The community pressures the police in cases of murdered African American girls whose perpetrator, the Phantom of the Freeway, has never been identified or caught.
The podcast delves into the case of the Freeway Phantom, a serial killer who operated in Washington DC in the 1970s and whose victims were mostly young, black girls. The police had long suspected that they were actually looking for a black man in his early 20s, but due to false leads and other factors, the case remained unsolved for decades.
The use of taunting notes and the name given by the killer, the Freeway Phantom, suggests that there may have been a single narcissistic killer responsible for the murders of young girls in Washington DC in the 1970s.