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Do you know who committed the \Freeway Phantom\ murders from 1971-1972?
In the summer of 1971, a shadow lingered over the community of Congress Heights in Washington, D.C. Sixteen-year-old Darlenia Johnson, an African-American girl, was working a summer job at the Oxon Run Recreational Center. On the morning of July 8th, she left for work but never arrived. Her family, gripped with worry, reported her missing the next day, setting in motion a search that would end in heartbreak and deepen the fear that a predator was stalking the city's young women. For eleven agoni ...Read More
In the summer of 1971, a shadow lingered over the community of Congress Heights in Washington, D.C. Sixteen-year-old Darlenia Johnson, an African-American girl, was working a summer job at the Oxon Run Recreational Center. On the morning of July 8th, she left for work but never arrived. Her family, gripped with worry, reported her missing the next day, setting in motion a search that would end in heartbreak and deepen the fear that a predator was stalking the city's young women. For eleven agoni ...Read More
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Darlenia Johnson
November 7, 2023
Female
African-American / Black
Washington
DC
1971-07-19
1971-07-08
1971-07-19
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Darlenia Johnson
Darlenia
Johnson
Victim
11/16/2025
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I've been thinking deeply about the unimaginable pain Darlenia Johnson's family must have endured ov... ...Read More
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