Alayna Urquhart

And second, that investigators seemed either uninterested or completely incapable of doing literally anything to stop it.

And in truth, the murders were hardly ingenious or cunning.

Like that's, they're not like, like...

Jack the Ripper is not ingenious or kind.

He's pretty cunning.

He's kind of like in pretty quick and pretty like does it under the cover of darkness and all that.

This really wasn't that.

Atlanta's white police force didn't prioritize solving violent crimes when they were committed against non-white people.

That's just the way it is.

Fortunately, the expanded press coverage did put some pressure on investigators, though, to the extent that a serious effort was mounted to identify and catch the killer before he could kill again.

Okay.

Not because they felt like it was like morally something that they should do, but because they felt presser from now the national press.

Right.

Kind of roasting them for it.

Unfortunately, he would take several more lives before this killing spree came to an end.

Within a few days, investigators had developed a basic profile for the man they believed to be the killer, but were careful not to attribute all the women killed in Atlanta that year to the Ripper.

Uh-huh.

Coroner Paul Donahue told reporters, while a number of black women have been killed in the city, the work of the Ripper seems unmistakable.

According to Paul, a peculiarity concerning the crimes is that all of his victims have met their deaths on a Saturday night.

Interesting.