Brothers in Blood
by Clark Howard
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A "gripping, emotionally charged" account of a brutal crime committed by escaped prisoners from an Edgar Award-winning author (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In 1973, six members of the Alday family were brutally murdered in their home in Donalsonville, Georgia, by fugitives who escaped from a Maryland prison and broke in to the Alday's house. Two of the escapees were brothers, and they picked up another one of their siblings, only fifteen years old, along the way. The governor at the show more time--future president Jimmy Carter--called it "the most heinous crime in Georgia." This true account looks at the entire story: not only the unspeakable massacre and its aftermath, but the horrifying backstories and motives of the various perpetrators--one of whom would finally be executed thirty years later. show lessTags
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One of the best true crime books I've ever read. The author desribes each character so well that you feel as if you really know them. Although parts of this account are disturbing, in reference to the crimes that were visited on an innocent family, especially Mary Alday, it kept me glued to the page at every turn. If you're a fan of true crime stories, this one is a must.
there seems an implicit angle here that the institutionalized, unrehabilitated and brutalized foster children were let down by the society they preyed on. After revealing the full and senselessness of their rape-murders, any sympathy is hard. the author brings in the biographies of the criminals and their victims. Jumping around from the the post - crime lam to the pre-crime childhood, etc. is just a pointless dramatic history like writing a screenplay, not history
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1983
- People/Characters
- Carl Isaacs; Billy Isaacs; Wayne Coleman; George Dungee; Ned Alday; Jimmy Alday (show all 10); Jerry Alday; Chester Alday; Aubrey Alday; Mary Alday
- Important places
- Maryland State Prison; Donalsonville, Georgia
- Important events
- Alday Family murders May 14, 1973
- Related movies
- Murder One (1988)
- Dedication
- "Once again to Alex Jackson, my friend first, and then my agent."
- First words
- Billy, the youngest of the four, started crying shortly after they left Seminole County.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And in which a young man named Jimmy has found some woods in which to cook himself a wild breakfast on the bank of a river, very early on one of God's new mornings.
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
- DDC/MDS
- 364.1 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses
- LCC
- HV6533 .G4 .H68 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 32
- Popularity
- 877,864
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (4.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 1
