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Blood Echoes

The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

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Blood Echoes

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

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Excellent writing. It's clear that the author is writing this story for victims family. there's no great shocks or surprises. There doesn't need to be. The reality is so horrendous on it's own the author need not overdramatize. The one drawback is the narration. Those are not Georgia accents. They aren't even southern accents. That was hard to get past.

Very well told

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 this true story is proof that there is pure evil in the world that Satan does walk upon us. I feel so bad for the family. They lost more than just family members. Who is interesting to find out about the family members after their loved ones have passed and how big a hole to this day the family has with their loved ones gone 

What a horrible story to be true

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this was the most accurate accout of this horrible slander in georgia I live on river rd and know alot of people who had first hand knowledge of this and this book was pretty much right on target with the truth

very accurate

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Being interested in true crime, I found this telling of the senseless murders and rape of six innocents to be straightforward and direct. The book does not spend an inordinate time on profiling the killers or trying to excuse their crimes owing to difficult childhoods and horrible parents. It does not try to establish a reasoning or motive for the crime where six members of the same family were slaughtered on the same afternoon in 1973. Other than the random and inhumanity of the killers, there is no motive or relatable reason how something like this could have ever happened.

The story is void of the usual “filler” material, opting rather to concentrate on what occurred and how the killers where quickly caught. Sadly, our broken justice system is once again put, (or should be put), on trial for not meting out real justice quickly and irreparably.

I’d venture a guess that many true crime devotees aren’t familiar with the “Alday” case. This story is quick, thorough and sickening. It is well told with an appropriate narration in tow.

A Clear and Concise Account of Pure Evil

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stinks.... simply put.... mispronunciations of simple words....and why ..oh why... must they try the Southern accent? I found it extremely disconcerting to hear the male narrator attempt to speak in a southern woman's accent.... foolish to say the least...

The narrator....

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author sure throws around redneck, hillbilly and other slanderous words about southern people. the whole book reads like someone who looks down on Southern people. the narration is the worst I have ever heard. couldn't finish it.

narration is atrocious. what a terrible fake southern accent.

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This is an interesting and well written account of a brutal crime strongly reminiscent of the Clutter murders in 1959.

That being said, the narrator, Kris Koscheski, really drags it down. He mispronounces simple words--Albany, Georgia turns into Al Benny, for example--and insists on doing one of the worst Southern accents I've ever heard, over and over again. It's Dick Van Dyke doing an English accent level of bad. It's an inexcusably amateur performance from a professional voice actor. Kris, don't ever do another Southern accent until you've put in some real work with a dialect coach.

Kris Koscheski kind of ruins it.

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I hadn’t heard of this atrocity until I ran across it whilst looking for a book to listen to. Such horrific crimes against the Alday family and even more as the trials lingered on.

Excellently written AND read

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Got about 4 chapters in & just cringe when men or women do the opposite sexes voices or accents. Please stop. Can't finish this book.

Accents ruined it....

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