WOODBINE, Ga.—A southeast Georgia man was arrested and charged in the 1985 killing of a couple at a black church after the original suspect was exonerated on DNA evidence, authorities said.
Erik Kristensen Sparre, 61, was jailed on charges of murder and aggravated assault in the killings of Harold and Thelma Swain, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Monday. Sparre was arrested nearly four decades after the couple was fatally shot inside Rising Daughter Baptist Church in coastal Camden County.
