Brothers in Blood

The True Account of the Georgia Massacre

• Author(s): Clark Howard,
• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Pages: 398
• ISBN_10: 1504062019
  ISBN_13: 9781504062015
  
• Language: en
• Categories: True Crime / Murder / Mass Murder , True Crime / Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons , True Crime / Sexual Assault , History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) ,

Description:... 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 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.