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, 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 Georgia attorney Robert Robertson.

Vance was killed on December 16, 1989, when a package bomb delivered to his home in Mountain Brook exploded. The blast seriously injured Vance's wife, Helen.

Robertson was killed by a similar explosion just a few days later in Savannah. Other bombs were sent to locations in Atlanta and Jacksonville, but government agents intentionally detonate

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