Man guilty in 1990 Dekalb County Doppelmurm condemned

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Atlanta, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A man who was found guilty last week to kill a brother and a sister in 1990 was sentenced to three lifelong prison on Tuesday and 100 years in prison.

Kenneth Perry, 56, found a jury of the DEKALB County, guilty of numerous charges in connection with the death of John and Pamela Sumpter.

Shondeana Morris, judge of the Supreme Court of Dekalb County, who has supervised Perry’s procedure since his beginning on March 3, 2025, asked for both the prosecutors and defense.

Perry was initially charged on June 26, 2024 by a large jury in two cases of malice murder, two cases of crimes, rape, four cases of serious bodily harm, two cases of severe battery, two possesses of a knife during the commission of an armed forces and theft.

In an exam that lasted a little more than a week, Perry was found guilty last Tuesday. The jury took a little more than two hours to get a judgment.

Pamela Sumpter was 43 years old at the time of her death, while John Sumpter was 46 years old.

Sherry Boston, District Prosecutor of Dekalb County, said that the cold falling team of her office had identified Perry by investigative work, which was financed by the persecution of cold in cold in October 2023.

The police found Pamela Sumpter in the apartment of a neighbor when they reacted to a report about a person who was stabbed into an apartment complex of a Tree Hills Parkway. She told the police that she was sexually attacked and stabbed and her brother John Sumpter was also stabbed. The police found John Sumpter dead in a neighboring apartment.

A rape kit that was carried out on Pamela Sumpter, according to the DA’s office, included DNA from her attacker. Pamela Sumpter told the police that her brother had brought a man into her apartment, and although she said she knew nothing about the man, she gave the police a description and said she believed that the man was out of Detroit, Michigan.

Pamela Sumpter died on August 5, 1990, whereupon Bostone’s office said that the case had become cold.

In November 2022, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Pamela Sumpters rape kit -dna sent to a private laboratory and used funds of the initiative of the sexual assault of Councin Coordinating Council. The rape kit was analyzed by Bode Technology and a male DNA profile was uploaded to the nationwide DNA database in Georgia in June 2023.

In February 2024, the suspect’s DNA profile was identified in Detroit, in which the victim identified Perry, who identified her ex-boyfriend. Perry was found in Loganville, Georgia, and Othram, a private laboratory, genealogical matches to the DNA of Pamela Sumpters rape kit “formed a family network that could contain Mr. Perry,” it said.

Perry arrested by the Sheriff of the Dekalb County on June 6, 2024 without incidents, and the police collected a DNA sample that, according to the office of DA, also corresponded to the DNA in Pamela Sumpters rape kit.

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