Alayna Urquhart

I'm sure.

Following Mayor Wynn's editorial defending the police, leaders in the black community intensified their efforts to protect themselves and their families and community, advocating for better protections, raising money that could be offered as a reward for information leading to an arrest.

Like actually doing the physical work.

How sad that they had to do that because nobody else would.

Nobody else would.

They probably would have done it anyways because they care about their community.

But they literally had to.

One announcement read, stay indoors and your lives will be saved.

For venturing out at night moans only to invite this monster's ravages.

And they were saying, like, you can't stay at work.

Yeah.

Now, by January 1912, the Atlanta Press was reporting that at least 15 women had been killed by the Ripper.

Wow.

Yet investigators were no closer to catching this person than they were one year earlier when Rosa Trice's body was discovered.

Worse yet, the murders continued almost as though they were on schedule.

Really?

In January, the body of Pearl Williams was discovered in a field adjacent to Chestnut and West Fair Streets, just a few blocks from her home.

That seems to be another thing.

And what the Atlantic Constitution said was dead from a ghastly wound in her throat.

Hmm.