DNA discovery could solve 1972 Freeway Phantom slaying

Published February 21, 2009 5:00am ET



Diane Williams was heading home from spending time with her boyfriend when she got on a bus on Martin Luther King Avenue late on the evening of Sept. 5, 1972. The 17-year-old was found strangled the next morning near an on ramp on the southbound side of

Interstate 295 in Prince George’s County, just outside the D.C. line.

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