Alabama businessman wrongly accused of killing judge, lawyer in 1989 mail bombings dead at 81

Robert Wayne O’Ferrell, a south Alabama businessman who was wrongly accused in the 1989 mail bomb murders of a Birmingham federal judge and a Georgia lawyer, has died.

He was 81.

In January 1990, O’Ferrell and his family saw their lives disrupted when federal agents swarmed his south Alabama home and junk business seeking evidence in the bombing deaths of Judge Robert Vance and Robert Robinson, a search covered heavily by news media…

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