Washington D.C. April 25, 1971. 13-year-old Carol Spinks purchased TV dinners and bread from the 7-Eleven, as she had been asked by her older sister, then began walking the half-mile home. But she never made it. Six days later, Carol's body was found discarded on the side of the freeway. Carol's murder was horrifying, but little did D.C. investigators know, the terror was only just beginning. Between May 1971 and September 1972, the bodies of six African American girls would be found along the side of the freeway. The killer, who is to this day known only by the moniker "The Freeway Phantom", was never apprehended. 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of five of six Freeway Phantom murders.

Blog post: The Freeway Phantom Murders - You can see photos here, including the handwritten note I refer to in the episode.

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Sources for this episode:

The Washington Post piece I referred to at the beginning of the episode: Six black girls were brutally murdered in the early ’70s. Why was this case never solved?

'Freeway Phantom' Slayings Haunt Police, Families Six Young D.C. Females Vanished in the '70s

D.C. Jury Convicts Man Accused in Green Vega Rapes

Opinion: Would the Freeway Phantom case already be solved if the victims weren’t black?

Freeway Phantom

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