Blood Echoes, Thomas H. Cook
Blood Echoes, Thomas H. Cook
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Blood Echoes
The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

Author: Thomas H. Cook

Narrator: Thomas H. Cook

Unabridged: 8 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2021


Synopsis

Edgar Award Finalist: A true-crime account of a vicious massacre and the legal battles that followed.

It was not a clever killing. On May 5, 1973, three men escaped from a Maryland prison and disappeared. Joined by a fifteen-year-old brother, they surfaced in Georgia, where they were spotted joyriding in a stolen car. Within a week, the four young men were arrested on suspicion of committing one of the most horrific murders in American history. Jerry Alday and his family were eating Sunday dinner when death burst through the door of their cozy little trailer. Their six bodies are only the beginning of Thomas H. Cook's retelling of this gruesome story; the horrors continued in the courtroom. Based on court documents, police records, and interviews with the surviving family members, this is a chilling look at the evil that can lurk just around the corner.

About Thomas H. Cook

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1947. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories. He received the best novel Edgar for The Chatham School Affair, the Martin Beck Award, the Herodotus Prize for best historical short story, and the Barry for best novel for Red Leaves, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joe on November 02, 2021

I've read about eight books by Thomas H. Cook in the last five years...he's a great writer and has become one of my all-time favorite authors...I plan on reading all his books, fiction & non-fiction. Blood Echoes is his fair and unbiased look at the Alday Mass Murder Case in the State of Georgia, 19......more

Goodreads review by ♥ Marlene♥ on April 23, 2015

Finished this book yesterday April 21 2015 and yes I liked it. Good writing and an interesting story. Oh my so sad. How terrible that the perpetrators of crimes are still even more than back then protected while their victims loved ones cannot protect themselves. For instance they are not allowed to sh......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on January 03, 2015

This book was quite sympathetic to members of the victim's family, and gave a sense of the loss they felt. Almost as harrowing as the murders themselves was the aftermath, where despite conviction and incarceration, one of the killers was able to continue inflicting pain on the family for years afte......more

Goodreads review by Stefanie on July 13, 2023

On May 14, 1973, three men escaped from the Maryland State Prison. Carl Isaacs, Wayne Coleman, and George Dungee picked up Billy Isaacs, the 15 year old brother of Carl, and took off to Florida. The group were travelling to Florida, when they came upon the Alday farm, located in Donalsonville, Georg......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on August 21, 2017

This was a good book about a terrible, terrible series of crimes and all the craziness that followed in the wake of the prison escape of a pair of morally questionable brothers and their 2 vulnerable sidekicks. The author manages to compress years and years of legal wrangling very well; he's never r......more