180: The Alday Family Massacre

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Southern Fried true crime covers cases that
are not suitable for young listeners, and

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there may also be some explicit language
used. Today's case involves sexual assault.

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Listener discretion is strongly advised. On
November fifteenth of nineteen fifty nine, four

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members of the Clutter family of Holcombe, Kansas were murdered in cold blood.

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Herb and Bonnie Clutter were in their
late forties and their children were just teenagers,

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a sixteen year old daughter named Nancy
and a fifteen year old son named

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Kenyon. They were killed by two
ex convicts, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock.

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Six years later in nineteen sixty five, Both killers were executed by hanging.

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The year after that, in nineteen
sixty six, Truman Capote published his

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groundbreaking novel In Cold Blood, which
began a new true crime genre, one

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that was much more respected than the
salacious detective magazines born of the earlier penny

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dreadfuls from centuries before, and Capodi
had found the perfect subject. The Clutter

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family massacre shocked the nation. The
Clutters were the epitome of nineteen fifties innocence.

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They were farmers, pillars of the
church, and good people beloved by

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their community, well off but not
conspicuously wealthy, and their deaths were just

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so senseless the innocence was shattered.
Perry Smith had heard a rumor from a

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former cellmate that Herb Clutter kept large
amounts of cash in his home, but

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Herb didn't. Angry when they discovered
there was no money or real valuables on

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the property, Smith and Hincock executed
the Clutter family rather than leave any witnesses,

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and for what reason. There was
no DNA testing, no fingerprint and

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database. Perry and Richard could have
walked off into the sunset with no one

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the wiser, but they didn't.
They chose to massacre a family simply because

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they could. This seems like an
unlikely event, an anomaly, a series

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of unfortunate events that led to the
unwarranted deaths of an entire Midwestern family.

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But fourteen years later, in nineteen
seventy three, history would repeat itself.

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Fifty years ago, the South experienced
its own horrific family massacre, committed in

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cold blood. Welcome to Episode one
eighty the All Day Family Massacre. Seminole

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County is located in the southwest corner
of Georgia, just fifteen from the Florida

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border. It's a rural area with
lots of trees, dirt roads, and

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farmland. Back in nineteen seventy,
Seminole County's population was about seven thousand people,

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and most of them lived in Seminole's
largest city, Donaldsonville, which had

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a population of just under three thousand. On May fourteenth, nineteen seventy three,

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it was a particularly beautiful day in
Seminole County. Sunny, warm,

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not a cloud in the sky.
The grass seemed especially green, the bird

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song was especially pretty. An idyllic
spring day, the perfect kind of day

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for farming, which was great news
for the many farmers in the county,

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including the all Day family. The
all Days were one of the most prominent

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farming families in Seminole County. They
had a five hundred and twenty five acre

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farm just outside Donaldsonville. They grew
peanuts, corn, and other crop along

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with raising livestock. The family was
well respected by the community. Everyone said

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the all Days were neighborly, warm
and friendly. Even the Seminole County tax

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collector, who was, for obvious
reasons, probably not everyone's favorite person,

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but he really liked the all Days. He told the Rome News Tribune that

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the all Days were just plain good
folks without an enemy in the world.

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The heads of the all Day family
were sixty two year old Ned and his

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fifty nine year old wife, Ernestine. They were both born and raised in

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Seminole County. It's likely they knew
each other their whole lives. They married

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on September first, nineteen thirty five, when Ernestine was twenty one years old

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and Ned was just a week shy
of twenty five. They had five children

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together, four sons and one daughter, and on this gorgeous day of May

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fourteenth, at least three of Ned
and ernest sons were working on the farm,

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thirty five year old Jerry, thirty
two year old Chester, and twenty

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five year old Jimmy. Jerry was
plowing the field while Jimmy and Chester planet

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seed corn behind him. The all
Days needed the crops to grow well so

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they could feed their some two thousand
hogs. Ned's younger brother, fifty seven

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year old Aubrey all Day, was
also helping, and Ned himself was there

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too, but after developing arthritis,
he wasn't as hands on as he used

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to be. He had begun letting
his sons do the heavy lifting. Later,

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his wife Ernestine would tell the Albany
Herald that Ned was extremely close with

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his sons. They did everything together. It's not surprising that he still wanted

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to help with the farm even when
he probably didn't have to. He was

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proud of his sons and enjoyed working
with them as farmers. Their days started

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long before sun up. Lunchtime rolled
around at twelve thirty. They were plenty

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hungry. The men filed into Ned
and Ernestine's beautiful house, which Ned had

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built with his own two hands almost
thirty years before. They sat at the

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large family dining room table and they
ate the hearty spread that Ernestine had spent

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the morning preparing for them. After
a quick rest, the farmers returned to

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the fields, but shortly after they
ran into an issue. Jerry's John Dear

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tractor was stuck in a bog.
He had thought the land was dry enough

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to plow, but as soon as
his tires hit the mud, he realized

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his mistake. Ned grabbed his jeep
to pull the tractor out of the bog,

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but it didn't work. Trying to
find a solution, Ned and Jerry

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decided to go get Jerry's truck from
his house. Conveniently, Jerry also lived

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on the all Day farm. He
and his younger wife, twenty six year

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old Mary Campbell all Day, had
a home on the property. It was

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about a quarter mile from the main
house where Ned and Ernestine lived. Jerry's

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mobile home had two bedrooms, one
at the north end and one at the

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south end, and between the bedrooms
was a living area and a small kitchen.

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It was a good setup. A
few of Jerry's brothers also lived in

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different mobile homes scattered throughout the all
Day property. They all loved being near

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their family, and of course it
was convenient because they all worked on the

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family farm. Plus, if Jerry
and Mary ever felt like they needed more

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space or just felt like breaking bread
with family, they could just head up

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the road to Ned and Ernestine's house. Jerry's home wasn't that far away from

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the cornfields either. It was only
a few hundred yards. You could almost

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see his mobile home from where the
tractor was maroon. The only thing in

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the way was a large strand of
trees blocking the view. But even though

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it was pretty close by, it
was quicker to hop in the jeep than

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to walk there, so Jerry and
Ned headed over to the mobile home at

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about four pm, but they never
returned. As the minutes passed, the

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remaining men, Jimmy, Chester and
Aubrey were baffled. It shouldn't take this

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long to get the truck. Where
were Ned and Jerry. Jimmy volunteered to

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go check on his brother and father, so he headed towards Jerry's house,

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but Jimmy never returned either. Now
Chester and Aubrey were starting to get worried

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what was going on. Just like
the others, they went to Jerry's house,

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and just like the others, they
were never seen again. By sunset.

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Ned's wife, Ernestine, was also
worried the men were usually home.

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By now Chester's wife, Barbara,
offered to check Jerry's house just in case

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the men were there. When Barbara
arrived at the mobile home, she knocked

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on the door, but no one
answered. Looking around and seeing that there

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were no cars, Barbara figured that
no one was inside Jerry's home, so

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she left. At this point,
the remaining all days knew something was up.

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Five people were unaccounted for. They
called the sheriff's office, the state

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patrol, and the hospital, but
to no avail. No one knew where

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the all Day men were. The
next day, at two twenty a m.

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Ned's youngest brother, fifty two year
old Everett all Day, known as

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Bud, tried to begin his work
day on the all Day farm, but

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he couldn't. His brothers Ned and
Aubrey, and his nephews Jimmy, Chester

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and Jerry should have been there to
help, but they weren't. Confused,

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Bud spoke with his sister in law, Ned's wife, Ernestine, the men

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had disappeared. She said no one
knew where they were. Ernestine, who

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had been so worried she was probably
a bit of shock, now, asked

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Bud to call the sheriff for her, and then Bud made his way to

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Jerry's house. He knocked on the
door, but there was no answer.

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He decided to try and see through
one of Jerry's windows, and that's when

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he saw legs hanging from the side
of a bed. The legs were arranged

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awkwardly and were oddly Still unaware of
the situation, Bud entered the mobile home's

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kitchen through the back door and that's
when he saw it. Beer cans were

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scattered on the kitchen table. Now
Bud was certain something was wrong. The

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all Day Men were all devout Christians. In fact, all three sons,

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Jimmy, Chester, and Jerry were
deacons at the local church. None of

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them drank alcohol. At this point, Bud probably suspected what he was going

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to find as he looked around Jerry's
mobile home, but I'm sure that didn't

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lessen the shock or his grief as
Bud discovered that all five all Day Men

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had been shot to death in Jerry's
home. I'm going to pause now for

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a short commercial break. Early in
the morning of May fifteenth, nineteen seventy

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three, Bud all Day had found
the dead bodies of his two brothers and

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three nephews strown throughout Jerry all Day's
mobile home. In the south bedroom was

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thirty five year old Jerry and fifty
seven year old Aubrey, and the north

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bedroom was thirty seven year old Chester
and his father, sixty two year old

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Ned. And on the living room
couch was the youngest all Day brother,

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twenty five year old Jimmy. All
five men had been shot in the back

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of the head, execution style.
Some of them had been shot several times.

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Ned had clearly taken the worst of
it. Later, the Seminole County

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Corner confirmed that Ned was shot seven
times. He commented that you could cover

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the bullet holes with a half dollar. The local county authorities consisted of one

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sheriff and one deputy sheriff. They
both arrived on the scene. They looked

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around for a while and determined that
this mass murderer wasn't a robbery. While

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the kitchen cabinets were opened, nothing
was actually missing, so the officers assumed

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the attack was targeted. Why else
would anyone kill five people from the same

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family. Clearly this was the work
of someone who wanted to deliberately hurt the

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all Days. And as if things
couldn't get any worse, the all Day

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family still had another problem. Where
was Jerry's wife, twenty six year old

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Mary Estelle all day? Her car
wasn't there, and if she had arrived

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home from work the previous day,
she would have seen the bodies and told

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someone immediately. The officers knew that
Mary must have been kidnapped or worse.

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Right away, the police put the
word out asking everyone to look out for

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Mary's car, a blue and white
nineteen seventy Chevrolet, but just a few

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hours later they found Mary's body.
She was in the field of a neighboring

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farm about six miles away. She
had been shot in the same manner as

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the other All Days execution style,
in the back of her head. She

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had also been shot in the back
of the shoulder. Mary's body was nude

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and her breasts were mutilated. It
was clear that she had been sexually assaulted

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and tortured. Hours after the All
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the front page headline of the local
paper read family of six discovered slain near

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Donaldsonville and that's how. Less than
a day after it happened, everyone in

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Seminole County knew that the highly respected
all Day family had been massacred, and

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they were outraged. Upon hearing the
tragic news, hundreds of people swarmed the

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All Day property to express their genuine
concern and to get a look at the

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gruesome crime scene. People became worried
about their own family safety, and as

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a result, gun sales in Seminole
County skyrocketed. One resident told the Albany

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Herald things like this just don't happen
here. This is something that happens in

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the wild West in Chicago, he
said. The next day, on May

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sixteenth, was the all Day family
funeral. It was the largest funeral that

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Southwest Georgia had ever seen. The
city of Donaldsonville closed all businesses. Over

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two thousand, five hundred people attended, including some big names like the State

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Agriculture command missioner and the chairman of
the State Board of Transportation, and Rosalind

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Carter, wife of Jimmy Carter,
who was the current Governor of Georgia.

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He would become president four years later
in nineteen seventy seven. Unfortunately, Mary

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all Day's mother, whose name was
IDAs Campbell, couldn't attend. After hearing

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what had happened to her daughter,
Missus Campbell became extremely ill. The next

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day, she died of a heart
attack in coal Quit, Georgia. Her

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physician told the Albany Herald that complications
arising from Missus Campbell's diabetic condition and grief

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over her daughter's slaying probably caused her
death. Officials agreed that this was by

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far the worst crime Georgia had ever
seen, and at first the police were

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at a loss. They had no
leads, no suspects, and no plausible

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explanation. Everyone loved the Day family
for real, literally everyone loved them.

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On May sixteenth, the Albany Herald
published an article entitled Couldn't think of nobody

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disliking Them. It was titled after
a local resident emphatically said that he couldn't

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think of nobody disliking the all Day
family. The article called the all Days

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a quiet, clean, living family
and said this slaughtering left their community an

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enraged shock. The all Days were
sturdy, farming folk who kept their heads

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down and went to church every Sunday. Salt of the earth. People who

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would do such a thing to such
kind, hard working people. Police only

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had two pieces of evidence. First, there was one witness who thought they

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saw a group of strange hippie type
men following Mary as she came home from

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work. This turned out to be
a red herring. Remember this would have

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been less than a year after the
Man's and murders and also the McDonald family

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murders that Jeffrey McDonald was still blaming
on a roving band of killer hippies.

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But the police's second piece of evidence
had merit, and that was a green

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car that had been discovered in the
woods near Mary's body. The police tracked

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the car back to nineteen year old
Richard Wayne Miller. But Richard hadn't had

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any part in the killing of the
all Day family. Actually, it was

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the exact opposite, because Richard Miller
was a victim two. Richard Miller was

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born in March nineteen four in Mcconnellsburg, Pennsylvania. In his teen years,

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he was described as an all American
country boy. He was a good student

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and a member of the Future Farmers
of America. He worked at the local

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Exelling gas station, and on May
tenth, nineteen seventy three, he was

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only three days away from his high
school graduation. But he would never graduate

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high school because that day, nineteen
year old Richard traveled from his rural home

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in Flintstone, Maryland, to the
nearby town of Mcconnellsburg. While in Mcconnellsburg,

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he bought some new parts for his
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he saw something unusual. It was
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side of Patterson Run Road in Pennsylvania. Richard saw four men gathered around the

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cab of the truck, but none
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the men around Lawrence's truck were white
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black man wore thick, dark rimmed
glasses. Another local had spotted the broken

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down truck too. Her name was
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was suspicious that Lawrence wasn't with his
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H. Cook, Deborah and Richard
turned aner and pulled over together. Richard

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got out of his car and asked
Deborah if she knew why those guys had

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Lawrence's truck. She didn't. Richard
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around and watch the guys for a
bit see what they did. If they

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drove off with Lawrence's car. Richard
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Then Richard returned to his car and
repositioned it so that he could better

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watch the men and the truck.
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Richard told the men to return Lawrence's
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and in response, the four men
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into his own car. Then the
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They made Richard drive to a sign
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they robbed him, took his car
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the back of the head close range. Riley Miller. Richard's father followed a

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Seminole County investigators realized that Richard Miller's
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they knew exactly who their killers were. Thirty five year old George Elder

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Dungee, twenty six year old Wayne
Carl Coleman, nineteen year old Carl Junior

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Isaacs, and fifteen year old William
Billy Carrol Isaacs, George, Wayne and

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Carl had escaped from prison just a
few days before. They were all serving

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time at a minimum security prison near
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Poplar Hill Correctional Institute. George was
serving eighteen months for contempt of court,

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Wayne was doing ten years for burglary, and Carl was also doing four for

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burglary. Carl and Wayne had actually
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The two men were half brothers.
Their mom, Betty Isaacs, had

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had Wayne during her first marriage and
then Carl and Billy during her second.

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But even though Carl and Wayne knew
each other a little, they weren't friends.

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They had a really rough time growing
up absent parents, homelessness, ten

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additional siblings, which makes for a
total of twelve, multiple foster care homes,

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and so on, lots of trauma
and very little love. Certainly not

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the kind of childhood where you keep
in touch with your double digit number of

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siblings, but Carl did keep up
with Billy, his younger brother. Their

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mother, Betty later told the Associated
Press that her sons were truants and delinquents.

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She said, there may be some
who have criticized us for what our

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children have apparently done but they don't
know what we had to live with.

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Another family member confirmed Betty sentiments,
saying the three men were just plain mean.

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Carl was originally placed in a maximum
security prison to serve his four years

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for breaking into and robbing a car, but two days after Karl arrived at

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the prison, a riot broke out. While the guards were incapacitated, Karl

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was repeatedly raped. I'm not excusing
his later actions, but between his upbringing

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and this trauma, you can see
the makings of a psychopath. After the

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riot ended and Karl received medical attention, he was transferred to a minimum security

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facility, the Poplar Hill Correctional Institute, and to his surprise, his half

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brother Wayne was already there, and
Wayne introduced Karl to his friend, a

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black man from Baltimore named George Dungee, although Karl did not like that George

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was black. The three men ultimately
decided to escape together, but since this

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was a minimum security prison often referred
to as a work camp, their escape

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wasn't some brilliant plan. They just
walked off the premises around three am and

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went on their merry way. The
next day, the three men picked up

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Carl's brother and Wayne's half brother,
fifteen year old Billy. Isaac's Billy was

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staying at their mother, Betty's house
in Baltimore County. Betty remembered how her

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sons nearly ran her over while picking
up Billy. They did not apologize or

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stop the car. From there,
the four men started a violent crime spree

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down the eastern coast of the United
States. Some sources say that they were

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making their way to Florida, while
others say Mexico. We're not sure,

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but one thing is for certain.
George, Wayne, Carl and Billie were

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on a tear and no one was
going to stop them. The four men

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robbed at least two homes in Maryland
and Pennsylvania, stole a large number of

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cars, and coerced several people into
coming with them, including some juveniles,

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though no details are available about them. At one point, two young women

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were traveling with the four men,
seemingly of their own free will. When

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the men decided they were sick of
the women, they abandoned them in Pennsylvania.

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Not long after that, the four
men stole Richard Miller's car and killed

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him. Next, they proceeded to
rob stores as they went down the East

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coast. Later, Carl would claim
that they murdered at least two other people

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and raped at least one additional woman
along the way, but those crimes were

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never confirmed, and at some point
the four men gained at least three handguns.

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All of this led to the afternoon
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George, Wayne, Carl, and
Billie were still in Richard Miller's car

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and they needed gas badly. They
spotted Jerry all Day's mobile home from the

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road and thought they saw a gas
pump behind it, so they stopped to

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take a look around. After realizing
there was no gas pump, they noticed

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that the mobile home was empty,
so they decided to rob it. George

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and Billy stayed in the car while
Carl and Wayne went inside the mobile home,

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and that's when Billy spotted two men
coming toward the property in a blue

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jeep. It was sixty two year
old Ned all Day and his son,

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thirty five year old Jerry all Day, if you'll remember, They were headed

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to Jerry's home to grab his truck. They needed it to dislodge their tractor,

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which was stuck in a muddy area
of their cornfield. Billy ran inside

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to warn Carl and Wayne about the
approaching men, and shortly after Ned and

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Jerry parked their jeep in front of
the mobile home. They had surely spotted

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the mysterious green car out front,
but they probably never imagined that they were

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being robbed. They luckily thought it
was a neighbor in their friendly small town

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until eighteen year old Carl walked out
with a gun. Carl approached the jeep

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with his gun pulled out, then
he led Ned and Jerry to the mobile

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home at gunpoint. The four men
made Ned and Jerry empty their pockets,

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as Carl stole Jerry's penknife, wallet, and some change and a cigarette lighter.

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He started talking to Jerry. Carl
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Jerry said yes, and she would
be home from work soon. He

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begged Karl not to hurt her.
Then Karl took Jerry to the south bedroom,

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made him lae face down, and
shot him four times in the head.

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At the same time, Wayne took
Ned to the north bedroom. He

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also made Ned lie down and then
shot Ned several times in the back and

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head. Apparently Ned's body kept moving
when Carl came in to see what was

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taking Wayne so long, he ended
up shooting Ned a few times as well,

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which was why Ned was shot seven
times. Next, twenty five year

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old Jimmy all Day arrived. He
was driving a John Dear tractor. It's

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not clear, but it might have
been the tractor that was stuck. Maybe

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Jimmy, Chester and Aubrey had somehow
gotten it free. Regardless, Jimmy walked

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up, having no idea what was
waiting for him inside, and knocked on

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the mobile home's back door. Wayne
answered it while pointing his gun directly in

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Jimmy's face. Then Wayne forced Jimmy
to come inside and take off his green

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coveralls, sunglasses, and hat.
Then they positioned Jimmy faced down on the

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living room sofa, and Carl shot
and killed Jimmy with several shots to the

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back of his head. At this
point, Carl noticed that Jimmy's tractor was

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blocking their car, so he went
outside to move the tractor. As he

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moved the tractor, Carl watched twenty
six year old Mary all Day come home

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and her car. After Mary parked, Carl grabbed her and forced her into

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the mobile home's kitchen. Then the
criminals took Mary's purse, and emptied it

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out. It contained car keys and
a dollar bill. The men took both

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while the four men were looking through
Mary's purse. Two more all Days came

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to the mobile home. This time
it was fifty seven year old Aubrey all

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Day and thirty two year old Chester
all Day. They drove up in a

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green pickup and the criminals repeated their
process. Carl and Billy went outside to

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confront the two new men. They
walked along both sides of the pickup with

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their guns drawn and forced Aubrey and
Chester inside. Before Chester and Aubrey came

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inside, the murderers forced Mary into
the bathroom. It suspected that this was

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a misguided attempt to shield Mary,
a delicate woman, from the horrors that

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were to come, as if Mary
hadn't already been thoroughly terrorized, and as

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if she wasn't about to go through
much worse. After hiding Mary away,

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the men took Chester to the north
bedroom, and that's where Wayne shot Chester

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wants in the back of the head. At the same time, Carl took

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Aubrey to the south bedroom. Carl
tried to shoot Aubrey, but his gun

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was only making loud clicking noises.
He realized it was out of bullets,

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so he ran to the kitchen,
grabbed a different handgun, and went back

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into the bedroom. Then Carl shot
Aubrey twice in the back of the head.

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According to court testimony, after Carl
killed Aubrey, he came out of

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the bedroom laughing. Billy asked Carl
what was so funny, and Carl replied

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murdering five people, Carl and Wayne sexually

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assaulted Mary on the kitchen table.
Then Mary was redressed, bound and blindfolded.

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The four men robbed the mobile home
of any valuables, and then they

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left, taking Mary with them.
They drove both richard stolen car and Mary's

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now stolen car to an isolated forested
area six miles away. Once there,

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Carl tried to force Mary to perform
oral sex, but Mary fought back.

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In response, Karl beat her unconscious, mutilated her breasts, and raped her.

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Then Karl handed Wayne the gun so
he could kill Mary, but then

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George asked the group what about me. Wayne shrugged and handed the gun to

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George. George forced Mary to walk
a short distance away, raped her,

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and then shot her twice from behind. George went to shoot Mary a third

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time, but the others said that's
enough. Then George stole Mary's tome X

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watch and put it in his pocket. Following the execution of five men and

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the brutal gang rape and murder of
Mary, the four men all packed into

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Mary's Chevrolet. They left Richard's car
behind. According to Blood Echoes by Thomas

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H. Cook, the men thought
something might have been wrong with Richard's car

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it kept going through gas so quickly, and that would make sense given that

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Chard was buying auto parts for his
car before he was killed, and it's

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likely that Mary's car had more gas
for the four men to use, since

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their desire to find a gas pump
was what started this whole mess. No

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matter the reason that they left Richard's
car behind, they did, and it

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was the key piece of evidence that
the detectives needed to identify these four men

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as the cold blooded killers who had
murdered six members of the esteemed all Day

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family. Only three days after the
all Day family mass murder, the police

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knew exactly who did it thanks to
Richard Miller's car, George Dungee, Wayne

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Coleman, Carl Isaacs, and Billy
Isaacs. Their mugshots were printed on the

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front page of every newspaper in the
area. The police were out for blood,

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especially the Seminole County officials. They
had known the all Days for years.

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These killings, perhaps more than any
other crime in Seminole County, felt

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very personal. The sheriff told the
Albany Herald quote, if I'd had my

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way about it, I'd have a
large oven and I'd precook them for several

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days, just keep them alive and
let them punish. And I don't think

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that would satisfy me. The acts
of these men are lower than animals.

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If a citizen gets out of hand
and starts shooting people up, there's only

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one way to arrest, and that's
with a shotgun. I could throw the

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switch to the electric chair and never
lose a minute sleep. But the article

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that published the sheriff's quote also specifically
noted that quote. The integrity of the

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twenty year old veteran of law enforcement, however, overrides such emotion. Now

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that law enforcement officers knew who they
were looking for, the all Day murder

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investigation moved quickly. On May seventeenth, the Georgia Bureau of Investigations director told

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the public that they had matched fingerprints
from inside richards stolen car with Carl Isaacs

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and Billy Isaac's fingerprints had also been
matched to a camera in Jerry all Day's

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mobile home. The fingerprints of Wayne
and George were also found in incriminating locations.

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Between the fingerprints and the overwhelming circumstantial
evidence, the GBI director was confident

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that they had enough to charge and
convict the four men, but first they

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had to find them. Fortunately,
it wasn't that hard. George, Wayne,

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Carl, and Billie weren't carefully covering
their tracks. Their trek down the

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East Coast could best be described as
a wild rampage. On May eighteenth,

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four days after the massacre, the
four men robbed a grocery store in Virginia.

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They took over three thousand dollars.
This led to a high speed chase

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in which the four men led the
Virginia officials following them into West Virginia,

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but the West Virginia officials were ready
for the fugitives. They had set up

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a roadblock and the West Virginia officers
were armed with high powered hunting rifles and

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shotguns, and as a result,
George, Wayne Carl, and Billy were

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forced to abandon Mary's car and make
a run for it. George, who

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couldn't run very fast, was immediately
caught. The other three men fled into

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the woods. After an all night
search, bloodhounds finally found Wayne, Carl,

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and Billy about six miles away from
the initial roadblock. They were sleeping

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under a rock ledge in the forests
of southern West Virginia. The three fugitives

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did not resist being captured. They
were worn out and required medical attention after

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being exposed to the elements. The
officers later remarked that they were lucky that

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the men hadn't hidden in any nearby
cities. It would have been impossible to

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track them with their bloodhounds an unpopulated
area. When the detectives arrested the four

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men, they found three handguns in
their possession. Ballistics testing later confirmed that

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these pistols were the weapons used to
murder the all Days, and the officers

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also found Mary all Day's tome X
watch. It was still in George's pocket.

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Mary's sister in law and Chester's now
widowed wife, Barbara, was able

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to identify it. Barbara had once
taken the watch into a repair shop for

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Mary, and she noticed a distinctive
glue stain on its back. The men

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were charged with six counts of murder, one count of kidnapping, armed robbery,

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rape, and burglary except for Billy. Billy wasn't charged with kidnapping,

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murder, or rape. And that's
because on the same day he was arrested,

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fifteen year old Billy Isaac's flipped.
He confessed everything to the FBI,

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and in return, he received fewer
charges. That's how we know exactly what

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happened to the all days. Billy
testified to it in court later on.

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Billy's eyewitness testimony would be vital to
the States case against George, Wayne,

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and Billy's older brother Carl. Also
on the same day the men were arrested,

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the Albany Herald published an interview with
Wayne, Carl and Billy's mother,

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Betty Isaacs. In the interview,
Betty washed her hands clean of her sons,

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saying they are old enough to know
right from wrong and deserve what they

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get when captured. They had no
respect for their family and those people in

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Georgia. How can they expect any
from us? After they were captured,

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George, Wayne, Carl and Billy
were held without belle. Their location was

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supposed to be a secret, but
the local papers published it anyway. They

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were at the Randolph County Jail and
Cuthbert, Georgia. It's one hour north

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of Donaldsonville. Despite the Seminole County
Sheriff's harsh words from earlier, he knew

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that these killers couldn't be held in
the Seminole County jail. Too many locals

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wanted the men dead for what they
had done to the All days, the

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chance that the Seminole County residence would
start mob violence was incredibly high. People

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were calling the sheriff directly and saying
as much. Some locals were even discussing

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a public lynching. But for some
reason, the GBI director wasn't worried.

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He told the Albany Herald, I
don't believe that they are that kind of

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people down there. I think they
will be adequately treated. It was a

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subtle warning for the local sheriff.
Now that the sheriff was Facing the criticism

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from the head of the GBI,
he came up with a new reason as

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to why the killers couldn't be held
in the Seminole County jail. He claimed

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their facilities were inadequate. But everyone
knew what was actually going on. These

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four killers wouldn't last one day in
Seminole County. So here's some food for

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thought. If George, Wayne,
Carl and Billy couldn't even be held at

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the Seminole County jail, how in
the world were they going to go to

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trial there? In the US,
everyone has a right to a jury of

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their peers, but if those peers
are unfairly biased against you, well you're

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doomed from the start. And that
is, of course not usually allowed.

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And it's clear that the people of
Seminole County were very, very biased.

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For example, consider this, a
judge appointed eight lawyers for the four men.

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That's two lawyers per defendant. Each
and every one of these lawyers loudly

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protested this assignment. Nobody wanted to
represent these men, but public defenders cannot

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refuse to represent their assigned clients.
One attorney told the media quote, I've

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done everything I can to get out
of it. It's worse than a dose

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of CA colomel, but I have
to take it. To refuse would be

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contempt of court. Colomel was a
popular laxative at the time. However,

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one lawyer, Julian Webb, was
able to successfully evade representing the men he

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had recently sponsored Georgia's new death penalty
laws. He told the press, I

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absolutely cannot in good conscience, both
personally and professionally, defend any of the

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accused. It worked. Webb was
released from his duty to serve as counsel

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for one of the All Day Killers, and it is true that the death

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penalty was relevant to George, Wayne
and Carl's upcoming sentencings. On March twenty

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eighth, nineteen seventy three, the
state of Georgia had reinstated the death penalty.

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In nineteen sixty four, the Supreme
Court had suspended all executions in the

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United States. On June twenty ninth, nineteen seventy two, the Supreme Court

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in Firman v. Georgia, struck
down the laws then existing in the US.

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The Georgia General Assembly passed a new
death sentence law that went into effect

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on March twenty eighth, nineteen seventy
three, less than two months before the

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All Day massacre, and it was
death by electrocution. Lethal injection didn't come

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around until the year two thousand.
Under this new legislation, if someone committed

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a capital offense with aggravating circumstances,
then the jury could sentence the convicted person

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to death by the electric chair.
So the crime of murder, which is

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a capital offense, might not constitute
the death penalty on its own, but

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murder that was combined with an aggravating
circumstance could qualify. There are eleven aggravating

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circumstances that Georgia considers, and the
All Day murders clearly met a few of

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them, the most straightforward of which
was basically, if you murder someone while

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having escaped from prison, he'll be
susceptible to the death penalty, not to

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mention a vicious gang rape and murder. Billy Isaacs had not escaped prison.

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He just got pulled in along with
his brothers after they escaped, and since

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he confessed early and agreed to testify
for the state, he never faced murder

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charges. The fifteen year old would
have only been charged as an accomplice anyway.

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He didn't shoot anyone, and he
did not take part in the rape

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of Mary all Day. But the
three other prison escapeees, George, Wayne

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and Carl did face the death penalty. Their trials were considered a test of

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this new Georgia law. A local
defense attorney told the Albany Herald, if

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they are found guilty, I believe
this case will be used to determine whether

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the state's death penalty law will stand
up before the Supreme Court. And this

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all Day murder case also bolstered statewide
support for the death The Donaldsonville News reported

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on May thirty first that quote,
the brutal, senseless murders of six members

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of the all Day family should serve
as another warning to all society that there

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is a need for capital punishment in
this country. How can anyone who is

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aware of this heinous crime still maintain
that capital punishment is too harsh and should

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be stricken from our society for all
time. And that's how most of the

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Seminole County community felt, because while
the four criminals were laying about in a

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city jail, these residents were left
picking up the pieces of the tragedy they

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had cost. On June fourteenth,
Seminole County declared Father's Day the new All

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Day Memorial Day. All of the
local churches took up a special collection for

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the All Day Memorial Fund. Around
the same time, the all Day's neighbors

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helped the remaining family members how their
peanut fields. Without Ned, Jerry,

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Aubrey, Chester, and Jimmy,
they didn't have enough farm hands to run

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everything. Later, the all Day
family would have to shut down their farm

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entirely. They auctioned off their farm
equipment for about thirty three thousand dollars.

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That's worth about a quarter of a
million today. But you cannot put a

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dollar amount on the immense grief and
loss felt by who was left of the

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All Day family. Ernestine, Ned's
widow, grieved intensely for the massive loss

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of her family. She told the
Albany Harold we never dreamed someone was going

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to come along and try to kill
everybody. Somebody comes along who does not

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like to work and tries to take
everything away from us. The AP News

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reported that multiple All Day family members
openly advocated for the death penalty following their

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families murder. One All Day family
member said, I didn't believe in the

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death penalty. This has changed my
life and changed my opinions. Three months

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after Billy Isaacs was arrested, he
formerly played guilty to armed robbery and burglary,

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escaping, murder, kidnapping, and
rape charges. In exchange for his

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confession and subsequent eyewitness testimony, he
was sentenced to forty years in prison.

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Some might say he got off easy, but I have to point out again

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that he was only fifteen years old
and did not participate in any of the

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violence against the all Days. But
he was an accomplice all the same,

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his life ruined by jumping in the
car with his older brothers that day.

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I'm going to pause now for a
final commercial break. The three trials for

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George Dungee, Wayne Coleman, and
Karl Isaacs were widely publicized. Everyone in

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Donaldsonville and many Seminole County had personally
known or were even related to the All

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Day Family. Many of them had
gone to their funeral at the very least,

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they had heard of the All Day
Family massacre and formed their own opinions.

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Locals were threatening to murder the killers. Hundreds upon hundreds of front page

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articles were published in the Seminole County
area. Everyone within spitting distance of the

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All Day farm was now suddenly very
pro death penalty, and as a result

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of all of this, George,
Wayne and Karl's lawyers came to the conclusion

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that their clients trials should happen in
a different county. In fact, it

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could be anywhere except Seminole County.
All three defendants motioned for a change of

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venue, and all three defendants were
denied. They were tried in Seminole County,

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and they were, of course found
guilty and sentenced to death by the

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electric chair. Between Billy bone chilling
testimony, the damning fingerprints, and Mary's

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time X watch, it really was
a no brainer. Wayne had even told

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an FBI agent that he shot nineteen
year old Richard Wayne Miller because he quote

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didn't want any witnesses, and then
he helped the authorities found the body.

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It was so obvious that these men
had committed these crimes. Their lawyers didn't

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even try to argue their innocence.
They all just argued that their clients should

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not receive the death penalty, And
to be honest, it doesn't look like

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they argued very hard, and it's
hard to blame them. Numerous reports said

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that during Wayne's arraignment, he chuckled
when the judge read him his list of

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charges. If ever there was evil
in this world, it was probably these

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guys, and they needed to be
locked up. Luckily, the juries felt

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the same for each of George,
Wayne, and Karl's separate trials. The

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three different juries took less than an
hour to reach their guilty verdicts. At

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this point, you might be thinking, hey, that sounds like good news,

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but it's not. And that's because, in nineteen eighty five, a

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federal appeals court determined that their juries
were biased due to rampant pre trial publicity.

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This was a huge deal in Georgia. Everyone was furious. In fact,

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over one hundred thousand Georgians signed a
petition to have the appeals court judge

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that made that call impeached, but
the US House of Representatives rejected that petition.

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The judge did admit publicly that the
men were clearly guilty, but he

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couldn't believe that they had received an
impartial jury, which was their constitutional right.

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Now, George, Wayne and Carl
would receive new trials, new verdicts,

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and, if convicted, once more, new sentences. First up was

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thirty three year old Carl Junior Isaacs
and early nineteen eighty eight, Karl was

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again convicted and sentenced to death.
This was an especially easy decision for the

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jury and for a few good reasons. First of all, Karl confessed to

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the murders and rape while giving an
interview to a filmmaker for a documentary on

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the All Day Family massacre. As
in that moron sat in front of a

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recording camera and said he did it, and then he walked into a courtroom

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thinking he might get away scott free. That's not how this works, Carl.

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Additionally, Karl had also orchestrated two
separate prison breaks while incarcerated between nineteen

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seventy four and nineteen eighty eight.
Karl was never able to get himself out,

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but he did help others escape.
In the nineteen seventy four attempt,

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he smuggled in hacks, all blades, pajamas, shoes, belts, and

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other illicit items into his prison cell. He crafted makeshift guard uniforms from the

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clothes and use the hacksall blades to
slowly saw through the bars of the prison

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windows. He concealed his progress with
bubble gum paint and cardboard. On the

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day of the escape, Carl and
his friends would change into their fake uniforms

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and exit their cell through the windows
that led to the roof. Then they

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would get in an empty car in
the parking lot, which had been left

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for them earlier by a friend.
But Carl never got to see his magnificent

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plan unfold because two hours before the
escape was going to happen, he was

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transferred to a different prison. Carl
wrote a forty six page statement about this

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escape attempt. Here's a standout line. Herein lies the truthful story about one

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of the greatest escapes that has ever
been recorded in the annals of history.

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Perhaps it could even be the greatest. The second prison break Carl attempted,

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or I guess it's the third if
we're counting his nineteen seventy three break,

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was equally complicated and crazy. But
long story short, Carl was caught when

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a guard noticed that his ventilation ducked, was a slightly different color than the

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rest of his cell. Carl had
been trying to cut his way through to

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get to the outside world on a
different occasion before Georgia passed a law banning

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death row inmates from speaking to the
media. Carl told reporters that he did

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not regret killing the All Days.
He said, quote, I'd like to

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get out and kill more of them. They represent the type of society I

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don't like. They love church so
damn much. Working people don't do a

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damn thing for me. Carl also
said that he would kill his brother Billy

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in a heartbeat for betraying him.
His exact words were, if he were

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free, and how we're free,
he would be the first person I would

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kill. Have I told you how
much I'd love to kill little Billy.

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I started to kill him several times, but I didn't, and I should

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have killed him. Carl's lack of
remorse for his wrongdoing would be the final

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kneil in his coffin. No jury
wanted to see this man walk free.

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Forty nine year old Carl Junior Isaacs
was executed on May sixth, two thousand

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and three, by lethal injection,
just over three years too late for old

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Sparky and almost thirty years to the
day of the All Day massacre. Carl's

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final mill was a regular institutional tray
of pork and macaroni, pinto beans,

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cabbage, carrot salad, a dineroll, chocolate cake, and fruit punch,

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but he pushed the mill away.
All in all, he had spent twenty

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nine years and one hundred and two
days on death row. This made Carl

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one of the longest serving death row
inmates in the US. In May of

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nineteen eighty eight, the same year
Carl was reconvicted, Wayne had his retrial

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into cab County. He was convicted
easily, but the jury struggled with giving

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him the death penalty. After seven
days of liberation, the jury was deadlocked,

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so the judge sentenced forty year old
Wayne Carl Coleman to six consecutive life

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sentences in prison. Today he's seventy
five years old and in Wilcox State Prison.

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And in July of nineteen eighty eight, fifty year old George Elder Dungee

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pled guilty on accounts in Muskegee County. He was sentenced to three consecutive life

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terms and three concurrent life terms.
He died in prison in two thousand and

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six at age sixty eight. Thirty
six year old Billy Carroll Isaacs was released

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from prison in April of nineteen ninety
four after serving for almost twenty one years.

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He was originally sentenced to forty years, but his case was logistically a

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little weird. He was imprisoned for
two decades, starting at age fifteen four

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technically armed robbery and burglary. With
all that in mind, plus his repeated

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testimony appearances, I'm not surprised that
they led him out early despite his presence

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that horrific day in Georgia. He
always sought to do right by the All

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Day Family afterward, but he still
died young at the age of fifty one

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in Florida on May fourth, two
thousand and nine. Even though the All

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Day murderers are imprisoned or dead,
their impact will last lifetimes. Decades after

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the All Day Family massacre, members
of the All Day Family told the Associated

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Press that Seminole County was still changed
forever before it was a place of innocence.

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Now people still have two or three
locks on their doors, and probably

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an entire generation of All Day descendants
were lost, all because three evil men

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escaped prison and then ran out of
gas that fateful day fifty years ago.

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