There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

We have a weird homicide.

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

A cup of murder.

Crimes against children are always harder to swallow.

On April 25, 1971, an unknown serial killer struck for the first time

and would, by the end of his reign of terror, take the lives of a handful of young girls,

all 18 and younger. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning

cup of murder.

On the evening of April 25, 1971, a 13-year-old girl named Carol Denise Spinks walked to the 7-11

near her Washington, D.C. home to purchase some groceries at the behest of her older sister.

It was just a half a mile away, and just across the border in Maryland.

So she felt comfortable on her journey.

Unfortunately for her and her family, this was the exact evening that a man the media would later call the freeway

Phantom decided to strike for the first time. Abducted on the walk home, young Carol's body was

found six days later, just behind St. Elizabeth's Hospital on the grassy embankment next to the

northbound lanes of I-295. She had been both

physically and sexually assaulted before being strangled to death just a few days before her

body was found. While the community reeled over the loss and while police tried their best to

solve what they thought was a one-off crime. On July 8, 1971,

Darlenea Denise Johnson, just 16 years old, was abducted while en route to her summer job

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