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descriptions of crime scenes, adult dialogue, and strong language. Viewer discretion is advised. This week, we are going to
talk about a serial killer. I'm using silver clips this time, because last week, you
all thought I was a fairy, so let me use silver, okay? But this week, we're gonna
talk about a serial killer. It's been a while since we've
talked about a serial killer. Buckle in, kitty cats,
because what the ****? Today's story takes
place in April of 1971. The location, Washington, D.C. 13-year-old Carol Spinks,
she was in seventh grade, and she was one of eight siblings, and she also had an identical twin sister. Her and her twin sister, like, no one could ever tell the two apart, and they would constantly
play jokes on other people, like pretending to be the
other sibling, you know? Twins, I don't know what it's like, 'cause I don't have a twin, but
it seems fun, I would think. I don't know, assumptions. But Carol was said to be
a little bit more quiet, and she was like the shy
one out of the bunch. And at the age of 13,
she was pretty petite. She was around four feet tall, and she was just a very small girl for 13. You get it. On Sunday, April 25th,
Carol and her sisters are inside of their home,
they're just playing. Their mother comes in. She comes in, she comes up to them, she's like, "Hey, I'm just
gonna step out really quick. "I'm gonna go visit one of
our relatives down the street. "You guys stay inside the house. "Don't open the door for anyone, "and do not leave the house." And they were like, "Okay," you know. And then the mom leaves, right? Okay, so the kids are just
inside the house playing, and then someone's
knocking at the front door. Knock, knock, knock,
knock, knock, knock, knock. They peek outside and they
see it's their older sister, who no longer lives at
the home, the family home. She's nearby visiting some friends, and one of the sisters
opens up the front door. The sister who was knocking was like, "Hey, can one of you
guys just go to the store "for me really quick? "It will just be like
a quick little favor, "if you could just pick
this thing up for me." And the kids are like, "No, Mom told us "that we can't leave the house. "We're not allowed to go anywhere, so no." So they shut the door
and they go back to doing whatever it was that they
were doing inside the house, but the sister is still outside
at the front door knocking, knocking, just knocking. Then she starts pounding, and
it's gettin' **** annoying. So Carol, she gets up,
she opens up the door, and she's like, "Fine, I'll
go to the store for you. "What is it that you want?" You know? Carol, she ends up doing
this favor for her sister, and she heads out to the 7-Eleven store. Well, first of all, why the
sister just couldn't go herself, we don't know, we don't know. Things we don't know. But the 7-Eleven was just
half a mile from their home, and it was like a pretty easy
walk, so Carol heads out. Now, while Carol is on her walk, she actually runs into her mom, who sees Carol and is super ******. She's like, "Didn't I tell
you not to leave the house? "What are you doing? "Why are you out here?" you know? And Carol explains the situation, and her mom is like, "Okay, I'll watch you "to make sure you get
into the 7-Eleven safe, "but I better see you back at the house, "and don't stop anywhere else." So Carol's mom, she stops
and she watches Carol walk into the 7-Eleven store. And once she gets inside there safe, her mom takes off and does her thing. Back at the home, some
time is going by, okay? Like, 30 minutes go by,
and the siblings are like, "Where the heck is Carol? "It shouldn't take this
long to go to the 7-Eleven. "Where'd she go?" They go outside and they
start asking the neighbors, "Have you seen Carol? We
don't know where she went." Then they go down to the 7-Eleven store, and they're like, "Have you
seen our sister, Carol?" They went in there pretty often, so the cashier, the guy working there, was familiar with the family, whatnot. So the cashier's like,
"Yeah, I just saw her. "She came in, she got some
stuff, and then she left." So they're like, "Okay, maybe
she's back at the house, "or maybe she's back at the house?" So then they go back to the home, and Carol's still not there. She's just, like, nowhere to be seen. And they're kind of getting worried 'cause they know when
their mom comes home, she's gonna be really upset, because what was the one
thing she told them not to do? Leave the house. So some time goes by,
still no sign of Carol, but their mom comes home, and their mom is like, "Where's Carol?" And all the siblings, they
have this look of worry on their face, and they tell their mom that they have no idea where she's at. She hasn't come home. Allenteen is Carol's mom. So she ends up calling the police, and she's going to report Carol missing because, well, she's missing. Now, these ******** police officers, they unfortunately tell her, "Oh, well, Carol probably just ran away." And then that's it. That's the advice they give her. Click. Allenteen knows for sure
there's no way in heck that her daughter ran away, okay? She's like, "There's no way,
Carol would not do that." So she gathers up some of the neighbors to help her look around
the neighborhood for Carol, and they ended up searching
pretty late into the night. And unfortunately, there
just was no sign of Carol. So a neighbor came out and
said that earlier that day, they saw Carol, she was
carrying a bag with her and walking home, it seemed. This means that Carol
was most likely taken on her walk home from the store, or even close to her home, which is scary 'cause it happened right
under everybody's noses. But that's really all the
information anybody had. Six days end up going
by, no sign of Carol. And on May 1st, police
find, on Route I-295, it's like near the rear of
St. Elizabeth's Hospital, they find the body of Carol Spinks. Carol had cuts and
bruises all over her body, and there were signs of strangulation. She was fully dressed, but
her shoes were missing. Homicide detectives, they
have to go to Carol's family. They went to Allenteen and they tell her, "We found Carol's body," and it was just devastating
news to the family. Plus, on top of that,
a lot of the siblings felt a lot of guilt for
letting Carol leave the house in the first place. So a coroner report comes out, and it said that Carol
suffered wounds to her face, neck, and hands. One of the strangest things of all was the fact that there was
food that was undigested in her stomach, so
medical examiners believe that Carol was alive for most of the time that she was missing because
of the food in her stomach. Poor Carol was held hostage
somewhere for a couple of days. So the police are now searching for who this murderer could be, but during this time, in Washington, D.C., there were large protests happening, protests against the Vietnam War. So the capital was taken over with thousands of protestors, rallies. There was just people everywhere. There were hundreds of
people being arrested, to the point that they
no longer had any room to store these people, and they ended up making makeshift camps to arrest the protestors
and hold them there. Every available police
officer in the district was called in for emergency duty to help handle the protestors
and make these arrests. Now, because of this, a
lot of crimes got buried or just put on the backburner because it wasn't their
main priority at the time. So finding Carol's murderer was not top of the list for them, which you'd think is silly because you'd think a murder
would be top of the list, but it wasn't. It got put to the side, which
is extremely frustrating to the family. So then, July 1971, two months after Carol
was abducted and murdered, 16-year-old Darlenia Johnson
was leaving her house and heading out to her summer job at the local recreation center. Darlenia never showed up to work that day. Her mother got a call asking if Darlenia would be showing up, and then that's when she realized that her daughter was missing. Her mother calls the police to file a missing person's report. One witness comes forward and
says that they saw Darlenia in a old black car, and it was driven by an
African-American male shortly after her abduction, but that really doesn't lead to anything. They just thank you for that information, and that's as far as that went. Time passes once again with no answers. This was a little different
because in the following weeks, Darlenia's mother, she got a bunch of random-ass phone calls. Whoever was on the other
end wouldn't say anything. They would just pick up the phone, and then just be breathing all heavily like a creep, you know? Like, (heavy breathing) and then hang up. Like, what a loser. Get
some hobbies, you know? So she was getting these phone calls kind of every so often. I don't know if you've ever
gotten these phone calls, 'cause sometimes I get random phone calls where people just breathe on
the phone, (heavy breathing) so I turn it into a competition. I'm like, "Oh, you're just
gonna breathe on the phone? "Okay, I could play this game." And then I start breathing
all heavily back. (heavy breathing) I end up turning it into a breathe-off, okay? Like, you're not gonna win this game. Not the point of the story. Creepy breathing,
losers, get some hobbies. Anyways, but these calls
would keep happening, okay? So Darlenia's mother
would pick up the phone, someone's breathing. But Darlenia's mother said that she just had this gut feeling that it had to do with her daughter. Either her daughter was on the other line, and she had nothing that
was going to prove that. It was just her gut feeling, but I think it's safe to say you know that when your gut feeling
tells you something... Stupid gut, it's always on point. She tells police this, but again, there's, like, really
nothing they could do. Like, okay, do you have any proof? No, your gut is not your proof. But then she received
one final phone call, which was a man on the
other end, who said, quote, "I killed your daughter." Then hung up. Wait, how did he get the number? Oh, my God, I didn't
even think about that. Was it someone that she knew? I didn't even think about that. So after she gets this
phone call, for good reason, she picks up the phone, calls police, but there was no technology yet that was actually able to
help trace the phone call. And again, there just
really wasn't anything that the investigators could
do with this information. They're like, "Oh, wow,
we'll take note of that." Okay, but then, get this,
'cause this will **** you off. I'm sorry, but it will. Anonymous caller calls
up the police department. This person says that they believed that there was a body alongside the I-295, but for some odd reason, this call just wasn't taken
seriously, and time went on. Then, on July 19th, 1971, an officer spots a body
alongside the road of the I-295. Oh, well, what are the
odds of that, you know? Her body was dressed, but without shoes. There were signs of strangulation, but the body had been in this spot for at least 14 to 15 days in the hot sun, which led to serious decomposition, and investigators were
unable to ID the body based off of their face. Police checked the missing persons report and based off of the report
mentioning the clothing that was worn at the time
of the disappearance, they were able to ID the
victim as Darlenia Johnson. Now, because of this decomposition, they could not fully
determine the cause of death, but it's believed to be strangulation. Now, Darlenia was found 15 feet away from where Carol's body
was found months prior. I mean, it wasn't until
later news came out that an anonymous tip had come
into the police department. It's like they didn't wanna admit that this happened, you know. They dropped the ball on this, obviously, because the only person who would know that the body was here
would be the killer. So it's believed that this anonymous tip came from the killer,
because there's no way you could spot the body just
from driving on the freeway or something, and it's not a spot that you could easily access. It's like a very strange spot, and it was like a very brave
spot to put these bodies, because it's out in the open. It's a busy highway. That anonymous tip that came in was most likely the frickin' killer. It's just so annoying, isn't it? Time and time again, same ******' thing. I don't know why it's
so hard to do your job. July 27th, 1971,
10-year-old Brenda Crockett was asked to go to the grocery store, which was about a half a block
away from the family home. She was given some money
and she headed out. The walk, it wouldn't have
taken that long, okay? It was just a couple of minutes,
but quite some time passes, and when Brenda is gone for over an hour, the family knew something was wrong. So Brenda's mom is getting all worried. Like, "Where the heck is Brenda at?" So she heads out of the house
and starts lookin' for Brenda. While Brenda's mom is out searching, the phone rings back at home. Now, Brenda's younger sister,
who was only about seven at the time, she picks up the phone. Brenda is on the other end. Now, Brenda was crying, and said, quote, "A white man picked me up, "and I'm being sent home in a cab." And then the call just ends. A few minutes later,
the phone rings again. Now, this time, Brenda's
stepfather picks up the phone, and it's Brenda on the other end again. And he's telling her,
like, "Where are you? "I can come get you. Just
tell me where you are." And Brenda said that she thought she was somewhere in Virginia. And then she asked her
stepfather, "Did my mom see me?" And her stepfather is like, "What do you mean did your mom see you? "If she saw you, she
would have gotten you." Then he asked Brenda if the
man can come to the phone and he could talk to him really quick. So then he said that he
hears heavy footsteps in the background, but
then the call just ends. Now, it's believed Brenda had
asked if her mom had saw her because whoever the killer was was trying to get information
if they were spotted or not, but that was just their theory. They don't really know
what she meant by that, but they think that the
killer was telling her to ask that question. So the next morning,
around 5:50 in the morning, a hitchhiker was walkin'
alongside Route 50, near Prince George's County, Maryland. The hitchhiker comes across
10-year-old Brenda's body. Brenda was fully dressed, but
again, her shoes were missing, and she had a scarf which
was knotted around her neck. Now, after this, families in
the area were getting scared, worried, terrified, angry,
believing whoever's doing this is gonna come after them, their kids. And police had no movement on these cases. They had no leads, and there
was a lot of distrust happening between the community and
the police department. The Black community voiced that, "Hey, if these kids were white, "I am sure that there would
be movement happening, "or these cases would be
considered top priority," because during this time, there were a handful of other cases that involved white children that were not treated the same, that were solved within a few minutes. Not a few minutes, I'm
exaggerating, but they were solved. They were making a valid point. Why is there nothing happening on this? But during this time,
there were news reporters who would come into the neighborhood asking everyone a question, trying to figure out what the story was, what happened to these kids. The news, they were reporting on it, and the families felt like this is exactly what the police should be doing because they weren't on
the street asking questions like the reporters were. They were also kind of
unsure of who to trust. "Why should I be talking to a reporter "about what's going on? "I should be telling this to the police." So some time goes by. October 1st, 12-year-old Nenomoshia Yates, she was at home in Northeast Washington. Her father asked her to go to the store, which was only one block away. Look, this is in the '70s. It was normal for kids to go walk to the store by themselves. Yes, the news were reporting. They were reporting on this, but not everybody was
aware of what was going on, 'cause I just know some
of you are gonna be like, "Well, why would you let your kids..." Because it's not like it is today, okay? So her father asked her, you know, "Can you go to the store? "Just grab a couple things for
dinner, thank you so much." So she agrees and heads to the store. Should only take a couple of minutes. She gets there, she gets
the items she needs, and she's seen leaving the
store and she's walkin' home. Unfortunately, between the
store and her walking home, she never made it. And it wasn't even a far walk, so it's just like, whoever this person was was doin' it quick. And then three hours later, in nearby Prince George's County, off of Route 4,
Nenomoshia's Body was found. I don't know what the hell was goin' on. Nobody knows what the hell's goin' on. But same as the others,
she was fully dressed, she was missing her shoes. She also had seemed to be
sexually assaulted and strangled. There was one witness report
who came forward and said that they saw her get
into a blue Volkswagen, but that led nowhere. But also, they found green
fibers on her clothing. People are ******. The media's reporting on these murders and they're puttin' pressure on the police to make some arrests, get
their asses in gear, okay? Because it seemed to everybody that they were not doing their best to try and figure out what
the hell was going on. They still had no answers,
they still had no leads. They had nothing. I mean, they have these green fibers. It's like, do something with it. And on top of that, for
some frickin' weird reason, the police, they were not
connecting all of the murders. They thought it was a separate
person doing these murders. It just was a mess. But there was one news source who believed that it was a single killer, and they dubbed them the Freeway Phantom, because they believed this
killer was using the I-295 as their main way to stalk
and pick up their victims, and then make their escape. The FBI finally steps in. Now, they go through all the evidence from the victim's bodies, and that's when they realize
that all four of the victims had been strangled, they
all had their shoes missing, and then they all had this green fiber that was found on their body. But the FBI was like, "Most
likely, these four murders "were committed by the same person." Whoever this person was was believed to be D.C.'s first serial killer. They haven't had this yet. November 16th, 1971, the body
of 18-year-old Brenda Woodard was found on the freeway ramp of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. Brenda, she was stabbed multiple
times and also strangled. Brenda was fully-dressed,
but unlike the others, she still had her shoes on. I was reading one report that said Brenda actually had
her name written on the shoes, and it's believed that's
why her shoes were still on, because, you know, it could
link whoever the killer was back to her. Something that was also
different with Brenda was that she had a velvet
cloak, no, she didn't, she had a velvet coat
placed over her chest, which was believed to not belong to her. In the front pocket of the coat, there was a handwritten note found in it, which had a message on it, and they believe that this message was written for the police. So this note said, quote, "This is tantamount to my insensitivity "to people, especially women. "I will admit the others
when you catch me if you can. "Freeway Phantom." Now, this note is handwritten, and they're like, "Okay,
what does it mean?" They don't seem to be
the brightest over there. They're like, "Oh, God, look, a note. "What does this mean? Wow, mm, notes." So police, they're like,
"Hey, let's maybe get "a closer look at this note, "and let's do a handwriting comparison "and see if that can lead us somewhere." So they do just that,
and then they realize the note was actually written by Brenda. They compared it to her handwriting. And the note was also written
on her own notebook paper. They thought it was odd because
there was no sign of stress in the handwriting, which, to me, was mind-blowing, 'cause I was like, "You can determine stress in handwriting?" The things you learn,
you know? But they can. So they're looking at the handwriting, and they notice that there's
no shaking in the writing. It was evenly written
and it was very clear, which, to investigators, made them believe that maybe Brenda knew her killer. The word tantamount stood
out to investigators because it's just not a
word you hear people use all too often. No leads, no nothin', but
at least they have this note and tantamount, great. 10 months go by, and they
actually thought that maybe whoever was doing this was gonna stop because 10 months is
obviously a long time. Okay, great, we determined that. September 5th, 1972,
17-year-old Diane Williams went to visit her boyfriend that evening, and to get there, she had
to take the bus and whatnot, so she did that. After hangin' out with him for the night, Diane and her boyfriend,
both of them walked together to the bus stop. They waited for the bus to arrive. Her boyfriend hung out
with her the whole time, watched her get on the bus, it was, like, around 11:30
at night, and headed home. Now, unfortunately, sadly,
Diane never made it home. Sadly, Diane's body was
found, like, a few hours later on Route 1-295, southbound. She was fully dressed,
her shoes were missing, but they did find semen on her
clothing, like on her jeans. Now, originally, investigators assumed, they assumed that the semen
was from her boyfriend, but it was later determined
to not belong to him. Also, on Diane, there was a
small green fiber found on her. Now, they were believing
that this green fiber may have come from, like, inside of a car, but they really weren't sure. So police end up pulling
out their huge file of list of predators
and potential suspects, and they're just hopin' to try and find some kind of connection
to somebody, right? They come across this local gang named the Green Vega Rapists. These people, they hung
around Washington, D.C. and the Maryland area. Now, they were known to kidnap
and rape victims in the area, so they questioned some of
the members individually. So some of the people that
they questioned were like, "There's this inmate over
at the Lorton Prison. "This guy might have some information "regarding the case, you know? "Go talk to him." And then investigators go
out and question this inmate. Now, this inmate agreed to talk to police and give information with two conditions: if they could help him
get a lesser sentence, and if he could remain anonymous. So investigators are
like, "Yes, we'll do that, "because we don't have anything." So they're asking him questions, and he seemed pretty credible. So they're like, "Okay,
we're gonna take this guy out "on a couple of ride-alongs
and see if he knows "where the victims were dumped," and it will kinda test him to
see if he is indeed credible and he's not just making
this up to get out of prison, blah, blah, blah, you know? Now, this inmate, he was able to describe what the victims were wearing
and where they were dumped, but there were some inconsistencies
in this guy's story. He might know what's goin' on, but there's still things
he's not getting right. So they take him out
on another ride-along, it's, like, the second time they're out, and while they're driving,
they're listening to the radio. So during this time, there
was an election going on, and one of the candidates
publicly announced to the press that they had a break in the case, that an inmate from the Lorton Prison had provided information to
help get this case closed. Now, this candidate, he
was mentioning it publicly in hopes to win people's votes because he was harsh on crime
and gonna get this solved, 'cause that's what a
lot of politicians do. They don't necessarily
care about the crime, they care about the numbers,
especially before an election. So they're in the car,
this is on the radio. The inmate hears this.
He starts to freak out. "I asked you if I could be anonymous. "People are gonna figure out it's me. "People are gonna know that I'm the one "who told authorities this information." So after he hears that, he pulls out from his own fear of being outed, and declined further interviews and denied that he ever
provided information to the case in the first place. They just keep dropping the
ball over and over again, because it sounded like
this guy knew who did it or was involved in some
way, and I don't know. But then the police were like, "Nah, he didn't know what
he was talkin' about." And they were kinda downplaying it 'cause they didn't wanna seem
like they dropped the ball. Does that make sense? It's just such a **** show. So many believed that
the Green Vega people, they weren't even
involved in these murders in the first place,
okay, because this guy, his confession, or whatever,
it wasn't consistent. But the Green Vega didn't
come out until 1972, which was after when some of
these crimes had taken place. Maybe they're not involved. I don't know what they're thinking, 'cause it doesn't really
seem like they're thinking, but they're looking at other suspects. So they look for another suspect. They come across
58-year-old Robert Askins, who was a computer technician. Now, Robert over here, yeah,
he had been previously charged with abducting and raping a
24-year-old woman in Washington. So with one of his victims, Robert had the victim write a note, and it was like very similar
to the situation with Brenda, the one with the note. They also discovered that Robert seemed to use the word tantamount pretty often. When investigators went
and asked his colleagues at the National Science Foundation, where Robert was employed, they informed investigators
that Robert used this word, tantamount, pretty often in his speeches. So a search warrant was issued, and documents and stuff
was gathered from his home, but there was no physical
evidence that was found that linked Robert to the crimes. I mean, can you really convict someone just based off of a word? They had nothin' on Robert,
and he was never linked to it. Now, later on in life,
Robert ended up dying in the Federal Correctional
Institution in April of 2010 at the age of 91 because he was arrested, or he was imprisoned for two
D.C. area abductions and rapes in the mid-1970s, but he
denied that he had any role in the Freeway Phantom killings. I don't know, I get so torn 'cause I feel like if
you're already in prison, wouldn't you just confess at that point? What would he have to lose? But then, I mean, that's
not always the case, but it's like why wouldn't you? It just sounds like it
could have been him, okay, because, I don't know, the word? I don't know. They just
got nothin' here, okay? So then there were some other suspects. Their names were Edward
Sullivan and Tommie Simmons. Now, these two bastards were two ex-cops who were arrested for the murder of 14-year-old Angela Barnes. Angela Barnes was originally
thought to be a victim of the Freeway Phantom. Authorities determined that Angela, she was not linked to the serial killer, but it's like a (indistinct) because she was found within the same area as the other victims, and it
was around the same exact time that the other victims were found. So you would think that
she would be considered part of this serial killer, right? I mean, right? Hello? But Angela was found with a gunshot wound, which is, like, why investigators believed that she was not a victim
to the serial killer, because none of the other
victims had gunshot wounds. But the age range, the
location of the victim, the timing, it was very similar. When word came out that the two
ex-cops had murdered Angela, now, this came out into the community, and everyone was like, "See, "this is why we can't
even trust the police, "'cause it's them. "It's them!" Like, who do you trust? Why these two were not
considered to be involved with the other murders is just beyond me. I mean, I guess the
gunshot wound makes sense, but, like, that's it? That excludes them? I just couldn't find a concrete answer as to why they were not connected. I found a lot of assumptions as to why they were not connected, and
I just don't frickin' know. Kinda seems like they
could be, though, right? So over time, this case
ends up going cold. And then in 1987, a new
sergeant came into the district, and she started to just
work on cold cases. So she opens up this one,
she pulls out all the books, pretty much track everything
when it comes to this case. It has lists and lists of just
evidence that they pulled, the dates, what it was, all that stuff. So she opens up the books, and she realized that
a lot of the evidence, 99.9% of the evidence, had been destroyed with dates as to when
the item was destroyed. So you know when they
went to the crime scenes and they picked off the green fibers, the frickin' velvet coat and everything? There was no physical evidence
left in regards to this case. It was all destroyed. You wanna talk about cover-up, mm-kay? Because I think there's somethin' goin' on there, isn't there? Because in order for
evidence to be destroyed, an officer has to prove that
the case is no longer open. The sergeant assumed that because the case had been forgotten, like over so many years,
they must have just assumed that it was closed, and then
they destroyed everything. I bet you after those cops got arrested, I bet you that's when it
was destroyed, I bet you. That was their reasoning
as to why it was destroyed. Great answer. "Oh, yeah, it's just
been sitting here forever "takin' up space, so it must be closed. "Let's destroy it all." So the sergeant, this new
sergeant, she realizes this error, and she's like, "Now I have
to rebuild this whole story." So she calls up the FBI. She's able to get the coroner's
reports about the victims regarding the case. It's not everything, but
I mean, it kinda helps. They go back to the victims' families and they ask for pictures and clothing, items, just things in
hopes to build profiles around the victims. But the families, that's
when they find out everything's been
destroyed, and they're like, "What the **** are you guys doing?" Again, they have no trust in the system because you guys destroyed
all the evidence. The sergeant, she's able
to gather a lot of notes and paperwork regarding the case, and she just tries her
best to rebuild everything. But unfortunately, there's
just no physical evidence any longer, which is a huge loss. And I just feel like that's
not even the proper word, because it's not even a huge loss. It's a tantamount loss,
whatever the hell that word is. It just... So they're re-working on the
case with no physical evidence, and the FBI profilers, they start again, and they're able to build a
profile as to who they think this killer was. They believe that whoever
he was was a psychopath. We probably could all
determine that, but yep. Most likely hated women. They thought that this person had to be between the age of 27 to 32
at the time of the murders, most likely held a day job, and whoever this person
was was overly confident. They were abducting these
victims between six to 10 p.m., when usually, at this
time, everybody was home. They would come home from work, start having dinner and stuff,
kids are playing outside, so it's just not an ideal
time to abduct anybody because the chances of
getting caught is very high. It's very ballsy of them. They believe that it was possible that the killer actually
knew some of the victims, and that they were able
to gain their trust because of how quick it seemed to happen. And then based off of the dump sites, I hate that, dump sites? That's the term that they used. It doesn't sound nice. I don't know, anyways,
based off the dump sites, they were able to
determine that the killer is most likely familiar with the area, and most likely comfortable there as well, which makes them think
that they probably lived in the area, right? Maybe they worked in the area, maybe it was just a
location that was important to this killer. They felt safe enough
to drop people there. So unfortunately, time
passes, still no leads. The new sergeant, who reopened
the case, she retired in 1994 with no closure and no arrests made. To this day, the Freeway Phantom killer still remains a mystery, yep. Law enforcement 100% dropped
the ball on this case by destroying the evidence. Some believe that they just wanted to get rid of this case in general and cover their tracks for not solving who this person was, but I
think that's safe to say, because technology has evolved so much that this crime could have been solved. There was DNA on the victims,
frickin' those fibers, the note, maybe. I mean... (groans) This crime could have
been solved these days, and it's just so unfortunate
that these shitheads destroyed the evidence. They ****** up big time. Prince George County police are
still actively investigating the murders of all six
Freeway Phantom victims. If you have any information, please call Prince George's
County Crime Solvers at 866-411-TIPS, T-I-P-S. Like I said in last week's
video, people like to talk. Us humans, we like to talk. No secret ever stays a secret, you know? Somebody has to know something,
somebody heard something, somebody knows something. Somebody, somebody knows, and if you know, please come forward and call the Prince George's County Crime Solvers. Let these victims' families get some ******* closure, please. Look for the shoes.
Where did the shoes go? Shoes? All the shoes were missing. Where'd they go? The shoes. Someone's gotta know something. I'm sorry to do two
back-to-back unsolved mysteries, but these two were just
heavy on my noggin, last week's and this week's. I was like, "How does this one
go unsolved for this long?" How did they **** up that
bad, the police department? Like, give me a break. Anyways, I would love to hear your guys' thoughts down below. I wonder if this person
is still out there. I wonder if they struck again and we just didn't connect the
dots because for some reason, people don't like to connect dots. I hope you have a good rest of your day. Please make good choices out there. Other than that, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your
day, make good choices. I'll be seeing you guys later! Bye. (dramatic pensive music)
I haven’t listened to this, but I know the case, and I always want to point out to people that the locations where the bodies were found are right along the border between DC and Prince George’s County, MD. At the time, both police forces had reputations for racist behavior. DC’s situation was complicated, as always, by issues of home rule and leadership. None of this excuses the horrible police work, and I agree that the victim’s race was a factor. It’s just more complicated and confusing than people who didn’t know the area and the time might realize.
This was so infuriating because the whole time I kept thinking about how much more the police would have cared and how much harder they would have worked if these had been little white girls going missing. Fuck.
All I can think of to say is, whew. Cases involving every day tasks like running errands, and children, are difficult for me to listen to. But I know Bailey is working on a lot behind the scenes right now, so I’m relieved and grateful for a new video.
Emotions aside, I found this case fascinating. The killer’s signature (missing shoes??? Please explain) and the note especially. I didn’t realise handwriting analysis could reveal so much, even then. Anyway. I also agree with Bailey the police dropped the ball on this one, and if it happened nowadays, I too trust the families would have had the closure they deserve already.