Case 121: The Freeway Phantom

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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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    Inside the pocket of her coat was a piece of white notebook paper with a handwritten message that read: “This is tantamount to my insensitivity to people, especially women. I will admit the others when you catch me if you can.” The note was signed, the “Freeway Phantom.”
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Комментарии • 116

  • @AMYV3
    @AMYV3 5 лет назад +27

    Thank you. Best crime channel ever !! Best story telling

  • @richardblades6246
    @richardblades6246 5 лет назад +18

    Love these Saturday (UK) deliveries 📦 🚚 of Casefile. Thank you!

  • @theresag1969
    @theresag1969 5 лет назад +66

    I saw the title "The Freeway Phantom" and cried. Little black girls being abused or murdered doesn't usually garner local attention. No one cares much about little black girls except for black woman. To have CaseFile bring this case to international attention in the hopes of solving this case is a God sent for lost little black girls and black women everywhere.
    Simply thank you.

    • @adamcairns2434
      @adamcairns2434 5 лет назад +17

      1969Vanessa G "no one cares about little black girls except for black women"????
      Do you truly believe that absolute garbage??
      If you truly cared about little black girls you wouldn't be sending out such a negative message to them just to satisfy your need to play the victim. Hypocrite.

    • @Vampybattie
      @Vampybattie 5 лет назад +7

      @@adamcairns2434 I mean it true when black girls go missing it doesn't get many wide attention unlike white girls do , there's something called white women syndrome where white women when they go missing or end up being killed get more attention from police and media then males and minorities

    • @adamcairns2434
      @adamcairns2434 5 лет назад +2

      Tryshita Pytoshit I think if we're being fair, it's more to do with socio economic background than just simply skin colour. Sadly, you are right in a way. The MEDIA make a bigger deal out of it. The media are the biggest bunch of heartless, soulless scum on the planet. To say the police have the same attitude these days is a slap in the face to all the good police out there.
      Having said that, your comment was much more rational than the original comment.

    • @nataliethomas4338
      @nataliethomas4338 5 лет назад +2

      @@adamcairns2434 I think the point being made is that typically missing children cases get more press coverage if they're from affluent areas. And this is even more true of 'white' children. Its a sad but well documented fact.

    • @onlypimpseattacoswiththeir3017
      @onlypimpseattacoswiththeir3017 4 года назад +3

      That's a whole bunch of bullshit

  • @billie6814
    @billie6814 2 года назад +23

    Myyyy god it's frustrating that the cops just drove by and didn't look for the body properly after it was seen there and reported.

  • @Sirenmoonbee
    @Sirenmoonbee 5 лет назад +6

    Best bit about weekends xx

  • @CommanderWicked
    @CommanderWicked 5 лет назад +5

    Great as always guys!

  • @natalieh4354
    @natalieh4354 Год назад +3

    Why the hell didn't Carol's mum do shopping trip with her once she found her outside... FFS this drives me crazy... But I know Carol's Mumma would be thinking about that for the rest of her life ... Heartbreaking 😢

    • @outlawJosieFox
      @outlawJosieFox Год назад +8

      Things were just different back then. Many of us went to the shops unaccompanied at that age and played in local parks for hours without parents knowing exactly where you were. True crime was not nearly as comprehensibly covered as it is now and so you may well never have heard of any kind of serial killer case unless it was on your doorstep. Most people did not have a home phone nor a car. The goddess only knows how any of us survived the 70s and 80s.

    • @andrewmckeown6786
      @andrewmckeown6786 Год назад +7

      Agreed. The thing I heard most growing up was "get out of this house and go do something outside".
      Very, very, very, different times

    • @carolball5764
      @carolball5764 9 дней назад

      @@andrewmckeown6786As a 10 year old back in 1971 I was being abused by my father .. I also had the responsibility of looking after 4 younger siblings , and we were made to go out and play , not just outside our home but to the local parks , basically out of his sight . Don’t come back until lunch time he’d bark , then as soon as lunch was eaten , back out and don’t come back until tea time .. . If it wasn’t a school day this would be how it was . Awfully abusive and depressing upbringing .

  • @studlynesss
    @studlynesss 9 месяцев назад +1

    How in TF is this still unsolved?

    • @michellesartori6695
      @michellesartori6695 9 месяцев назад

      I believe that the 3 Police Departments that have jurisdiction over their county's evidence should pick someone from each Detective team, hopefully someone who at least KNOWS of the case, and they agree to come clean about the evidence or potential evidence they each have. They need to see each other as colleagues, NOT the opposition! I would suggest a night out at a local steak restaurant and bar and look at finding similarities between each of them and then if they want to talk shop then talk shop. For this I'd find a quite nook somewhere or perhaps someone will open up THEIR home for more after dinner drinks until the distrust goes and you have a cohesive group of cops who might just try and solve a Cold Case! If this isn't successful, send your evidence to the Vidoc Society, and maybe they'll take a shot at it. Finally, check every other genetic test bank and see what you find there! I have no further examples to share, but wasn't there a pool of money mentioned previously for $9K? You HAVE what you need to solve these cases, so start from the beginning! It's already the boxes!

  • @kyliegray9418
    @kyliegray9418 4 года назад +7

    Ok so I just listened to this for an 1hr 20mins for it not to be solved 😫
    I do love your series though!

    • @Jolenesmart1980
      @Jolenesmart1980 3 года назад

      Surprised you not heard of it , I’m a huge true crime but though so I already knew it hadn’t been solved

  • @anitaholst7671
    @anitaholst7671 Год назад

    So heartbreaking!

  • @leyla2210
    @leyla2210 2 года назад

    I look forward to your return in February 🙏😊

  • @clickityclackity75
    @clickityclackity75 Год назад +1

    He probably just moved from one parish, to another .

  • @DickDickstein
    @DickDickstein 3 года назад +12

    Let me get this straight...there were about 30 escaped mental patients, that were all there because they had committed violent crimes, and the cops found ALL of them right away trying to find a suspect in the other case?
    Seems like those escapees would have been something they would have pursued when they happened don't you think? This sounds like they basically didn't bother recapturing them until someone figured there might be a lead in this case.

    • @RandaWise
      @RandaWise Год назад +4

      Yep! You hit the nail right on the head. And by the way, it was very easy to escape from Saint Elizabeth's Hospital back then - that is, until Hinkley was taken there after an attempt on Reagan's life.

    • @natalieh4354
      @natalieh4354 Год назад

      My thoughts exactly

  • @Smiles2U4Ever
    @Smiles2U4Ever 4 года назад +2

    This guy's voice is monotonous and he's obviously reading from a script. I became bored within 2 minutes.

    • @FatCatLuna
      @FatCatLuna 4 года назад

      I agree.

    • @kriziaeverett4461
      @kriziaeverett4461 4 года назад +24

      did you expect him to have this whole segment memorized?? lmfaoooo you go do that first and then come back and complain lolll

    • @FatCatLuna
      @FatCatLuna 4 года назад

      @@kriziaeverett4461 he can read off a script and not be so monotone and boring lol.

    • @calamityj3634
      @calamityj3634 4 года назад +23

      Smiles2U4Ever it’s the stories themselves that hold the listeners attention . No drama queen pyrotechnics here just clear detailed respectful research. There are other channels you can choose from. Enjoy

    • @hydras5947
      @hydras5947 4 года назад +22

      not everybody needs constant yelling and sound effects to keep them interested

  • @migspit
    @migspit 3 года назад +17

    Excellent rundown of a sadly overlooked case

  • @Trund27
    @Trund27 2 года назад +15

    How can evidence and files be treated so shabbily??? That’s a huge police fail right there.

    • @b.freeman2118
      @b.freeman2118 Год назад +4

      Maybe cause cause they were black’

    • @marionhope7506
      @marionhope7506 Год назад +1

      …Or maybe, it’s because the evidence led to a Caucasian killer. Notice how one of the victims explicitly told a family member that she was with a white man heading to Virginia? Not to mention, one victim was found with a white person’s hair on her body?
      Ineptitude on the part of the police made them assume that the killer was black and ZERO effort was given to follow up on the clues that a white man (possibly a cop) could be responsible for the deaths.
      I believe racial bias is what caused the evidence to be missing and mishandled initially. But I believe that the DNA evidence pointed to a white offender, which would have resulted in an embarrassment to the investigating department. So it is being suppressed. Also because the identity of the white man proves that he was in law enforcement.

    • @andysmith5997
      @andysmith5997 10 месяцев назад

      Five years before ,black people weren’t allowed to attend the same schools in large areas of the U S including the North,and segregation laws in the South were still statute. Leaders of the Free World my eye.

    • @zmvrcv
      @zmvrcv 10 месяцев назад

      oh no, anyway@@b.freeman2118

  • @RandaWise
    @RandaWise Год назад +3

    I was about 6 years old when I first heard about it. My mom and aunts were talking about the Freeway Phantom. I had older female cousins who were not allowed out alone because of this. We lived in the Anacostia, Southeast DC area.

  • @cristaltucker513
    @cristaltucker513 5 лет назад +8

    Very well done as always.

  • @chicagogyrl4846
    @chicagogyrl4846 Год назад +2

    Why didn’t she take her kid to 7-11 when she saw her??!

  • @KellyfromMemphis
    @KellyfromMemphis 3 месяца назад +1

    All those “racial injustices” we thought happened unfairly, that’s back before we all had statistics in our pockets…I miss being niave tbh 😢

  • @HappyMomma412
    @HappyMomma412 5 лет назад +15

    This is one of the best and most emotionally haunting episodes you all have done. Thank you! God bless you. From Saint Louis, MO, USA. 🌸🙏🏾💫💜

  • @SHurd-rc2go
    @SHurd-rc2go 3 года назад +10

    Can't do children. Thank you for the warnings you give. I'll just move on to another of your excellent podcasts.

  • @ssherrierable
    @ssherrierable 3 года назад

    Found a new channel to sub..

  • @cuzetteengelbrecht9233
    @cuzetteengelbrecht9233 3 года назад

    Utan

  • @rhysa8065
    @rhysa8065 3 года назад

    I think it was like 2-3 people considering one time they forgot the shoes

    • @katrinarose72
      @katrinarose72 3 года назад +3

      The one girl who didn’t have her shoes missing was killed by a gang and they were convicted.

  • @jomcmenamin4579
    @jomcmenamin4579 5 лет назад +3

    As allways excellence personified

  • @ashes0529
    @ashes0529 3 года назад

  • @robliles9288
    @robliles9288 4 года назад

    Your voice sounds like lazy another RUclipsr

  • @iknitbecuzmurderisfrownedupon
    @iknitbecuzmurderisfrownedupon Год назад

    Ain't those awethoritais just the epitome of brilliance.

    • @ruthbeamish8849
      @ruthbeamish8849 11 месяцев назад

      Do l detect the merest tad of sarcasm ?