Episode 40: From April 1971 to September 1972 six young African American girls were abducted from their neighborhoods in Washington, DC and murdered. Their bodies were found in both the District of Columbia and in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The suspect in these murders has been called “The Freeway Phantom” by the media but has never been identified. Who was D.C’s first serial killer?

https://mpdc.dc.gov/publication/%E2%80%9Cfreeway-phantom%E2%80%9D-homicide-victims

https://library.georgetown.edu/exhibition/most-influential-protest-you%E2%80%99ve-never-heard-may-day-1971

https://boundarystones.weta.org/2025/05/27/gruesome-murder-spree-freeway-phantom-dcs-first-serial-killer

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/06/26/freeway-phantom-slayings-haunt-police-families-span-classbankheadsix-young-dc-females-vanished-in-the-70sspan/08789f47-3d0e-4a88-ad24-cdbcc493698f/

https://freeway-phantom.com/cases/diane-denise-williams/

https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/tag/freeway-phantom/

https://uncovered.com/cases/brenda-crockett-washington-dc

https://uncovered.com/cases/nenomoshia-yates-washington-dc

https://uncovered.com/cases/brenda-woodard-washington-dc

https://uncovered.com/cases/diane-williams-washington-dc