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Darlenia Johnson

Case from Washington, DC dated Jul 19, 1971

Victim Details

Darlenia Johnson

November 7, 2023

Female

African-American / Black

Washington

DC

1971-07-19

1971-07-08

1971-07-19

16

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Darlenia Johnson

Darlenia

Johnson

Victim

06/20/2026


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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 ...
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  • Major Case/Unsolved Homicides - 1971-1990 | mpdc - DC.gov
  • 'Freeway Phantom' Killings Haunt D.C.-Area Families Decades Later
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