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

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

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

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

Illegal Search and Seizure of Investigative Journalist Charles Postell’s home office

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Illegal Search and Seizure of Investigative Journalist Charles Postell's home office

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.

FOIA, heavily redacted

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FOIA, heavily redacted

Charles Postell was always sending and receiving responses to Freedom of Information Acts

Photo by Charles Postell, Carl J. Isaacs, following arrest of 6 members of Alday family, Donalsonville, Georgia

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Photo by Charles Postell, Carl J. Isaacs, following arrest of 6 members of Alday family, Donalsonville, Georgia

The Alday gravesite, Photo, Charles Postell, 1973

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The Alday gravesite, Photo, Charles Postell, 1973

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

Mitchell County Georgia Sheriff Bud Williford request for FBI investigation into murder of Mobley

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Mitchell County Georgia Sheriff Bud Williford request for FBI investigation into murder of Mobley

GBI list of items illegal seized from investigative journalist Charles Postell’s home

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GBI list of items illegal seized from investigative journalist Charles Postell's home

Dougherty County police report of rape victim

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Dougherty County police report of rape victim

My father used to tell me this story and I thought maybe he was making it up. It’s hard to read, but I recently discovered it in his files and realized it was true.

Notes by Charles Postell from Former head of Sheriff’s Association Regarding Sheriff Bud Williford

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Notes by Charles Postell from Former head of Sheriff's Association Regarding Sheriff Bud Williford

Painstaking research kept Charles Postell’s career in high gear; and often the target of death threats. His sources were loyal, and from all walks of life.