Carol Denise Spinks was a vibrant 13 year old student at Johnson Junior High School, wrapping up her 7th grade year. She was better known as” Bay-Bay” to her twin sister as well as her three sisters and three brothers. Carol and her siblings grew up in Congress Heights in Washington, D.C. and loved playing jacks and spinning a Hula Hoop.
On the evening of April 25, 1971, Carol walked to buy groceries at a 7-Eleven located a half-mile away from her home, just across the border in Maryland.
On her way home from the store, Carol went missing. The community began an extensive search looking for Carol, police dogs were brought in and could track her scent, but would lose it. Six days later Carol’s body was located behind St. Elizabeths Hospital on a grassy embankment next to the northbound lanes of I-295, about 1,500 feet south of Suitland Parkway according to police records.
Carol’s autopsy revealed she had been both physically and sexually assaulted. She was then strangled and the killer kept her body for two to three days before leaving Carol Denise Spinks behind St. Elizabeths Hospital on a grassy embankment. When discovered she was wearing the clothes she went missing in; a red sweater, blue shorts brown socks, but her blue tennis shoes were missing.
Carol is the first of six African American girls that would be abducted and killed over a 17 month period. There is currently a $150,000 reward offered
If you have any information regarding to the abduction and murders of Carol Spinks, Darlenia Johnson, Brenda Crockett, Nenomoshia Yates, Brenda Woodard or Diane Williams please call Metro Police at 202-727-9099 or send an email to unsolved.murder@dc.gov.
Carol Denise Spinks went for an errand and she didn’t come home.
She Didn’t Come Home 
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