Coffee Co. man wrongfully accused in deadly bombings dies

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.

Coffee Co. man wrongfully accused in deadly bombings dies

DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) -- A New Brockton man who was once accused of sending package bombs that killed a federal judge in Alabama and a Georgia civil rights lawyer but was later proven to be innocent has died. Robert Wayne O’Ferrell died on Friday, July 25, in Coffee County at the age of 81, an obituary from Sorrells Funeral Home revealed. O'Ferrell was wrongfully accused in the 1989 bombing deaths of Judge Robert Vance and Atlanta attorney Robert R…