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The Fall Line: True Crime

The Atlanta Ripper: Part 3

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The final 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, JV Hampton Van-Sant for voice acting, and Shannon Geary for months of archival research. Thanks to Alvin Williams of Affirmative Murder podcast, and Josh Hallmark of True Crime BS. You can buy Jeff Wells' book, The Atlanta Ripper, on Amazon or anywhere you shop. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Your teenager just raided the fridge and walked out the back door.

0:06.0

He yelled something over his shoulder that you only have heard.

0:10.0

This is the last time you've seen him.

0:13.0

You try to remember those words to help the police find him, but you can't.

0:19.0

What if your daughter disappeared? Your mother, your son?

0:23.0

What if years have passed and you're no closer to finding them?

0:27.0

When a person disappears, the story doesn't stop there, especially for families.

0:32.0

Each week, missing brings you stories of missing persons and justice

0:36.0

sourced from the case file of the nonprofit private investigations for the missing.

0:41.0

Together, we help raise awareness, elicit tips, and put pressure on police to keep searching.

0:47.0

Listeners say missing is the most binge-worthy podcast of all time.

0:51.0

Search missing wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:53.0

Missing where mysteries have a mission.

0:58.0

This is the third episode in a three-part series covering the crimes attributed to the Atlanta Ripper,

1:05.0

a person or persons who targeted black women in Atlanta, Georgia for at least three years.

1:10.0

Please listen to the first two episodes before completing the series.

1:14.0

There is discussion of graphic violence in this episode, so listen or discretion is advised.

1:21.0

This is the fall line.

1:38.0

I venture to prophecy that you will again have trouble from the very same men who gave you trouble

1:50.0

before.

1:53.0

Jefferson Franklin Long, Georgian, and the first African-American elected to the US House of Representatives,

2:00.0

1871.

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