18 Dec 2025
6. "Erkänn eller dö" - Fallet Dennis Perry
11 mars 1985, Georgia. I kyrkan Rising Daughter Baptist Church blir Diakonen Harold Swain och hans hustru Thelma mördade. Vittnesuppgifterna går isär, det finns inget tydligt motiv och ingen stämmer överens med fantombilden. Utredningen kör fast och när en ny utredare tar upp fallet igen 15 år senare riktar han in sig på en man som redan strukits från listan av misstänkta, en man med vattentätt alibi och ingen möjlighet att utföra brottet: Dennis Perry.
Detta är berättelsen om Dennis Perry - som fick ge upp sin rätt att överklaga, för att undvika att bli avrättad.
Källor:
Undisclosed, Podcast, 'Season 3: The State v. Dennis Perry, Episode 1–3' (2018) https://www.undisclosedpod.com/ (https://www.undisclosedpod.com/)
Sharpe, Joshua, The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders (W.W. Norton & Company 2025)
Sharpe, Joshua, 'The Imperfect Alibi: The Forgotten Suspect, the DNA and the Church Murders that Haunted a Detective' (Wallace House Center for Journalists 2020) https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sharpe_Imperfect-Alibi.pdf (https://wallacehouse.umich.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sharpe_Imperfect-Alibi.pdf) hämtad 1 november 2025
'Dennis Perry' (Georgia Innocence Project) https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/freed-client/dennis-perry/ (https://www.georgiainnocenceproject.org/freed-client/dennis-perry/) hämtad 1 november 2025
Yan, Holly och Ryan Young, 'An innocent man spent decades in prison for a Black couple's murder. Nearly 40 years later, police say they found the killer' (CNN, 25 december 2024) https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/us/dennis-perry-swain-murders-georgia (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/25/us/dennis-perry-swain-murders-georgia) hämtad 1 november 2025
'Dennis Perry' (National Registry of Exonerations) https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/13059 (https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/13059) hämtad 3 november 2025
Sharpe, Joshua, 'The Man in the Vestibule: Chronicle of a Double Homicide in the Rural South' (CrimeReads, 5 augusti 2025) https://crimereads.com/the-man-in-the-vestibule-chronicle-of-a-double-homicide-in-the-rural-south/ (https://crimereads.com/the-man-in-the-vestibule-chronicle-of-a-double-homicide-in-the-rural-south/) hämtad 1 november 2025
Barron, Christina, 'Trial for Erik Sparre, man accused in 1985 Georgia double murder, ends in mistrial one day after testimony begins' (News4JAX, 29 oktober 2025) https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/10/29/trial-for-erik-sparre-man-accused-in-1985-georgia-double-murder-ends-in-mistrial-one-day-after-testimony-begins/ (https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/10/29/trial-for-erik-sparre-man-accused-in-1985-georgia-double-murder-ends-in-mistrial-one-day-after-testimony-begins/) hämtad 3 november 2025
'Georgia man arrested in 1985 church murders after DNA evidence exonerates original suspect' (Associated Press, 10 december 2024) https://apnews.com/article/dennis-perry-exonerated-georgia-church-1985-murder-ae97eedf07072225ab84b246384c0a74 (https://apnews.com/article/dennis-perry-exonerated-georgia-church-1985-murder-ae97eedf07072225ab84b246384c0a74) hämtad 3 november 2025
