Crime Soup

33. The African Phantom: A Serial Killer Is Targeting Young Women in Washington, DC | 1971

Crime Soup Season 2 Episode 8

CW: Rape

On the evening of December 14, 1971, 21-year-old Deborah Noel was violently raped and murdered in her apartment in northwest Washington, DC, and her death was quickly linked to the murders of two other young women  a mile away. Several eyewitnesses all described seeing a mysterious, young, black man wearing "African robes and a fez-style hat" around the time of the murder. Who is this phantom man and what is his connection to these women?

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