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Atlanta, 1911.

As the city grew into the "Gateway to the New South," a killer stalked its streets in the dark.

Young Black women began disappearing on their walks home from work. Their bodies were found near railroad tracks, vacant lots, and alleyways throughout the city. Their throats had been cut. Their cases received little attention.

Newspapers eventually gave the unknown offender a chilling nickname:

The Atlanta Ripper.

More than a century later, the murders remain unsolved.

In this episode of The Murder Mind: Crime Traveler, retired Atlanta homicide detective Vince Velazquez revisits one of America's earliest serial murder investigations. Drawing from his own experience working homicide in Atlanta, Vince examines the victims, the investigation, the witness accounts, and the failures that allowed a killer to vanish into history.

Who was the Atlanta Ripper?

How many women were truly victims?

And why did these murders go unsolved?

Subscribe for new episodes of Crime Traveler, where we revisit homicide investigations from across America and explore how detectives worked to solve them.