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Zeigler defense asks Judge Whitehead for evidentiary hearing

September 4, 2012 By Alice

Tommy Zeigler

Zeigler defense asks Judge Whitehead for evidentiary hearing. Last Thursday, the Zeigler defense team was back in court to ask Judge Whitehead for an evidentiary hearing to explore the latest developments in the case of William Thomas Zeigler, who remains on death row in Florida. Of course, at issue were the false arrest report and the […]

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Filed Under: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice, Unsolved, Zeigler Tagged With: DNA, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, William Thomas Zeigler

Christian Bruyère takes an interest in Zeigler

July 26, 2012 By Alice

Christian Bruyère takes an interest in Zeigler. Mr. Bruyère  and his company “Mystique Films” are based in Vancouver, Canada. Vancouver is the third largest motion picture production center in North America. I could not be happier that Zeigler is getting more media attention. Yesterday was Zeigler’s birthday and a press conference was held outside the Orange County Courthouse. […]

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Filed Under: Cold Case News, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler

Zeigler: evil killer or parent-to-be?

April 25, 2012 By Alice

Zeigler: evil killer or parent-to-be? Something has been bothering me immensely in the Zeigler case. I know, many things bother me in this case! But this is something I have not blogged about before. It is about the life term insurance policies and Zeigler’s bank accounts. It has been stated over and over again that […]

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Filed Under: Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Zeigler, Part XXI: Legal Consequences

April 13, 2012 By Alice

Zeigler, Part XXI: Legal Consequences of the false arrest report and the lies told by Detective Frye under oath? We have to go back to the initial trial when Mr. Zeigler was defended by Mr. Ralph V. Hadley, III. Mr. Hadley started the Zeigler trial from the assumption that the documents he had received were […]

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Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Death Row, Florida, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct

Zeigler, Part XX: The False Arrest Report

April 13, 2012 By Alice

Zeigler, Part XX: The False Arrest Report is based on the documents filed in Mr. Zeigler case as per the previous post. The documents were sent to me by Mr. Zeigler’s lawyers and I thank them for that. On Dec 29, 1975, Detective Frye from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office wrote in his arrest report: […]

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Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Forensics, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Zeigler, Part XIX

April 13, 2012 By Alice

Zeigler, Part XIX: There is a new and exciting turn of events in the case of William Thomas Zeigler. As loyal readers know, Mr. Zeigler has been on death row for the 1975 quadruple murders that took place on Christmas Eve inside his family’s furniture store in Wintergarden, Florida. When I started my posts about […]

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Filed Under: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Faulty Evidence, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

The Kish Report

March 26, 2012 By Alice

William Th. Zeigler with his wife Eunice Edwards-Zeigler

The Kish Report : the request for further DNA testing in the case of William Thomas Zeigler was denied by Judge Whitehead March 12, 2012.  The hearing for that request took place last Dec 1, 2011, see here. Judge Whitehead had previously ruled that Zeigler should receive state-funding for a blood spatter expert to testify whether […]

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Filed Under: Forensics, Unsolved, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Capital Punishment, Dennis H. Tracey. III, DNA, Faulty Evidence, John Houston Pope, Paul Kish, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler

CClivechat recap March 16, 2012

March 16, 2012 By Alice

sum it up #cclivechat

In today’s #CCLiveChat we paid attention to two cases. Both involved young women who were brutally slain. Both cases came to me via email and I thank those who have alerted me to them. You know who you are. Case #1 Dana Lanell Stidham, found murdered in 1989 in Arkansas. Some links for this case: […]

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Filed Under: Zeigler Tagged With: Arkansas, Dana Lanell Stidham, DNA, Missouri, Teresa Sue Hilt, William Thomas Zeigler

Update Zeigler: DNA request denied

March 14, 2012 By Alice

William Thomas Zeigler/Prison Photo

If you click on the link here you can see that the request for DNA for Zeigler has been denied. It states: “Denying Successive Petition for DNA Testing Pursuant to FLA.STAT. 925.11(1)(a).” NOTE: for some reason the page keeps changing. If you see the general search page, go to “all cases records search” and fill […]

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Filed Under: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, DNA, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, William Thomas Zeigler

Original Zeigler Crime Scene Diagram

December 2, 2011 By Alice

This is the original crime scene diagram made by private detective George Anan who was hired by the defense in 1976 and who searched the Zeigler furniture store together with attorney Vernon Davids. In a two-week examination of the store, Davids and Annan found a .38 caliber slug and a .38 caliber exit hole in […]

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Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, Faulty Evidence, Florida, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, William Thomas Zeigler

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