The Mystery of The Freeway Phantom

50 years later, the identity of the serial killer who targeted black women is still unknown.

The reward poster asking for information on the Freeway Phantom killings (Source: Washington DC Metropolitan Police)

In the early 1970s in the Washington DC area of the USA, a killer had begun abducting and murdering girls and young women off the streets. They were all African-American, all deemed ‘low-risk’, and the way in which they were slain suggested a serial…