Carl Junior Isaacs, 19, May 1973, in custody for the murders of 6 members of the Alday family
Carl Isaacs at 19-years-old claimed to have murdered 15 by the time he was 19 – or so he told my father during the decade’s worth of interviews conducted at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville. Convicted of what President Jimmy Carter called the most “heinous crime in Georgia’s history,” he would spend 30 years manipulating his way out of the electric chair – dubbed “Old Sparky.” Appeal after…












