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  • Blood Echoes

  • The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath
  • By: Thomas H. Cook
  • Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Blood Echoes

By: Thomas H. Cook
Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
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Summary

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 15-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.

©1992 Thomas H. Cook (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

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Such a tragedy to befall a family

Didn't know about this case
A truly senseless ,brutal killing that not only leaves the rest of the family bereft but strips them of their livelihood and their home
The 4 perpetrators involved were just heartless .

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