After 48 years on death row, Tommy Zeigler finally has succeeded in his battle for testing. The results could mark a breakthrough in his case if State Attorney Monique Worrell supports his quest.
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A trail of blood at the murder scene — and the absence of it on the accused killer’s clothes — show it is impossible for Florida death row inmate Tommy Zeigler to have killed his wife and in-laws on Christmas Eve 1975, his lawyers assert in a new court filing.
Fresh DNA analysis of dozens of pieces of evidence instead supports Zeigler’s story of walking in on a burglary that turned deadly at his family’s furniture store in Winter Garden, his lawyers say, and provides enough reasonable doubt to overturn his convictions.
