E6: Black or White

Catlick

B.T. Harman

History

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Local authorities arrive at a scene so gruesome, one paper calls it, "the most atrocious murder...in the history of the city."

Police respond with cryptic statements, followed by an aggressive dragnet targeting local black men.

Meanwhile, black clergy take drastic measures to protect their women, and a publication thousands of miles from Atlanta proposes a radical new theory about the killer's identity.

Months Covered in This Episode: 11-12 (of 56)

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0:00.0	Hey there, Catluck fans, BT here. First off, thanks for listening. Super glad you're here.
0:05.9	Second, this episode begins with one of the most violent and graphic parts of our story yet. So
0:11.7	just kind of giving you a heads up. If you want to opt out, feel free to skip forward a few minutes,
0:16.6	and you should be good. Cheers.
0:20.6	By late November, autumn had fully settled in Atlanta.
0:24.8	The last colors of fall clung to the trees around the South's lively railroad town.
0:29.9	The morning of Tuesday, November 21st, was a chilly one, about 40 degrees.
0:34.9	Thanksgiving Day was about a week away.
0:40.0	At the Atlanta police headquarters that morning, we know that police captain Mayo and acting police chiefs Starnes were on duty.
0:45.1	On this sleepy Tuesday, the officers sipped their coffee as they scanned the day's headlines.
0:50.0	The Constitution ran a front page story about a big rally happening later that night in downtown
0:55.0	Atlanta. The featured guest would be Joe Brown, a guy running for governor. They didn't know it,
1:01.0	but their morning was about to take a dramatic turn. Around 8 a.m., a call came into the precinct.
1:08.6	An older black woman was on the other end of the line.
1:11.3	She was obviously disturbed.
1:13.4	Through a shaking voice,
1:14.8	she explained that her two children discovered
1:16.6	a horrific scene near their home,
1:18.7	near Stewart Avenue.
1:20.9	Mayo and Starns grabbed their jackets
1:22.4	and raced out the back door of the police station.
1:25.0	They fired up two of APD's
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