March 11th, 1995, Waverly, Georgia.

While holding a Bible class at the Rising Daughters Baptist Church, 66-year-old Deacon Harold Swain

is summoned to the vestibule by an unidentified man.

Harold is shot to death by the stranger, and when a 63-year-old wife, Thelma Swain, goes to check on him,

she is fatally shot as well. Years later, a suspect named

Dennis Perry is charged and convicted of the two murders and receives two life

sentences. However, controversy surrounds the conviction, thanks to missing evidence,

questionable eyewitness testimony, and an alibi which supposedly placed Perry at another location

at the time of the murders, so questions remain about whether the right person is in prison for this crime.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we are going to be examining a

pretty controversial story, the 1985 murders of Harold and Thelma Swain.

Now this is one of the earliest cases featured on Unsolved Mysteries, and if you watched it on Amazon Prime, you might be wondering why I have elected to cover this one.

At the end of the segment, there's a brief update which mentions that a suspect named Dennis Perry, who quote unquote had a grudge against Harold, was sent to prison for these murders.

So on the surface, it seems like this case is completely solved, but there's actually a whole lot more to this story.

Perry has always maintained his innocence and claims that he had an alibi placing him hours away when the crime took place. Some of the evidence which was used to convict

them has been called into question and key pieces of physical evidence which might have exonerated

Perry happened to go missing before his trial.

In fact, one of these pieces of evidence was actually displayed on camera by Robert Stack

himself during the Unsaw Mystery segment, but no one knows what happened to it.

Now it's worth mentioning that in order to avoid the death penalty, Perry elected a

wave his right to appeal his conviction, so even if he's innocent, it would probably take a miracle to get him out of prison.

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