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Going West: True Crime

The Freeway Phantom // 496

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Between April of 1971 and September of 1972, six girls, between the ages of 10 and 18, were abducted from Washington DC and found murdered. After some of their abductions, he would call the families or those close to the case breathing heavily, or giving crude messages. Then, left behind in one of the victims’ pockets was a note from the killer, taunting the police by saying, “Catch me if you can,” followed by a terrifying name he gave himself. This is the story of the Freeway Phantom.

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Teeth and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.6

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:22.4

Hope you had a great weekend. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We have a serial killer case from the 70s.

0:29.6

When we started diving into this one, I almost thought we covered it before because there are certain elements of this case that are kind of reminiscent of another one that we

0:38.0

covered in, this actually happened in New York, the one I'm talking about. But today's case is

0:43.2

Washington, D.C., and this has so many creepy twists. There's a scary letter involved. There's

0:48.3

phone calls. I mean, this story is truly baffling. Yes, this case is just entirely frustrating.

0:56.1

It really feels like this entire case was just fumbled by the police.

1:00.4

And still today, they're trying to find answers for this string of murders that took place.

1:06.8

And it really feels like it should be solved.

1:09.8

You guys are going to be so pissed off.

1:12.7

So without further ado, let's dive right in.

1:15.3

All right, guys.

1:15.9

This is episode 496 of going west, so let's get into it. Thank you. I'm going to

1:29.3

I'm

1:31.3

a

1:32.3

I'm

1:33.3

I'm

1:35.3

I'm Between April of 1971 and September of 1972,

1:58.5

six girls between the ages of 10 and 18 were abducted from Washington, D.C. and found

2:05.8

murdered. After some of the disappearances, the killer would call the families or those close to the case breathing heavily or giving crude messages.

2:19.1

Then, left behind in one of the victim's pockets was a note from the killer, taunting the

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