Alayna Urquhart
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And in fact, while the deaths were clearly described and investigated as murders...
The papers rarely gave more than a few lines to the stories, offered little or no follow-up, and in some cases, didn't even bother to find out the name of the victim.
Now, while the concept of a serial killer was still not quite defined at all in the minds of most Americans.
The public had come to understand that it was entirely possible for one person to be responsible for seemingly random murders.
Like that was becoming a thing that people were like, oh, fuck.
But throughout late 1910 and 1911, few, if any, public figures or institutions had voiced any concern that such a thing could be happening in Atlanta's black community, despite the fact that it clearly was.
And that's all they need is something like to be informed.