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On a quiet spring night in 1985, Harold and Thelma Swain welcomed a stranger into their Georgia church for Bible study. Minutes later, both lay dead on the floor. The brutal shooting stunned Camden County - and set off a decades-long search for justice.But justice never came for the Swains. Instead, it was twisted into tragedy for someone else. Dennis Perry, a working-class man with no history of violence, was convicted in 2003 despite a case built on shaky witness memories, community gossip, and no physical evidence. For nearly twenty years, Perry sat in prison for a crime he didn't commit, while the true suspect - a man tied to white supremacist groups - lived freely under the cover of a fragile alibi. Then came the breakthrough no one had pursued: a forgotten pair of eyeglasses from the crime scene. When modern DNA testing finally spoke, it cleared Perry and pointed toward the suspect authorities had once ignored. The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders follows the fight to uncover the truth - from the resilience of Perry and the enduring faith of the Swain family, to the relentless reporting of journalist Joshua Sharpe and the legal advocacy that overturned a wrongful conviction. It is a story of racial injustice, investigative failure, and the perseverance that forced the truth into the light. Nearly forty years later, the case turned upside down: Perry was freed, and Erik Sparre was arrested. The lesson remains unforgettable: Justice came late, but truth outlived silence.

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