They soon became known as the “Freeway Phantom” murders. The emotional toll on victims’ families was devastating enough. Adding to the grief: tense relations between the police and Southeast DC’s ...

Multiple law enforcement agencies investigated the murders, but jurisdictional disputes and, some believe, racist attitudes allowed the so-called Freeway Phantom to elude police. He has never been ...

Each girl was found murdered and discarded alongside D.C. highways; local media began to call the killer “The Freeway Phantom.” The “Phantom,” Washington D.C.’s first serial killer ...

A new podcast is taking an investigative look at the unsolved murders carried out in the early 1970s by a Washington D.C.-area serial killer known as the Freeway Phantom. The new series from ...