Alayna Urquhart
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Mary had left the home of her employer the evening before after a long day of work, but she never arrived home that night.
The next morning when her sister realized that she hadn't returned, she set out to look for her, but she didn't have to look far.
Mary's body was discovered in an unused field just 25 yards from her home.
Her throat had been cut with what the press described as, quote, a jagged edge.
But there was no additional clues as to who killed her.
A coroner's inquest was held the next day, but without any evidence or information about her death, nothing really came of it.
Investigators and community members barely had time to react or even respond to Mary Bell Walker's death when the killer had struck again.
On June 15th, the body of Addie Watts was discovered by the Southern Railway.
Her skull was bashed in first with a brick, then with a railroad coupling pin.
As in many of the other cases, two local men were arrested for the murder, but both were let go a short time later because there was just lack of evidence connecting them to the crime.
Now, it's important to note that despite several murders that could be attributed to the same killer, the...
The Atlanta press was, and again, at this time of high racial tensions, white-owned, white-controlled, they had yet to address the murders in any meaningful way.
Despite the fact that, like, it seems like this is a serial killer.
Shocking from where we sit today, but, like, sadly not shocking for the time period.