Inmate Serving Life Sentence Charged with 1996 Cold Case Murder of Georgia Pastor
Law enforcement officials recently achieved a major breakthrough in the 1996 cold case murder of Reverend James Hand, a pastor killed while repairing his church roof in rural Georgia. Authorities have officially charged Zachary B. Harper with the crime, an individual who was a teenager at the time and is already serving a life sentence for a separate homicide. The investigation was revitalized through persistent police work and the acquisition of new information that linked the incarcerated man to the decades-old shooting. This development offers a sense of legal resolution to the small…
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