Alday Murders, 1973 Photo by Charles Postell

Posted on March 24, 2014 by ROBIN POSTELL

The five Alday men’s bodies remained in the home when Charles Postell arrived on the scene in Donalsonville, Georgia. River Road, a straight shot of pavement through the rural Seminole County of good ole boys of the tightest-cinched Bible Belt, would forever be a haunted trail. Not far from the residence, down a logging road, was the body of Mary Alday, wife of Jerry Alday, who had been left naked and dead in a fire ant bed.
“Get them goddam fire ants off that baby,” Sheriff Dan White said at the scene.

Charles Postell’s home office after GBI illegal search and seizure

Posted on February 5, 2014 by ROBIN POSTELL

Postell’s career as an investigative journalist included many exposes on law officials, and agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). After 4 inmates escaped from Georgia State Prison’s Death Row, they claimed to be protecting Postell and his family, arriving at the Postell home with guns and staying overnight.

Postell caught one of the agents rifling through his office files in the middle of the night. The next day the agents returned with a search warrant and went directly to the files which had been pilfered.

Charges were brought against Postell and wife Judi, but later dismissed following an FBI sting which foiled an extortion attempt.

This led to a $5.5 million lawsuit against the GBI for illegal search and seizure, opening up open discourse about 4th amendment rights violations

“End of an Era,” by JD Sumner for The Albany Herald on Charles Postell

Posted on February 5, 2014 by ROBIN POSTELL

Charles Postell died in March 2008. Reporter JD Sumner wrote this piece on the former Herald state editor

MIDNIGHT EDITION, Showtime feature based on “Escape of my Dead Men”

Posted on February 5, 2014 by ROBIN POSTELL

MIDNIGHT EDITION was the Showtime Feature based on Charles Postell’s book “Escape of my Dead Men,” which was a sequel to his non-fiction account of Georgia mass murder, “Dead Man Coming”

Georgia State Prison’s electric chair

Posted on November 12, 2013 by ROBIN POSTELL

Georgia State Prison's electric chair

Replaced now with lethal injection, this chair was on the 4th floor of Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, GA, on Death Row. Handmade by a man whose fate was decided ultimately on the day of his execution, this chair was transported with Death Row mass murderer Carl Isaacs early on the morning of the only escape from GSP’s death row. The 4 other inmates in on the escape made it out, though one, Troy Greg, was beaten to death before they were recaptured – in a Outlaw Motorcycle Gang clubhouse