After a feigned attempt to protect Postell and his family from 4 death row escaped inmates, the GBI returned with a search warrant to take letters which they had pilfered while there under the guise of protection.
They left the next morning when Postell set off for his Albany Herald office, leaving Postell’s wife and children alone in the house they had professed was in danger of escaped convicts retribution after Postell refused to help them.
One of the only, if not the only, journalist allowed on “the Row,” 4th floor of GA’s maximum security prison where Death Row was located a stone’s throw from “Old Sparky,” the hand-made white-painted electric chair made by a man whose fate wound up in its unholy seat.
Charles Postell was always sending and receiving responses to Freedom of Information Acts
Photo by Charles Postell. Donalsonville, Ga
The black marble was shipped in from Africa for the 6 graves of the Alday family slain by Carl Isaacs, Billy Isaacs, Wayne Carl Coleman and George Dungee on May 14, 1973
