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Ziegler was convicted of a quadruple 1975 Orange County murder and has been on death row ever since. He has long maintained ...
Orlando Circuit Judge Leticia Marques agreed Tuesday to hold an evidentiary hearing in the long and tangled case of death row ...
A circuit court judge agreed to decide in the coming days whether to grant Tommy Zeigler a new hearing that could bring his ...
Tommy Zeigler, who has been on death row for nearly 50 years, will have another chance to prove his innocence after a judge ...
It's a thrift store on Dillard Street now, but in 1975, a Christmas Eve nightmare unfolded inside the Zeigler Furniture store in Winter Garden when four people were murdered, and the owner, Tommy ...
Tommy Zeigler, the Florida furniture store owner accused of murdering his wife, in-laws and another man on Christmas Eve in 1975, has been awaiting the results of renewed fingerprint testing that ...
William “Tommy” Zeigler, now 70, has spent much of that time contesting his conviction from death row, insisting blood splattered across his shirt during the mass murder will prove his ...
A Florida judge green-lit the DNA testing of decades-old evidence that could absolve a death row inmate of the 1970's quadruple murder of his wife, her parents and a third man. Willie Thomas "Tommy" ...
No one has been on Florida’s death row longer than Tommy Zeigler. “I didn’t fire a weapon that night,” said Zeigler in a 2000 interview.
Inmate William Thomas "Tommy" 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. Now he hopes DNA testing ...
Zeigler’s request for DNA testing was one of the first to land on her desk. The case is the subject of a 2018 series and ongoing podcast, Blood and Truth, from the Tampa Bay Times.