Dennis Perry’s DNA wasn’t a match for evidence in the murder of a Black couple nearly 40 years ago. Why an innocent man ...

In 2003, Perry, who is White, was convicted and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in prison for the brutal 1985 slaying of a Black couple named Harold and Thelma Swain at their church in ...

By Hank Sanders Nearly 40 years after Harold and Thelma Swain were shot to death in a small church in Camden County, Ga., and after a man was wrongly sent to prison for two decades over the crime ...

Harold and Thelma Swain were shot and killed at their Georgia church in 1985, but although DNA evidence and witnesses put their killer at the scene of the crime, the double murders went unsolved ...

Deacon Harold Swain and his wife, Thelma, were shot and killed in 1985 inside the Rising Daughter Baptist Church in Camden County. The GBI searched Sparre’s home in August 2020. “The search ...

Erik Kristensen Sparre, 61, was jailed on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault in the killings of Harold and Thelma Swain, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Monday.

Erik Kristensen Sparre, 61, was jailed on charges of felony murder and aggravated assault in the killings of Harold and Thelma Swain, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Monday.