Bizarre Murder Mysteries- The Final Case

The Psychopath.

Somewhere around the time of 1971 and 1972, a killer known as Phantom murdered, as reports, six young African-American women in and around Washington DC. The women were all between the age of 10 and 18 years old. Some of them were even sexually assaulted before death.

He began his spree in April of 1971 with his first victim Carol Spinks, of the age 13. She reportedly disappeared on her way towards home after buying groceries. Her body was found almost a week later in the grass not far from I-295. Then in July, the killer took 16-year-old Darlenia Johnson as his next victim. She was held there for just over two weeks before the Phantom dumped her body just feet away from where Carol Spinks was found.

The killer next took 10-year-old Brenda Crockett. A few hours after she apparently disappeared, she called home. She said, while crying, that a white man picked her up when she was going home, and then al of a sudden, she ended the call with a "Bye." Brenda again called back and said that she was in a house but once again was yanked off the phone. Unlike the others, she wasn't held. Instead, the killer raped and then strangled the girl to death before dumping her by the side of a Maryland highway.

Nenomoshia Yates was the next victim. She was just 12 and she suffered an almost identical fate to Brenda Crockett, including being found beside the road.

The killer was titled "Freeway Phantom" after Nenomoshia's murder. The Phantom was not done yet. His most bizarre murder was the next one.

He kidnapped Brenda Woodward, an 18-year-old who was last seen getting on a bus to go home. When she was found several hours later, she lay under her own coat. The killer left a note this time, and the police believed that he made Woodward write it. It said,"This is tantamount to my [insensitivity] to people especially women. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can!Freeway Phantom."

Final victim Diane Williams was 17 and she too was abducted after boarding a bus, only to be found strangled and dumped by I-295.

Police then believed Brenda Crockett was forced to lie when she made her haunting phone calls.

A local gang was suspected of some connection to the murders and a prison inmate claimed knowledge then clammed up. In the end, the police files were lost, and all the threads were left dangling. Six girls were found dead by the road at the hands of a psychopath who then vanished into thin air, and the police did not even bother to investigate any further. Real strange, isn't it?