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Speaker 1: This is tantamount to my insensitivity to people, especially women.

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Speaker 1: I will admit the others when you catch me. If

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Speaker 1: you can signe freeway fans.

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Speaker 2: Between April nineteen seventy one and September nineteen seventy two,

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Speaker 2: six young black girls were snatched off the streets in Washington.

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Speaker 1: The homicide detectives termed the cases the Little Girl Cases.

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Speaker 4: This child was laying on the side of the road.

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Speaker 4: It appeared that she was probably either dragged out of

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Speaker 4: the car or thrown out of the car.

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Speaker 5: That's heard of thing I ever did in my life.

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Speaker 5: Hold somebody's hand and they look and they have to

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Speaker 5: don't find that child.

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Speaker 4: My brother has never been the same, but none.

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Speaker 5: Of us though.

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Speaker 2: It took four murders before the police finally realized that

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Speaker 2: one person was responsible.

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Speaker 1: This person must have paid attention to news paper accounts,

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Speaker 1: and he saw that they were thinking that maybe it's

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Speaker 1: just one person. And he says, oh, they need to know,

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Speaker 1: they need to know.

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Speaker 3: This is me.

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Speaker 2: In a note left on one victim, the killer called

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Speaker 2: himself the freeway Phantom.

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Speaker 5: The killer believed that he may have been seeing.

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Speaker 3: The person said I murdered your daughter.

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Speaker 5: That guy is he's out a sink quist even the

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Speaker 5: worst people.

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Speaker 2: The FBI spent years investigating the case.

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Speaker 4: I thought that they would catch him. I thought it

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Speaker 4: was just a matter of time.

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Speaker 2: But the Freeway Phantom was never caught.

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Speaker 3: Is it possible that the killer is still alive? We

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Speaker 3: still care and it still hurts. We just want to

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Speaker 3: know what happened.

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Speaker 2: From Tenderfoot TV, iHeartRadio and blackbar Mitzvah. I'm Celeste Hedley

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Speaker 2: and this is Freeway Phantom. The first two episodes drop

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Speaker 2: on May seventeenth. Listen to Freeway Phantom on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.