The lingering case of Tommy Zeigler and how Florida fights DNA testing.
A convicted killer on death row for 48 years felt DNA could help exonerate him, but prosecutors fought him for decades. Then voters elected a new prosecutor.
Blood and Truth : A narrative series
Photo from William Thomas “Tommy” Zeigler’s court file. A 38 caliber bullet casing in front of Zeigler Furniture Store, Winter Garden, Fla. Dec 24, 1975. Zeigler was convicted of the murders of his wife, in-laws and another man in his furniture store on Christmas Eve in 1975 in Winter Garden, Fla.
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