Prosecutors in Westchester County, just north of New York City, announced the identification of two new suspects in the 1996 double murder of an upstate millionaire and his home health aide — a case that has endured through five trials, an overturned conviction , and decades of unanswered questions — while the wrong man spent more than a decade in prison.
Westchester District Attorney Miriam Rocah did not name the suspects but said they are believed to have targeted Archie Harris, a millionaire with a $2 million estate, in a brutal attack inside Harris’ Eastchester mansion nearly three decades ago.
Rocah stated that the motives of the suspects and any connection to the victims are still under investigation while firmly asserting the innocence of Selwyn Days, the man previously charged and convicted in the case.
“An extensive and ongoing investigation was undertaken by my Conviction Review Unit, following a request in 2023, has identified two individuals involved in the murders of Archie Harris and Betty Ramcharan and no connection to Selwyn Days, who was previously charged,” Rocah said, according to the New York Post…