Alayna Urquhart

With one detective declaring, it's the work of the same man, and there seems to be little doubt that the fellow has tried a double crime on a single night.

Which also is a little Jack the Ripper-y.

It is.

The double event.

Except with Jack the Ripper.

It wasn't really planned.

I won't go into it.

I don't think it was planned.

I think it was he fucked up and then he had to satisfy.

Yeah.

He's a completionist.

I think that's a widely held belief for sure.

I think so too.

But while the latest attack seemed to confirm the suspicions of many that it was the same man, it also elevated the story in the eyes of the press.

The Atlanta Journal expanded their coverage, and even their rivals, the Atlanta Constitution, who seemed to suck at all this, could no longer ignore the story, but that wasn't all.

News of the killer had also begun to spread to other states.

A few days later, papers from as far away as New York were reporting on, quote, Atlanta's Jack the Ripper, noting the inability of local investigators to stop the murders and the toll it was taking on the city's black community.

The New York Times reported, tonight there are a few black women on the street and black cooks and housemaids are refusing to work after dark in cases where they have any distance to go to their homes afterwards.

So while the national press coverage had an undeniably racist tone, it cemented two important things in the public's eye.

First, that there was a, quote, madman as methodical and cunning as Jack the Ripper operating in Atlanta's black community.