Introducing: Freeway Phantom

Murder in Illinois

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True Crime, Society & Culture

3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Hi, Murder in Illinois fans! We're excited about the newest TenderfootTV podcast, Freeway Phantom. Since you enjoyed our show, we think you won't want to miss this important story. You don't have to only take our word for it, though. Check out the trailer to decide if Freeway Phantom is your next true-crime obsession!

Show Description: Between 1971 and 1972, six black girls went missing in the Washington D.C. area. Their bodies were discarded alongside DC freeways. And their killer was never found. The media dubbed him “The Freeway Phantom.” From iHeartRadio and Tenderfoot TV, a new podcast reinvestigates the 50-year-old unsolved murders of these young girls. Journalist and Public Radio veteran Celeste Headlee (NPR, PBS, TEDx) examines old case files and interviews the investigators and family members who are still haunted by these killings. Headlee will ask the questions: Why didn’t these murders make the news headlines? Did law enforcement do enough to solve these crimes? And how do racial disparities impact these types of investigations, past and present? Plus, we’ll explore new evidence which may crack the cold case wide open again.

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0:00.0	This is tantamount to my insensitivity to people, especially women.
0:09.5	I will admit the others when you catch me if you can.
0:14.4	Side, freeway Phantom.
0:17.6	Between April 1971 and September 1972, six young black girls were snatched off the streets
0:23.9	in Washington, D.C.
0:25.6	The homicide detectives turned the cases into little girl cases.
0:30.9	This child was laying on the side of the road.
0:34.3	It appeared that she was probably either dragged out of the car, thrown out of the car.
0:38.9	I was her senior, been my life.
0:41.6	Hold somebody's hand and they look and they have to identify the child.
0:46.4	My brother has never been the same, but none of us are.
0:51.3	They took four murders before the police finally realized that one person was responsible.
0:57.6	This person must have paid attention to newspaper accounts and he saw that they were thinking
1:02.7	that maybe it's just one person and he says, they need to know.
1:06.5	They need to know this is me.
1:08.7	In a note left on one victim, the killer called himself the freeway Phantom.
1:13.2	The killer believes that he may have been seen.
1:16.0	The person said, I murdered your daughter.
1:19.2	That guy is, he's out of sync with even the worst people.
1:23.3	The FBI spent years investigating the case.
1:26.0	I thought that they would catch him.
1:27.8	I thought it was just a matter of time.
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