Congress Heights [2]

Monster: Freeway Phantom

iHeartPodcasts and Tenderfoot TV

True Crime

4.2 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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In early July of 1971, multiple drivers reported seeing a dead body just off a freeway in D.C. Only weeks later was the cadaver recovered. Police eventually discovered it was the body of 16-year-old Darlenia Johnson, who had gone missing weeks earlier. The killer had struck again...

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
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0:04.5	You're listening to Freeway Phantom, a production of IHeart Radio, Tenderfoot TV, and Black Bar Mitzvah.
0:10.7	The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcast, author or individuals,
0:17.2	participating in the podcast, and do not represent those of iHeart media,
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0:25.2	This podcast also contains subject matter that may not be suitable for everyone.
0:30.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:36.2	Prior to these killings start happening, this freeway fan, you didn't hear a lot of killings
0:41.9	of black kids per se in the District of Columbia, not like that, that one behind, the other,
0:48.3	behind the other, unresolved.
0:50.6	You didn't hear that.
0:52.5	So the community was in shock and then put them more in caution.
0:56.5	People were scared.
0:57.9	I mean, parents were scared, children were scared.
1:01.1	They wanted to know what more police could do.
1:04.4	What were they doing?
1:05.9	All that conversation was coming up.
1:08.6	People were keeping an eye out on things, anything that may have seen unusual.
1:13.6	People were more visual, I think, during that time because it was hitting close to home,
1:17.6	right in the community. Close, especially over here. I'm Derek Davis. I'm co-owner of Davis-Barbara
1:25.6	Service. I've been here 53 years, right here in the same location.
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