A 61-year-old man was arrested for a Lake Wales 1985 double murder after the Lake Wales Police Department (LWPD) reviewed the evidence decades later.

LWPD arrested Troy Adam Thorne, 61 on Oct. 17 for the murders of Harvey and Margaret Bolster.

On Feb. 28, 1985, LWPD said officers found the Bolsters murdered at the Swan Apartments located at 241 E. Seminole Avenue in Lake Wales. The Bolsers were found inside the apartment of Thorne and Samuel Edward Jones and it had been set on fire.

After a manhunt, Thorne and Jones were both arrested in 1985, LWPD said.

Jones was sentenced to life in prison and is in the Zephyrhills Correctional Institution.

Thorne however was declared incompetent to stand trial.

In 2022, LWPD said detectives launched a new investigation in which they reviewed docum

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