Alday family murders May 5, 1973 Carl Issacs, Wayne Coleman and George Dungee escape from Maryland State Prison. They pick up Billy Issacs, Carl's 15 year-old brother May 10, 1973 Richard Miller is abducted in McConnellsburg, PA. He is murdered in Allegheny County, MD. 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. May 15, 1973 The body of Mary Alday is discovered. 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. May 18, 1973 West Virginia police capture Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs and Wayne Coleman December 31, 1973 Jury selection begins in Seminole County for Carl Issacs. The racially mixed jury has six women. January 2, 1974 Carl Issacs goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death. January 6, 1974 George Dungee goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death. January 14, 1974 Wayne Coleman goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death. 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 December 9, 1985 3 judge panel finds that pretrial publicity about the Alday family murders made a fair trial virtually impossible in Seminole County June 3, 1986 Supreme Court orders a new trial in the Alday family murders 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 June 28, 1990 U.S. Supreme Court rejects Carl Issac's appeal of second death sentence February 18, 1993 Billy Issacs released from Georgia prison April 21, 2003 U.S. Supreme Court upholds Carl Issac's death sentence 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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