The Freeway Phantom — Washington D.C.'s Unsolved Child Murders

Between 1971 and 1972, six young Black girls aged 10 to 18 were murdered in Washington D.C. and their bodies deposited along interstate highways. The killer appeared to have sexually assaulted the victims before killing them, and in one case left a taunting note written on a bag near the body, signed "The Freeway Phantom." Despite a massive investigation involving the FBI, Metropolitan Police, and multiple task forces, the perpetrator was never identified. A prime suspect — Raymond Seat — died in 1977 in an unrelated police shooting. The Freeway Phantom case remains one of Washington D.C.'s oldest and most prominent unsolved serial murder investigations.