![]() ![]() ![]() Everything passes through it – there is no filter that you have built within yourself to able to say, like, "I don't know if I agree with that." If somebody says "you don't belong here, you're bad at this, you're a disgrace for even trying to do something like this," those words have such a different intensity when you're a child because you just believe them. I mean, having so much intake of information when you're a child – and having not even a semblance of self, really, to bounce that off of. I had everything.ĭid it take a toll? Or were you too young to realize that this was awful? Also, being a 13-year-old in 2011, I had Twitter, I had YouTube, I had Facebook. I mean, my parents definitely tried to do everything that they could – but not having any experience in the industry, there were so many things that they didn't know. Were you shielded at all? Or did you hear and feel every bit of the hatred that was coming your way? Now I'm 25, with this experience of feeling like I had been defined by something that I never really set out to be defined by, especially as a kid. I've struggled a lot, as somebody who's grown into who I am now. Millions of people having awareness that you exist as a teenager is really complicated, and something I didn't really understand. Going through that as a teenager – when the internet was in a completely different place – I mean, I was just trying to cope with the experience of having a completely different version of my life, growing up in Orange County, going to middle school, having my friends, loving musical theater. I mean, trying to understand what happened to me when I was a 13-year-old, and then how the relationship I had with that experience changed as I got older, has been the thing that has probably defined me more than the experience itself. At some point, did you get to the stage in your head where you're like, "I've got to shed that?" Or did you always think, "Well, it's the thing that put me on the map?" So I think for you, it seemed to be the thing that was going to define you for a long time. I had to really decide, is this something that I want to do forever? And if so, what do I do with it? And what do I have to say?Ī lot of people loved "Friday." A lot of people hated it. So it felt almost like working backwards to this moment that I'm in right now. then that became this obviously much bigger moment than any of us anticipated. I was a teenager when that song came out, and that song was one of those strange, weird experiences that I got to have, that somehow I convinced my parents to do. If you have any information relating to these unsolved crimes, contact the Metropolitan Police Department at (202) 727-9099.What happened? I mean. The all new series premieres on May 17, 2023. ![]() Headlee will ask the questions: Why didn’t these murders make the news headlines? Did law enforcement do enough to solve these crimes? And how do racial disparities impact these types of investigations, past and present? Plus, we’ll explore new evidence which may crack the cold case wide open again. Journalist and Public Radio veteran Celeste Headlee (NPR, PBS, TEDx) examines old case files and interviews the investigators and family members who are still haunted by these killings. The media dubbed him “The Freeway Phantom.”įrom iHeartRadio and Tenderfoot TV, a new podcast reinvestigates the 50 year old unsolved murders of these young girls. ![]() Their bodies were discarded alongside DC freeways. Between 19, six black girls went missing in the Washington D.C. ![]()
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