AJC reporter wins national award for young journalists
Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Joshua Sharpe, whose investigation into a decades-old church murder in South Georgia, helped set an innocent man free, has been honored a...
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South Georgia prosecutor with decades of misconduct accusations resigns
John B. Johnson III has left his long-held post as a top prosecutor at the Brunswick District Attorney’s Office.
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GBI exhumes body of deacon murdered at Georgia church in 1985
Agents removed several small evidence bags of material from the casket, which they said would be tested for DNA.
Documentary on AJC reporting that helped free prisoner to air on GPB
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution documentary will air on Georgia Public Broadcasting Oct.
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GBI searches property of man tied to Ga. church murders investigation
GBI agents on Thursday conducted an hours-long search on the property of Erik Sparre, a man linked through DNA to the scene of a 1985 double murder in a South Georgia church.
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Man walks free after conviction tossed in Ga. church murders
A Georgia man left prison Thursday on a signature bond after winning a bid for a new trial in a 1985 Georgia church murder in which he has always said he was innocent.
Conviction overturned in Ga. church murders case
Dennis Perry, 58, has served 20 years of two life sentences since a jury convicted him in 2003 for the fatal shooting Harold and Thelma Swain at Rising Daughter Baptist Church...