Dr. Jeffery Wells, author of 2011′s “The Atlanta Ripper: The Unsolved Case of the Gate City’s Most Infamous Murders,” the definitive book about the crimes, talks with ATLVault.  Read part one in our three-part series on our city's very first serial killer, the Atlanta Ripper: https://bit.ly/3XgLcyD

The two political candidates couldn’t have been more different. One man, descending from a family line of Baptist ministers and championing the values of temperance and chastity, promised law and order. The other belonged to a political party thriving on social disorder and looser interpretations of the laws regarding recreational pursuits.Such a scenario could be easily imagined in any modern election, but it was exactly the case 175 years ago, when the newly renamed and incorporated city of Atlanta held its first mayoral election.