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Insider extra: Orange-Osceola prosecutor pursues new fingerprint analysis in Tommy Zeigler case

Zeigler was sentenced to death for 1975 Winter Garden quadruple murder

ORLANDO, Fla. – Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell is seeking to examine decades-old fingerprint evidence in the case of Tommy Zeigler, a Winter Garden man who’s been on Florida’s Death Row since a judge sentenced him for the 1975 quadruple murder of his wife, in-laws, and a customer inside his family’s furniture store.

Worrell’s request marks the first time since Zeigler’s conviction 47 years ago that the state of Florida has offered to test evidence in the long-closed murder case, according to Zeigler’s legal team.