1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Freeway Phanom, a production of iHeartRadio, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:08,040 Speaker 1: Tenderfoot TV, and Black bar Mitzvah. The views and opinions 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: expressed in this podcast are solely those of the podcast 4 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:15,159 Speaker 1: author or individuals participating in the podcast, and do not 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: represent those of iHeartMedia, Tenderfoot TV, Black bar Mitzvah, or 6 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 1: their employees. This podcast also contains subject matter that may 7 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,720 Speaker 1: not be suitable for everyone. Listener discretion is advised. 8 00:00:32,840 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: Brenda Woodard, who was actually the fifth victim. You know, 9 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: she was older. She was actually going to night school 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 2: and she was taking the bus home as she always 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,599 Speaker 2: did when she disappeared. When she was found, she had 12 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: not only been strangled, but she had been stabbed through 13 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: her clothing. And it was apparent that she had been 14 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 2: undressed and sexually assaulted and then had been redressed because 15 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: her shirt or sweater or whatever she was wearing was 16 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 2: on inside out at the time and she was stabbed 17 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,840 Speaker 2: through the sweater. Now, she was the one where he 18 00:01:08,920 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: left the note. What he actually did was he had 19 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 2: her write the note. It was in her handwriting, but 20 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 2: it was from him, and he basically was taunting the 21 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,880 Speaker 2: police saying that this is tantamount to how I feel 22 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 2: about women. If you catch me, I will admit to 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: the others. And he signed it the Freeway Phantom. The 24 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 2: Freeway Phantom wasn't a name that the police gave him. 25 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 2: That was a name that the press gave him after 26 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 2: his fourth victim, right before Brenda. So here he is. 27 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:42,440 Speaker 2: He's taunting the police. He knows enough to know not 28 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 2: to write the note himself because he could potentially be 29 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 2: connected to it. And then our theory is is that 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: at that time she realized that, oh my god, you know, 31 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 2: I'm not going to get out of this, and she 32 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 2: probably fought him and that's why he had to resort 33 00:01:58,520 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 2: so killing her. 34 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: The homicide detectives termed the cases the little girl cases. 35 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,960 Speaker 2: This child was laying on the side of the road 36 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:16,640 Speaker 2: as wouldn't go no way, I. 37 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 4: Would call out my house. 38 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 5: Those first five murders should have been a huge warning 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 5: bell for the police. 40 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 3: We just want to know what happened. This person must 41 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: have saw that they were thinking that maybe it's just 42 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 3: one person, and he says, oh, they need to know 43 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 3: this is me. 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: I thought that they would catch him. I thought it 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 2: was just a matter of time. 46 00:02:37,639 --> 00:02:46,600 Speaker 6: I'm Celeste Hedley and this is Freeway Phantom. On November fifteenth, 47 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:50,520 Speaker 6: nineteen seventy one, eighteen year old Brenda Woodard became the 48 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 6: fifth victim of the Freeway Phantom. It had been a 49 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 6: month and a half since the discovery of his fourth victim, 50 00:02:57,320 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 6: Ninomosha Yates, but the case of Brenda was different from 51 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 6: the rest of previous victims. Brenda was older, her life's 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 6: circumstances were divergent from the rest of the girls, and 53 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 6: the evidence that police found was unlike anything they'd seen before. 54 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,000 Speaker 6: Brenda Denise Woodard was born in nineteen fifty eight. Her 55 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 6: parents were Mary and Edward Woodard. She was the eldest 56 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:26,960 Speaker 6: of six children. We know that Brenda enjoyed music and 57 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 6: spending time with her friends. She had several jobs in 58 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 6: high school, but she struggled in her classes and had 59 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,080 Speaker 6: been held back two years. However, leading up to her death, 60 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,000 Speaker 6: Brenda's life was somewhat tumultuous, and that fact would become 61 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,160 Speaker 6: important later on in the case, so we'll go into 62 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 6: it here briefly. Until about three weeks before her murder, 63 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 6: Brenda was living with her family in Baltimore, Maryland, but 64 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,640 Speaker 6: just before Halloween she moved out. The FBI interviewed her 65 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:03,080 Speaker 6: father about the situation at home. Here's what the reports say, 66 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:04,520 Speaker 6: as read by a voice actor. 67 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 7: Mister Woodard advised his daughter had been somewhat of a 68 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 7: disciplinary problem to him because he had been forced to 69 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 7: reprimand her several times because of the late hours she 70 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 7: had been keeping, and because of her reluctance to inform 71 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,640 Speaker 7: him or her mother concerning where she was going when 72 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,239 Speaker 7: she left the house or the name of the person 73 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:29,279 Speaker 7: she planned to meet. He further recalled that approximately three 74 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:33,840 Speaker 7: weeks ago, shortly before Halloween weekend, she had been asked 75 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,279 Speaker 7: to help with the housework, particularly to wash dishes. She 76 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 7: failed to do this, and upon returning home from his 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 7: job with the Giant Food Company Beltsville, Maryland, he talked 78 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:48,160 Speaker 7: to his daughter and asked her why she had failed 79 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 7: to do so. Miss Woodard had no real excuse, and 80 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 7: her father informed her at this time that she was 81 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 7: welcome to remain in the family residence until she could 82 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 7: find a job, but after she found gameful employment, he 83 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 7: would appreciate it if she found some other place to live. 84 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 7: Unless she was willing to obey her parents and respect 85 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,479 Speaker 7: their wishes. He emphatically denied there had been any fight 86 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 7: between him and his daughter or that she had been 87 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,960 Speaker 7: forced to leave home. He stated, however, that after the 88 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 7: incident related above, he and his wife left the family 89 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 7: residence to go shopping, and upon their return home found 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,080 Speaker 7: miss Woodard had removed her clothing and moved next door 91 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,559 Speaker 7: to the residence of Brenda Schumpert twenty one oh seven 92 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 7: Maryland Avenue, Northeast. 93 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:41,159 Speaker 6: But Brenda's problems didn't stop there. Brenda reportedly had difficulties 94 00:05:41,160 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 6: with relationships. One boyfriend named Walter Clark gave her them 95 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 6: most trouble. When interviewed by police, Walter told authorities that 96 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 6: Brenda was infatuated with him, and although the feelings weren't mutual, 97 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 6: he would regularly have sex with her. Brenda was also 98 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,920 Speaker 6: said to have gotten incredibly jealous when Walter was around 99 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 6: other girls. In July of nineteen seventy one, Brenda was 100 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 6: admitted to a mental institution for hysteria. There, Brenda made 101 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 6: a friend named Pamela Taylor. Police would later interview Pamela, 102 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 6: who said that Brenda would sometimes climb into a car 103 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 6: with a stranger and have sex with them to get 104 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 6: back at Walter. This was important because Brenda's mother, Mary 105 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 6: described her as being shy, not the type of person 106 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 6: who would get in the car with a stranger. But 107 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 6: other friends of Brenda said the same thing as Pamela. 108 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,040 Speaker 6: Here's an interchange between a police officer and Brenda Shumpert, 109 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:38,440 Speaker 6: who was living with Brenda Woodard at the time. 110 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 7: Do you think Brenda would get into a car with 111 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:42,440 Speaker 7: a stranger. 112 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: I know she would. 113 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 4: I have seen her get out of a car driven 114 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:47,920 Speaker 4: by a guy and I asked who he was. 115 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:49,400 Speaker 8: She said, I don't know. 116 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:51,400 Speaker 4: He offered me a ride and just picked up my 117 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 4: packages and put them in the car, so I went 118 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 4: with them. 119 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:00,839 Speaker 6: However, Brenda started to turn things around that fall. She 120 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 6: had started taking night classes at Cardozo High School. On 121 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:08,239 Speaker 6: November fifteenth, the day she went missing, Brenda's father, Edward, 122 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 6: saw her for the last time. Here's part of his 123 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 6: statement to police given on November sixteenth, as read by 124 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 6: a voice actor. 125 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,040 Speaker 9: Yesterday, about five o'clock, she came home and she had 126 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 9: a record player with her. She knocked on the door, 127 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 9: and I went to the door, and she came in 128 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 9: the house. She started to unpack the record player because 129 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 9: she had just bought it, and I helped her unpack 130 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 9: it because she was having trouble opening it. I got 131 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 9: an album on and played it. Then I asked her 132 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 9: if she was going to school and she said yes, Daddy, 133 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,440 Speaker 9: but she didn't have to leave until six pm. Then 134 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 9: something stuck with me and I thought I should take 135 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 9: her to school. She sat there until about twelve minutes 136 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 9: after six, and then I took her to school. I 137 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 9: got there about five or ten minutes to seven. I said, Brenda, 138 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 9: are you coming over tomorrow? And she said yeah, yes. 139 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,400 Speaker 9: When she got out of the car, I felt like 140 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 9: I wanted to kiss her, but I didn't. She said bye, Daddy, 141 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 9: and I said bye. That's the last time I've seen her. 142 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,680 Speaker 6: After night classes, Brenda and a classmate named Sherman Mitchell 143 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 6: left school together. They decided they'd go to a well 144 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 6: known restaurant named Ben's Chili Bowl and then take the 145 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 6: bus home. Normally Mitchell would have driven, but his car 146 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 6: was in the shop that day. Mitchell gave this statement 147 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 6: to police, as read by a voice actor. 148 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 10: Brenda and I left school about nine to fifty five 149 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 10: pm November fifteenth, nineteen seventy one, and we walked down 150 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 10: twenty second Street northwest to U Street northwest and walked 151 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:50,120 Speaker 10: up to Ben's Chili Bowl. We had two hot dogs, 152 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 10: one half smoke, and two sodas. Brenda ordered another half smoke, 153 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 10: and I bought one pack of cool filter king for Brenda. 154 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 10: I knew she had eight cents, and I'm not sure 155 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 10: if she gave me a nickel on the cigarettes or not. 156 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,280 Speaker 10: We left the chili bowl after being there about twenty minutes. 157 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 10: The walk from the school was leisurely and took about 158 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 10: fifteen minutes. We left the chili bowl and walked to 159 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:15,680 Speaker 10: the bus stop at eleventh and U Streets Northwest. He 160 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 10: waited for about three minutes. We caught a bus Mark 161 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:21,680 Speaker 10: Garfield and took the Garfrael bus up to eighth and 162 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:25,640 Speaker 10: eighth Streets northeast to transfer. She could catch any bus 163 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 10: going out northeast. This was the last time I saw Brenda. 164 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 6: Brenda had told Sherman to call her later so they 165 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 6: could keep talking. He said he called after midnight, but 166 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 6: was told that Brenda still wasn't home. Sherman told law 167 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,880 Speaker 6: enforcement he was surprised by this since it was so late. Meanwhile, 168 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 6: Brenda's parents were becoming concerned. Brenda's mother took the bus 169 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 6: home from work that night, and when she walked to 170 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,559 Speaker 6: her bus stop, she saw a crime scene. There was 171 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 6: police tape and officers everywhere, but she couldn't figure out 172 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 6: what was going on. Still, it made her worried about Brenda. 173 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 6: Here again is the statement given by Brenda's father, Edward, 174 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:08,360 Speaker 6: to police, as read by a voice actor. 175 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,840 Speaker 9: When I got home today, my wife was crying. This 176 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,840 Speaker 9: was about one o'clock. I asked her what she was 177 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 9: crying for, and she said, I'm scared. I kept asking 178 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 9: her and she didn't want to talk. She couldn't hardly talk. 179 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,079 Speaker 9: She was so nervous. She said she got off from work, 180 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 9: she works at Prince George's Hospital, and she couldn't catch 181 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,560 Speaker 9: the bus because of all the police tape. She said 182 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 9: the traffic was blocked off and she had to walk 183 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 9: down the hill to catch the bus. She said she's 184 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 9: seen a wig. I don't know whether she was on 185 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 9: the bus or not, a brown wig. Then I asked 186 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 9: did she call the police, and she said no, she 187 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 9: was too nervous. She gave me the number and I 188 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,160 Speaker 9: called the police. The girl my daughter was living with 189 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 9: called my wife and asked her had she seen Brenda 190 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,320 Speaker 9: and she told her no. She told my wife that 191 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 9: she had not Brenda, and she said this boy called 192 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,040 Speaker 9: her and told her that he and Brenda had got 193 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 9: off a bus at eighth and H Street northeast and 194 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 9: this was the last time he's seen her. He said, that's. 195 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:18,880 Speaker 6: It, Mary Wititdward was scared that maybe it was her 196 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 6: daughter found by the bus stop, and the next morning, 197 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 6: on November sixteenth, Mary's gut feeling would be confirmed. In 198 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 6: the early morning hours of November sixteenth, Officer David Norman 199 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 6: spotted what he thought was a man slumped over on 200 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:56,680 Speaker 6: the side of the road not far from Prince George's 201 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 6: County Hospital. Officer Norman made a U turn across the 202 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 6: grass median of Hospital Road and parked with his headlight 203 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:06,959 Speaker 6: shining directly on the body. He walked within two feet 204 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 6: of the body before he realized it was a black 205 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 6: woman lying face up with a coat draped over her. 206 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 6: He determined she was dead because she wasn't breathing, her 207 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 6: eyes were wide open, and her arms were above her 208 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 6: head with her hand partially erect. Officer Norman had found 209 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 6: the freeway Fantom's fifth and oldest victim. 210 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,920 Speaker 11: She had been strangled, and what was different with her 211 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 11: is she had also been stabbed, so it's very clear 212 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 11: that I'd like previous victims, she put up a serious 213 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,199 Speaker 11: struggle with her a Sami. 214 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 6: This is writer Blaine Pardo, who co authored a book 215 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,839 Speaker 6: on the Freeway Phantom with his daughter Victoria Hester. 216 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 11: It's on a little grassy area on a curve of 217 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 11: the road. She was found laying face up with her 218 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,000 Speaker 11: hands clasped over her hat. She died really of the 219 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 11: stab world, although there were some strangulation. She had a 220 00:13:02,200 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 11: broken bone in her neck, probably from squeezing of her throat, 221 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 11: but it was the stab wound that killed her. 222 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 6: In the police files, I discovered a photo of Brenda 223 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:17,400 Speaker 6: Woodard's crime scene. Believe me, none of the bodies were 224 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 6: easy to look at, but this one disturbed me in 225 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 6: a different way. Unlike the others, her body looked like 226 00:13:25,120 --> 00:13:27,600 Speaker 6: it had been thrown, as if the killer was in 227 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 6: a hurry to dispose of her. Her body was mangled 228 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 6: and her bloody clothes were still on the spot where 229 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 6: her body was placed is on a grassy slope just 230 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 6: beside the street, and you can see her feet angling 231 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 6: up towards the road. This crime scene felt violent, it 232 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:52,200 Speaker 6: felt wrong. When we talked to Detective Jim Traynham, he 233 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 6: confirmed the dark suspicion that bubbled up in Brenda's mother 234 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 6: that night. 235 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 2: Brenda's body was found near the bus stop that her 236 00:14:00,280 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 2: mother actually took to go home. When she came out, 237 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 2: she saw all a police activity, not knowing that it 238 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:10,560 Speaker 2: was her daughter who was lying there. So again that 239 00:14:10,679 --> 00:14:15,080 Speaker 2: raises several questions. Is it a possibility that he knew Brenda, 240 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 2: he knew her mother, or he found out information about 241 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,120 Speaker 2: her mother during the time he spent with Brenda. You know, 242 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:23,160 Speaker 2: these things are all things that we have to consider. 243 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 6: Trainan believes this murder tells us a lot about the 244 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 6: killer's m O and perhaps why he was so difficult 245 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 6: to capture. 246 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 2: And looking at how the victims, where they were picked 247 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:40,040 Speaker 2: up and where they were their bodies were dump you know, 248 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: the first two victims came from the very same neighborhood 249 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:47,880 Speaker 2: and they were found at the very same location off 250 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 2: for two ninety five. One of the theories that's been 251 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 2: proposed is is that even though there was not a 252 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 2: lot of police activity, you know, surrounding these girls, at 253 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 2: that time, probably there was a lot of neighbor talk 254 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,240 Speaker 2: and a lot of neighborhood interests, So the thought was 255 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,480 Speaker 2: that he's either from that neighborhood, familiar with that neighborhood, 256 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,480 Speaker 2: seen a lot in that neighborhood, so that may have 257 00:15:10,680 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 2: caused him some concern, especially if he's like the neighborhood 258 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: weird guy or had some sort of similar incident where 259 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 2: people might be kind of like pointing at him. So 260 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:23,400 Speaker 2: he decides to go outside the neighborhood, and so he's 261 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,760 Speaker 2: now going to other sections of the city. DC is 262 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 2: a small city to begin with, but it has its 263 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 2: own select neighborhoods, and those neighborhoods can be very isolated. 264 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 2: People who live in one neighborhood down in southeast back 265 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 2: then wouldn't typically frequent with people in another neighborhood up 266 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 2: in northwest. It just wasn't as much traffic going back 267 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:50,160 Speaker 2: and forth. So he goes to these other neighborhoods, and 268 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 2: then he starts going right across the DC line. He 269 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 2: doesn't go far, but just right across the DC line 270 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,560 Speaker 2: to where he drops the body, so that there obviously 271 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: can be there in plane view off the major road. 272 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 2: But that is also causes confusion because police departments, you 273 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 2: think that they like to share information, that we're all 274 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,080 Speaker 2: working together as a team and all that we don't 275 00:16:15,320 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 2: and there's a lot of rivalry going on, and so 276 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:23,080 Speaker 2: anytime that you start putting bodies in different jurisdictions, they're 277 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 2: going to have a lot of infighting and stuff like 278 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:29,120 Speaker 2: that and not sharing of information like you should have. 279 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: So that probably confuses the investigation as well. 280 00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 6: It didn't help that Brenda Woodard's crime scene was so 281 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,800 Speaker 6: different from the previous victims. The only similarities were that 282 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 6: she was dumped near the freeway and that police found 283 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:48,200 Speaker 6: green synthetic fibers on her coat, socks, skirt, and panties. 284 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,920 Speaker 6: But what was new was that Brenda had been stabbed 285 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 6: multiple times, which had not been the case for previous victims. 286 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 6: There was a superficial stab wound to her head, a 287 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 6: stab wound her chest through her sweater, and two stab 288 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:07,480 Speaker 6: wounds to her abdomen. She was also still fully clothed 289 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 6: and still had her shoes on, which were black boots, 290 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,160 Speaker 6: and police found traces of hair from two different men, 291 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 6: a black man and a white man. Negroid head hairs 292 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 6: were found on her boot shirt, braw and coat, and 293 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 6: Caucasian headhairs were found on her coat and skirt. Some 294 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 6: investigators have stated they believe the Caucasian hairs originated from 295 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 6: law enforcement on the scene. Lastly, she had a number 296 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 6: of defensive wounds, suggesting she put up a struggle against 297 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 6: her killer. 298 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 3: Oh, yes, she put up a fight. 299 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,840 Speaker 6: This is retired MPD detective Romayne Jenkins. She says that 300 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,920 Speaker 6: this particular murder brought up a lot of questions in. 301 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 3: The case, Brenda put up a fight. That's why he 302 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,280 Speaker 3: stabs her, he strangles her, he rapes her. She put 303 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 3: up a fight, and she does have defiled and wounds. 304 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,240 Speaker 3: But what made her suspicious? What made her go willingly 305 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:06,880 Speaker 3: with him? Why? 306 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,280 Speaker 6: Romayne says the case of Brenda Woodard was one of 307 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,639 Speaker 6: the most difficult ones for her to hear about. 308 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,679 Speaker 3: We live basically in the same neighborhood, I mean, the 309 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 3: same type of apartments, the same people. I didn't know 310 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 3: her because she was much younger than I, but it 311 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 3: was basically the same neighborhood. And I used to hang 312 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,280 Speaker 3: out wish where she lived. I had friends up there, 313 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 3: you know, I had relatives who lived up there. In 314 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:34,840 Speaker 3: the same apartments that as she lived in. 315 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 6: Romayne. Like many other investigators, was also disturbed by one 316 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,879 Speaker 6: major piece of evidence found at the crime scene, a 317 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:49,280 Speaker 6: handwritten note tucked inside Brenda's coat pocket. Here's what the 318 00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 6: note said. 319 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 3: This is tantamount to my insensitivity to people, especially women. 320 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,520 Speaker 3: I will admit the others when you catch me if 321 00:19:00,560 --> 00:19:05,400 Speaker 3: you can, signed Freeway Phantom. 322 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 11: And the note was something that she had written. It 323 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:12,400 Speaker 11: was her handwriting, but it was the killer's words. 324 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:15,480 Speaker 6: This is writer Blaine Pardo again. 325 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,119 Speaker 11: So the belief is that he may have had this 326 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 11: note pre written and said copy it because there's words 327 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:25,480 Speaker 11: in this is she never would have used it said 328 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 11: this is tantamount to my insensitivity, which was misspelled to people, 329 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:35,200 Speaker 11: especially women. I will admit the others when you catch 330 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:38,920 Speaker 11: me if you can. And it was signed the Freeway 331 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 11: Phantom where the freeway is hyphenated. The note on its 332 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 11: own is the scariest thing because it's the killer reaching 333 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:52,520 Speaker 11: out to everybody out there, saying who he is and 334 00:19:52,560 --> 00:19:55,679 Speaker 11: what he's doing and why he's doing it. It's not 335 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 11: a very long note, but what's interesting is when you 336 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,000 Speaker 11: look at it, you literally can see where he went 337 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,720 Speaker 11: along and almost checked off each word to make sure 338 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,320 Speaker 11: it was right. The phrase freeway fanom had been picked 339 00:20:09,359 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 11: up by the news media and was being used both 340 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,159 Speaker 11: a newspaper and on TV and radio describing killer, so 341 00:20:16,240 --> 00:20:18,879 Speaker 11: he was admitting, I am the freeway fanom. This is 342 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 11: a victim of the freewaydea. We ended up going to 343 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 11: one of the investigators who pioneered forensic linguistics, who actually 344 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,280 Speaker 11: caught the unibomber. We actually gave him a copy of 345 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 11: the note. Had said, help us see what you can 346 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 11: do with this, and he went over in great detail 347 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:39,760 Speaker 11: and he said, there's a lot of interesting things in here. 348 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 11: One of the things he pointed out to us was 349 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 11: my insensitivity to people, especially women. So has he been 350 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 11: killing young men too and we don't know it? And 351 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,840 Speaker 11: he said the Hyphenetiana Freeway was very interesting. He literally 352 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,679 Speaker 11: sent me the Library of Congress to go through newspapers, 353 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 11: thirty years worth of newspapers trying to find instances where 354 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:06,399 Speaker 11: free way was hyphenated. And he believed it's a West 355 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:09,960 Speaker 11: coast thing. I couldn't find anything on that, but he said, 356 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 11: I'm almost positive that's something to do with the West coast. Now, 357 00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:16,760 Speaker 11: the only reference I ever found to it was in 358 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:22,159 Speaker 11: a psychological book from nineteen fifteen nineteen twenty something like 359 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 11: that about homosexuality, which is interesting because it's a kind 360 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 11: of book you might find in a mental institution. A 361 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:34,119 Speaker 11: mental institution in Washington, DC area had a pretty distinct 362 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 11: tie to all of us. 363 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,639 Speaker 6: If you remember, Brenda Woodard was briefly in a mental institution, 364 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,440 Speaker 6: and later in the investigation, one of the prime suspects 365 00:21:45,680 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 6: would also have ties to a mental institution. More on 366 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 6: that in a later episode. 367 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 11: To me, that note is everything because it's the first 368 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 11: time and the only time that the killer reaches out 369 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,640 Speaker 11: to the authorities. It was todping, catch me if you can't. Terrible, 370 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 11: just absolutely terrible. 371 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,639 Speaker 4: And it makes you wonder too. Did she fight back 372 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 4: because she basically wrote her own killer's note. 373 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,639 Speaker 6: This is author Victoria hester Blaine's daughter and co writer. 374 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,679 Speaker 6: She's speaking to the question Romayne brought up earlier about 375 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:26,919 Speaker 6: why Brenda put up a fight either before or after 376 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 6: she was forced to write the note. 377 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:32,680 Speaker 4: I mean, we know it's her handwriting. She literally had 378 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 4: to sit there and write, either copy it or take 379 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,879 Speaker 4: his word for word and write it down. And she 380 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,399 Speaker 4: probably knew what was happening next probably put it all together, 381 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,679 Speaker 4: which is probably why she fought so hard, because she 382 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 4: saw it coming, whereas the other girls were a lot 383 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 4: younger and may have not known. They may have not 384 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 4: understood or felt the same fear. But that's like new 385 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 4: level as having your victim write a note and then 386 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,879 Speaker 4: putting it in the pocket on their body. That was 387 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,600 Speaker 4: it's creepy to read, Like even just looking at the handwriting, 388 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,959 Speaker 4: it's just creepy knowing that a killer wrote that. 389 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 11: And I don't think it was dictated. We spoke with 390 00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 11: Remaine Jenkins and she was like, if it was dictated, 391 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,959 Speaker 11: there would have been more misspellings, there would have been 392 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 11: more mistakes associated with it. This was something that was copied. 393 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:24,440 Speaker 11: It was very specific. 394 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,600 Speaker 6: There were also the peculiar language choices used by the 395 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 6: killer throughout the note. 396 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 11: The word tantamount. Think about this, Who uses that word? 397 00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 11: Everything else? All the rest of the wording is almost 398 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 11: everyday type of thing, the word insensitivity. You'll hear people 399 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 11: use that. How often do you hear people use the 400 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:47,680 Speaker 11: word tantamount? 401 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 6: Since it's such an unusual word, we thought we'd quickly 402 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 6: define it here. Tantamount means to be equivalent in value, significance, 403 00:23:57,520 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 6: or effect. Merriam Webster uses this example. His statement was 404 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 6: tantamount to an admission of guilt, meaning something may not 405 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 6: equal something else literally, but it may be of about 406 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 6: equal value. 407 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,439 Speaker 11: And that really stuck with the authorities, like they really 408 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 11: later investigations really focused on that, because unfortunately, if you 409 00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 11: go around going, hey, did this guy ever use the 410 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,080 Speaker 11: word tantamount, You're going to get a lot of people 411 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:28,639 Speaker 11: at start saying, well, yeah, that's the case. I'm sure 412 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 11: it's an interesting word to have in your vocabulary. I 413 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,080 Speaker 11: write a lot of books. I don't think I ever 414 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,720 Speaker 11: used it prior to this book. 415 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 4: I mean, I had to look it up because I 416 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 4: was like, what does that even mean? I've never heard 417 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 4: of that word. It's definitely not something in everybody's vocabulary. 418 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 4: And I don't know, maybe he heard it somewhere and 419 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 4: he thought it maybe made him sound smart, maybe that's 420 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 4: what he was going for. Or was this something that 421 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 4: a word that was a part of a court case 422 00:24:57,560 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 4: that he lost that really pissed him off. So it's interesting. 423 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 11: Several of the investigators we talked to, so that's such 424 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 11: an interesting word and it's almost like he's trying to 425 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:12,480 Speaker 11: make himself sound more intelligent, and it's not the correct 426 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 11: use of the word Jim's about, so it's almost forced. 427 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 11: It also tells you about the location where he kept 428 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 11: his victims. Had to have good lighting, had to have 429 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,720 Speaker 11: a desk to write on, had to have a pencil, 430 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 11: and everything had to be there for that to happen. 431 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,120 Speaker 6: Detective Romayne Jenkins considers the note to be one of, 432 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,919 Speaker 6: if not the most important pieces of evidence in this case. 433 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 6: As for her assessment, she largely agrees with Blaine and Victoria. 434 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 3: I always felt if these cases ever closed, the antswer 435 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,760 Speaker 3: lies with Brenda Wooded. Why do you say that because 436 00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 3: of the note, Because of the note that he left. 437 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 3: He wanted to note found and Brenda Woodard wrote the note. 438 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 3: Brenda Woodard knew about the other girl's cases. She warned 439 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,640 Speaker 3: her own family, her sisters, to be careful because there's 440 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:14,000 Speaker 3: somebody out here snatching young girls. She knew about it. 441 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,400 Speaker 3: So if you look at her handwriting, it's in her 442 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 3: normal writing. There is no no sign of stress, no 443 00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,919 Speaker 3: sign of stress, none, none that somebody said write this 444 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 3: note and she just did it. 445 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 6: Did you keep a copy of the note. 446 00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:34,680 Speaker 3: I saw the note and we were sworn to secrecy 447 00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:38,679 Speaker 3: that we were never to divulge the contents of the 448 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 3: note because that's the only thing they had. They had 449 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: nothing else, and they realized the importance of the note 450 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:47,160 Speaker 3: because a lot of times when you have high profile cases, 451 00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 3: everybody wants to run to the police and say I 452 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 3: did it. You know, they want to confess. But if 453 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,000 Speaker 3: they couldn't tell you the contents of the note, then 454 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:59,120 Speaker 3: you knew this person was not responsible. So that's why 455 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,360 Speaker 3: we were We were told not to divulge the contents 456 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 3: of the note, and to my knowledge, it wasn't done 457 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,680 Speaker 3: until recently. The note was talked about, but the contents 458 00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 3: were not revealed until recently. Within the last few years. 459 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 6: The news of Brenda Woodard's death shook up the community 460 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 6: and the investigation. Now there were six different agencies involved 461 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:48,760 Speaker 6: in the case, MPD, Prince George County, Maryland State Police, 462 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 6: Chevrolet Police, and the US Park Service, and the cases 463 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 6: were officially designated the Freeway Phantom Cases. In our investigation, 464 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 6: the shift in law enforcement involvement is evident. A source 465 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,480 Speaker 6: provided US with thousands of documents from the varying jurisdictions, 466 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 6: including the FBI. These include suspect interviews and evidence collected 467 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 6: from crime scenes and from potential suspects. Most of this 468 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 6: begins after Brenda. Even members of the local DC government 469 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 6: started to speak out about the murders. Here's an excerpt 470 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 6: from the book The Mystery of the Freeway Phantom by 471 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 6: author and community member Wilma Harper. 472 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,360 Speaker 8: On November eighteenth, nineteen seventy one, Mayor Walter Washington emphasized 473 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 8: Police Chief Jerry Wilson's all out appeal to the public 474 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 8: for help in the search for the killer or killers 475 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:45,560 Speaker 8: responsible for the murders. In a surprise move, the mayor 476 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 8: joined the police chief at a press conference and said 477 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,720 Speaker 8: he was deeply and greatly concerned about the killings. He 478 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,840 Speaker 8: pledged the entire resources of the city government in helping 479 00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 8: the FBI, the District of Columbia, and Prince George's County 480 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:02,800 Speaker 8: police departments in the search. Mayor Washington also strongly endorsed 481 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 8: an appeal the police department had made to the community 482 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 8: asking for assistance in the solution. 483 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:08,520 Speaker 6: Of the crimes. 484 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 8: The appeal was published in the Daily News under the 485 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:23,800 Speaker 8: caption does anyone know the Phantom. 486 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 6: The FBI also made some peculiar choices. At one point, 487 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,160 Speaker 6: they made a lookalike doll of Brenda. They took a 488 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,640 Speaker 6: picture and circulated flyers with the photo and information of 489 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 6: her disappearance. The flyer gave basic background detail of time 490 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 6: and place, of where she was last seen and where 491 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 6: her body was found. It also outlined what Brenda was 492 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,840 Speaker 6: wearing and how she was killed. The flyer was addressed 493 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:47,320 Speaker 6: to all cab drivers and directed people to call the 494 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 6: FBI's listed phone number. There is also a lot of 495 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 6: negative information about Brenda herself. In the police report. The 496 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 6: description of her was brief. Here's what it said, as 497 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,560 Speaker 6: read by a voice actor. 498 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 7: Immature, naive, sex with strangers for rides, hitchhikes, living with girlfriend, 499 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 7: attended night school, en route home by bus, psite counseling. 500 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,520 Speaker 6: And in police interviews. Investigators seemed fixed on the idea 501 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,560 Speaker 6: that Brenda was overly promiscuous, often suggesting that was the 502 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 6: reason she was killed. As we heard earlier, several friends 503 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 6: did report that Brenda would sometimes accept rides for men 504 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,880 Speaker 6: that she did not know. However, many people spoke to 505 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 6: the contrary, including the last person to see her alive. 506 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:39,680 Speaker 6: Sherman Mitchell. Here's more from the police report, as read 507 00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:40,520 Speaker 6: by a voice actor. 508 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 7: Mitchell did not think Brenda would on impulse jump into 509 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 7: an automobile of an unknown person. He did not think 510 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 7: she would turn tricks for money, nor did he think 511 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:54,280 Speaker 7: she was on any kind of narcotics. Mitchell advised that 512 00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 7: he has never in his life taken any narcotics and 513 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 7: were certain Brenda had not. He advised that was easy 514 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,880 Speaker 7: to make friends with and was very sympathetic towards others. 515 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 6: Another one of Brenda's friends, Diane Murray, expressed similar sentiments. 516 00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,520 Speaker 6: This is also from the police report read by a 517 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:13,160 Speaker 6: voice actor. 518 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 7: Woodard, to her knowledge, never accepted a ride with anyone 519 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 7: who would drive past and offer her a ride in 520 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,120 Speaker 7: an automobile. This has occasionally happened in the past when 521 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 7: the two of them would be together on the street. 522 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 7: In all instances, Woodard would refuse the invitation to ride 523 00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:31,840 Speaker 7: in the automobile. 524 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,120 Speaker 6: Well, it's possible that Brenda did, in fact accept rides 525 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 6: from strangers, it's odd that police were so quick to 526 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:44,120 Speaker 6: solely adopt that perspective, and from reading the documents, it 527 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,280 Speaker 6: looks as though investigators wrote Brenda off as a result. 528 00:31:48,080 --> 00:31:51,240 Speaker 6: So while Brenda's actions may have put her at higher 529 00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,680 Speaker 6: risk of being victimized, her death was in no way 530 00:31:54,760 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 6: less tragic and she deserved a proper investigation. Also, the 531 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,280 Speaker 6: rhetoric about her promiscuity was not only damaging to the case, 532 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 6: but it really reinforced harmful and unfair stereotypes. Meanwhile, the 533 00:32:14,320 --> 00:32:20,120 Speaker 6: community was terrified, now more so than ever. Strangely, many 534 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,520 Speaker 6: people were concerned about one specific detail. 535 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,760 Speaker 3: Well, the community was up in arms because several of 536 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,760 Speaker 3: the girls had the name Denise. So everybody who had 537 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 3: a daughter or somebody kin with the name Denise, they 538 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 3: were very cautious. 539 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 6: This is Romaine Jenkins again, as she says, three of 540 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 6: the total six confirmed Freeway phantom victims had the middle 541 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:46,800 Speaker 6: name Denise. 542 00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,240 Speaker 3: And people prayed on this extent, I'm gonna get your daughter, Denise. 543 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,240 Speaker 3: I'm gonna snatch her from school. You know. Parents were 544 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,920 Speaker 3: getting phone calls like that. And whether they were actual 545 00:32:57,320 --> 00:33:01,080 Speaker 3: people doing this, who had anything to do with the investigation, 546 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 3: we don't know. It was just the thing, be wave. 547 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 3: If your name is Denise, then you come in this 548 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,680 Speaker 3: house at a certain time, don't talk to strangers. And 549 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,520 Speaker 3: and parents were concerned. They were really concerned. 550 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 6: Author Wilma Harper wrote about this in her book The 551 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 6: Mystery of the Freeway Phantom. She says it started when 552 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 6: one expert was interviewed by a local newspaper. 553 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 8: The day after the body of Brenda Denise Woodard was found. 554 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:31,360 Speaker 8: Doctor Sheldon Freud, an internationally known psychologist working with the 555 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 8: Prince George's County Police Department, warned black girls named Denise 556 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,840 Speaker 8: that their lives were in danger. Both Freud and the 557 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,960 Speaker 8: police believed the phantom was deliberately seeking out teenagers named 558 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 8: Denise as targets for his highway slaughter. 559 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 6: And then, as Wilma Harper writes, things came to a 560 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 6: head at Brenda's funeral. 561 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,200 Speaker 8: Funeral services for Brenda Denise Woodard were held on November 562 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:00,280 Speaker 8: twenty second, nineteen seventy one, six days after her body 563 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,840 Speaker 8: had been found just off the Baltimore Washington Parkway. The 564 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,480 Speaker 8: Reverend Thomas Jennings at the Tenth Street Baptist Church conducted 565 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:11,880 Speaker 8: the service by eleven am. About ninety persons, many of 566 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 8: them girlfriends of miss Woodard, had viewed the body. They 567 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:17,680 Speaker 8: signed their names in a book on a pedestal near 568 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 8: the entrance way to the chapel. The cover of the 569 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:25,240 Speaker 8: book said in memory of Miss Brenda Woodard friends who called. 570 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,320 Speaker 8: It was noted that at least ten of the girls 571 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 8: who signed the book were named Denise. One mourner sobbed 572 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 8: loud enough for those around her to hear, Oh Jesus, 573 00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,840 Speaker 8: oh Lord, I hope he doesn't see those names. She 574 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,479 Speaker 8: was referring to the killers and the possible homicidal hate 575 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 8: for the name Denise. 576 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 6: Writer Blaine Pardo is skeptical about the Denise connection. 577 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:54,240 Speaker 11: The name Denise pops up at several of these victims, 578 00:34:54,600 --> 00:34:58,760 Speaker 11: and that became this, Oh my gosh, he's killing girls 579 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 11: with the middle name Denise. Okay, today I could go 580 00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,839 Speaker 11: and google high school directory maybe and find out who 581 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 11: all these people are. Nineteen seventy, how would you even 582 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 11: know how to find someone with the middle named Denise. 583 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:16,759 Speaker 11: And again, you have to always look at these through 584 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 11: the lens of how things were then. But that became 585 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,520 Speaker 11: a big deal, and there were there were actual TV 586 00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,000 Speaker 11: broadcasts that we looked at where they were like, Hey, 587 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 11: if your daughter's middle name is Denise, you know you 588 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,359 Speaker 11: need to escort her to school and pick her up 589 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,920 Speaker 11: because this is what this killer's focusing on. 590 00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:39,440 Speaker 6: Detective Jim Trainham says they successfully debunked the idea that 591 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,840 Speaker 6: the killer was targeting people named Denise. 592 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 2: We kind of did a little research back then, and 593 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:49,000 Speaker 2: Denise was an extremely popular name during that time period. 594 00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,319 Speaker 2: So there again, you know the likelihood if you have 595 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,000 Speaker 2: enough people let them be named Denise or having Denis 596 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,640 Speaker 2: as part of their name increases and so that could 597 00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:02,880 Speaker 2: just very well would be a coincidence there. One of 598 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 2: the things that we did was there were numerous behavioral 599 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:11,640 Speaker 2: or psychological profiles done of the phantom, and we kind 600 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,560 Speaker 2: of looked at the different profiles and how they kind 601 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,359 Speaker 2: of varied. Some of them talked about how Denise played 602 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,960 Speaker 2: a significant part and others didn't. I honestly believe that 603 00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:30,880 Speaker 2: these people were chosen at random. 604 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,720 Speaker 6: Whether or not he was actually targeting girls named Denise. 605 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,799 Speaker 6: People in the neighborhood were convinced of the danger, and 606 00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 6: the paranoia in the area was out of control. According 607 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,760 Speaker 6: to a Daily News article published three days after Brenda 608 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,080 Speaker 6: was found, there had been more than four thousand tips 609 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,120 Speaker 6: called into the police tip line during that period, not 610 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 6: all of them useful. Here are a few examples as 611 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 6: read by voice actors. 612 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 12: My father, Well, what's your name? 613 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 2: I got some information you are, Well, what is it? 614 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,919 Speaker 7: When you find the phantom, you'll be a surprise. If 615 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,440 Speaker 7: the phantom where the policeman's here before. 616 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 2: Then. 617 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,320 Speaker 6: On November twentieth, the Washington Daily News sponsored a public 618 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,839 Speaker 6: service announcement in the form of an open letter to 619 00:37:15,880 --> 00:37:18,920 Speaker 6: the killer. Heard on the radio and on television. 620 00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,080 Speaker 12: This is an appeal to the person responsible for the 621 00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:27,080 Speaker 12: death of six young girls. Please call this number four 622 00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,520 Speaker 12: six two nine four one five. This is the paypile 623 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,600 Speaker 12: and it's not tapped, and you will hear my voice only. 624 00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:37,040 Speaker 12: Here's why I'm asking you to call right now. I'm 625 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,959 Speaker 12: more concerned about you. You probably feel the whole world 626 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,200 Speaker 12: is after you. 627 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:42,080 Speaker 2: You may be scared. 628 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,239 Speaker 12: He must be just plain tired. If you are, there 629 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 12: is someone you can turn to without fear. 630 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:54,400 Speaker 6: Shortly thereafter, the phone number received eight calls, with heavy breathing, 631 00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:58,520 Speaker 6: no sound or tips, and a woman hysterically crying in 632 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,160 Speaker 6: the background. Following all of this, a five thousand dollars 633 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,239 Speaker 6: reward was offered by The Washington Evening Star, and a 634 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 6: one thousand dollars reward was offered by WUST Radio. In 635 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,879 Speaker 6: one interesting twist, there was even an official connection made 636 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:17,800 Speaker 6: to the Zodiac killer. On December first, a San Francisco 637 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:22,000 Speaker 6: homicide detective sent communication to the Washington Field office comparing 638 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,200 Speaker 6: the Freeway Phantom and Zodiac cases. The note stated, though 639 00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 6: that there were many differences between the murders. The Zodiac 640 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:33,400 Speaker 6: did not sexually assault his victims. The Zodiac also didn't 641 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:36,719 Speaker 6: target a specific race, nor did he strangle his victims. 642 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 6: But there was a request to compare the handwriting and 643 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,360 Speaker 6: fingerprints on the Freeway note with those of the Zodiac 644 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:50,120 Speaker 6: notes and Cipher's. However, none of this went anywhere. After 645 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,480 Speaker 6: a few weeks, the hysteria died down. Months went by 646 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,880 Speaker 6: without any murders, and most people assumed that the Freeway 647 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 6: Phantom was done. Sadly the end, that wasn't true. 648 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,759 Speaker 2: We thought that after Brenda was stabbed, and after this 649 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,840 Speaker 2: screw up with Brenda because it didn't go as smoothly 650 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:12,000 Speaker 2: as he wanted, he went into hiatus for a while, 651 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 2: nobody heard of you from him. But then he goes 652 00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:19,840 Speaker 2: in the opposite direction down two ninety five. That's when 653 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,040 Speaker 2: Diane Williams was killed, and he drops her off on 654 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:24,959 Speaker 2: the side of the road. 655 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,320 Speaker 6: Next time on Freeway Phantom. 656 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,560 Speaker 3: We were reading in the newspaper that there was a 657 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,400 Speaker 3: body found. 658 00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:40,879 Speaker 6: We just knew that that was Diane. 659 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,960 Speaker 4: Her boyfriend escorted her to the bus stop, so we 660 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,840 Speaker 4: know that she got at least to the bus. We 661 00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,960 Speaker 4: have no idea how she got where she was based 662 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 4: on where she was dropped off. 663 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:54,160 Speaker 2: The main thing, you were hoping sometime at one of 664 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 2: these crime scenes that the assailant would drop something, he 665 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,759 Speaker 2: would lose something that was his. 666 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,879 Speaker 3: Whoever did the cases get right into the community never 667 00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,000 Speaker 3: raised any suspicion at all. 668 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:12,840 Speaker 5: It's typical to generate a lot of suspects, like literally hundreds, 669 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 5: if not thousands, or tens of thousands of suspects, so 670 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,120 Speaker 5: finding who you're looking for is like trying to find 671 00:40:19,120 --> 00:40:20,280 Speaker 5: a needle in a Haysback. 672 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,759 Speaker 1: Freeway Fantom is a production of iHeart Radio, Tenderfoot TV 673 00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,560 Speaker 1: and Black Bar MITZVAH. 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