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Carl Issacs, Wayne Coleman and George Dungee escape from Maryland State Prison. They pick up Billy Issacs, Carl's 15 year-old brother
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| May 10, 1973 |
Richard Miller is abducted in McConnellsburg, PA. He is murdered in Allegheny County, MD.
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| May 14, 1973 |
Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs, and Wayne Coleman enter the Alday home in Seminole County (Donalsonville), Georgia looking for money and guns. The Maryland work camp escapees kill Jerry Alday, his father Ned, two brothers and an uncle. Jerry's wife Mary, who had witnessed some of the killing, was forced into a car and raped repeatedly before she was killed.
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| May 15, 1973 |
The body of Mary Alday is discovered.
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| May 17, 1973 |
On the day that the Alday family is buried, West Virginia police capture George Dungee, first of the Issacs gang to fall into custody.
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| May 18, 1973 |
West Virginia police capture Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs and Wayne Coleman
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| December 31, 1973 |
Jury selection begins in Seminole County for Carl Issacs. The racially mixed jury has six women.
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| January 2, 1974 |
Carl Issacs goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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| January 6, 1974 |
George Dungee goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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| January 14, 1974 |
Wayne Coleman goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.
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| July 28, 1980 |
Carl Issacs plans to escape, along with four other inmates. He is moved to a new "Death Row," foiling his attempt, but 4 other men succeed. Three are recaptured 4 days later in North Carolina, the fourth dead at the hands of his fellow escapees
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| December 9, 1985 |
3 judge panel finds that pretrial publicity about the Alday family murders made a fair trial virtually impossible in Seminole County
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Seminole County, Georgia |
| June 3, 1986 |
Supreme Court orders a new trial in the Alday family murders
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| September 9, 1988 |
Murder One, a movie based on the Alday family murders starring Henry Thomas and James Wilder, shot almost entirely in Toronto, Canada, opens to mixed reviews
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| June 28, 1990 |
U.S. Supreme Court rejects Carl Issac's appeal of second death sentence
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| February 18, 1993 |
Billy Issacs released from Georgia prison
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| April 21, 2003 |
U.S. Supreme Court upholds Carl Issac's death sentence
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| May 6, 2003 |
The man who orchestrated the Alday Family murders, Carl Isaacs, is put to death by lethal injection. At the time he had been on death row longer than any other person.
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