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.