{"product_id":"six-before-the-name-daniel-hartsfield-9798190310108","title":"Six Before the Name: The Unsolved Murders of Six Black Girls and Young Women in 1970s Washington, D.C.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix lives came first. The name came later.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween April 1971 and September 1972, six Black girls and young women disappeared from ordinary routines in Washington, D.C. Their unresolved homicides became publicly known as the Freeway Phantom murders. Yet the name attached to an unknown offender has often overshadowed the people at the center of the case: Carol Denise Spinks, Darlenia Denise Johnson, Brenda Faye Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates, Brenda Denise Woodard, and Diane Denise Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSix Before the Name\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical true crime investigation built from official public materials, court opinions, public-record correspondence, contemporary reporting, later investigative reporting, and attributed interviews. It reconstructs the victims' final known routes, the locations where they were found, the pattern that connected the cases, and the fear that spread through Washington as the series became publicly recognized.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book follows the reported telephone calls connected to Brenda Crockett's disappearance, the handwritten note associated with Brenda Woodard's case, the multi-agency task force, and the jurisdictional division between Washington, D.C., and Prince George's County, Maryland. It examines reported forensic similarities, clothing and trace evidence, biological material, vehicle leads, and publicly discussed suspect theories-without treating an investigative theory as a legal conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe surviving record is incomplete. Original autopsy reports, laboratory files, evidence inventories, recordings, photographs, and chains of custody are not uniformly available for public review. Rather than converting those gaps into certainty, this account distinguishes confirmed fact from reported information, allegation, interpretation, inference, and speculation. No uncharged person is presented as proven responsible, and no single theory is allowed to substitute for evidence tested in court.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its center, this is also a book about institutional memory and the human cost of an unresolved case. It explores how divided jurisdictions, missing or inaccessible records, later cold case reviews, public-record requests, renewed reporting, and family remembrance have shaped what can still be known more than half a century later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in a restrained, victim-centered narrative nonfiction style, \u003ci\u003eSix Before the Name\u003c\/i\u003e is for readers of cold case books, historical true crime, unsolved homicide investigations, Washington, D.C. crime history, forensic evidence, and public-record research. It offers a careful path through the known timeline, the disputed details, the investigative limits, and the questions that remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case has a famous name. This book returns first to the six people whose names should never have been lost behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Hartsfield\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798190310108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Daniel Hartsfield","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50666072867071,"sku":"9798190310108","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/six-before-the-name-daniel-hartsfield-9798190310108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}