Every week I cover unsolved cold cases from a new state. In season 1 I chose states at random and in season 2 I'll be going alphabetically. I am just loading the weekly episodes in podcast form and wanted to start with some episodes from season 1 while I work on getting Season 2 loaded into podcast format.

Today I'll be covering the Victims of the Freeway Phantom from Washington, DC.

Between April 1971 and September 1972, a man was hunting the neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., brazenly abducting, raping, and murdering young black girls and leaving their bodies to be found around the city taunting investigators and terrorizing the community.

This case encompasses more than I could ever cover in this weekly series, but when DC came up, I knew I had to take this chance to highlight the young girls whose live ...