 6: The Match

In January 1988, with the South Side Strangler still at large, Medical College of Virginia lab tech Rena Chapouris didn'... Read more

3 Jul 2018

37mins

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