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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Atlanta Ripper: Part 1

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The first episode in our three-part series covering the historical Atlanta Ripper murders, a little-known series of homicides attributed to a person--or persons--operating in Atlanta, GA between 1911-1914. . . and possibly beyond. Thanks to Dionne Clark of the SAGE Podcast for reading the epigraphs at the top of each episode (her first episode was delayed due to the pandemic, but it's coming soon!), JV Hampton Van-Sant for voice acting, and Shannon Geary for months of archival research. You can buy Jeff Wells' book, The Atlanta Ripper, on Amazon or anywhere you shop. 

The Fall Line® is an investigative true crime podcast focused on cold cases, unsolved murders, missing persons, and unidentified John and Jane Does in the United States. We deliver in-depth reporting and interviews with law enforcement and forensic experts, examining unsolved homicides, disappearances, serial crimes, and the evidence behind them. Victim-centered and research-driven, we focus on cases still seeking answers.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:18.0

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0:24.0

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0:44.0

Your restrictions in terms of life. Please note, there's discussion of graphic violence in this episode.

0:49.0

Listener discretion is advised. This is the first in a two-part series covering the crimes attributed to the Atlanta Ripper, a person or persons who targeted black women in Atlanta, Georgia for at least three years.

1:03.0

This historical series begins in 1911, just five years after the so-called Atlanta race riots, a multi-day, genocidal assault on black Atlantans that included at least 25 murders, hundreds of assaults, arrests, arrests.

1:18.0

Arsene, disarming and widespread destruction. Some historical sources used use outdated language that has been omitted where possible, but has occasionally been preserved in order to provide accurate quotes as read by modern voice actors.

1:35.0

The Atlanta Ripper series was written and recorded in late 2019 and early 2020. Some details regarding Atlanta monuments may change.

1:48.0

This is the fall line.

2:03.0

Out of the north, yet north south, lies the city of a hundred hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future.

2:18.0

I have seen her in the morning when the first flush of day had half roused her. She lay gray and steel on the crimson soil of Georgia.

2:29.0

From W.E.B. Du Bois, the souls of black folk.

2:34.0

The city and a forest, terminus, gate city, Martha'sville, Thrasherville, Atlanta of the Atlantic Railroad, the end of everything.

2:46.0

The city's seal is a phoenix. Resurgents or rise again, the motto. From the ashes.

2:55.0

Everyone knows that Atlanta burned, but which city was destroyed and what was built in its place.

3:03.0

A single street can be a multiverse, depending on who you ask or who's writing the history.

3:09.0

In 1911, a peace monument was erected in Atlanta's largest park. According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, it was designed by a sculptor from New York and paid for by the old guard of the gate city.

3:24.0

That organization was, per its own historical website, established in the late 1850s as part of the Georgia militia, quote,

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