ABLES, Tony Alvin

Florida Department of Corrections photo of Tony Ables

DNA technology is catching up to murderer Tony Alvin Ables. Ables has been convicted of 2 murders, and charges for another are pending. Ables is not being charged with a 4th murder, despite DNA evidence. On December 11, 1970, Ables (sometimes referred to as Abels) killed a man during a robbery. He pled guilty on […]

SUMPTER, Michael E.

Michael Sumpter police photo

DNA evidence caught up with Michael Sumpter 50 years after his first murder. But death had caught up with him first. Sumpter died in 2001 from cancer. In 2018, he was linked to an old murder through DNA. Jane Sanders Britton’s father was the Administrative Vice-President of the storied Radcliffe College. Britton was an alumni […]