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Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, Brenda Woodard, Diane Williams, Brenda Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates
Carol Spinks, Darlena Johnson, Brenda Crockett, Brenda Woodard, Diane Williams and Nenomoisha Yates, were all victims ofDC's "Freeway Phantom", a serial killer in Washington DC in the 1970s...
The Freeway Phantom has never been caught.
If ever there was an example of institutional racism, this is it. Not that in any way the individuals working the case were racist - in fact by all accounts the individual police were determined and committed to solving this horrendous crime.
Yet, the resources were never devoted to solving it. The FBI was instructed to divert its attention to Watergate. The police department was overwhelmingly white and DC at the time was 70% black; I find it hard to believe that at the top levels there was much motivation to pursue this matter because most evidence has been lost or thrown out.
It is inconceivable that if eight white girls were abducted off a city street, raped and murdered, that the case would be put into the dustbin of history as was done in this instance.
I've asked people who lived in DC at the time and none of them had ever heard of this case. Where was the media at the time? They too are culpable of institutionalized racism for not sticking with this.
There was an article in 2006 in the Washington Post which can be found here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/25/AR2006062501086.html
It is a shocking and discouraging story.
Tips can be sent via text to 50411 or call 202-727-9099.
There is a reward up to $150,000 leading to an arrest and conviction. 
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