This material supplements episode 5 of our podcast on the Washington DC serial killer, the Freeway Phantom. Please follow us on Spotify, Podbean, iTunes, etc.
The focus of the Freeway Phantom investigators shifted to the members of a serial-rape gang in Washington DC. The gang operated in the same neighborhoods as the Freeway Phantom at the same time.
Melvin Gray. Postal worker and member of the Green Vega Gang, he confessed to two of the Freeway Phantom murders but his confession was a work of fictionPaul Brooks, member of the Green Vega Gang – responsible for possibly hundreds of gang rapes in the District of Columbia
Morris “Fatsy” Warren. His confessions into the involvement of the Green Vega Gang in the Freeway Phantom murders spurred the largest criminal task force in the city’s history up to that point. Later he recanted all involvement with the crimes.