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Georgia man arrested in 1985 church murders after DNA evidence exonerates original suspect

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Erik Kristensen Sparre , 61 , was jailed on charges of murder and aggravated assault in the killings of Harold and Thelma Swain .

Sparre was arrested nearly four decades after the couple was fatally shot inside Rising Daughter Baptist Church .

Dennis Perry was sentenced to life in prison when a jury convicted him in 2003 of murdering the Swains .

He spent two decades in prison before a judge ordered a retrial in 2020 .

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