Serial KillerUnsolved
The Freeway Phantom
Washington, D.C., United StatesApril 25, 1971
Between 1971 and 1972, an unknown killer abducted and murdered six young Black girls in Washington, D.C., leaving their bodies along highways and freeways. At one scene, the killer left a handwritten note on the victim taunting investigators. Despite decades of investigation and multiple suspects, the Freeway Phantom was never identified, making it one of the most haunting unsolved serial murder cases in American history.