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Jul 2021
50m 37s

INFAMOUS: Tommy Zeigler

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Tommy Zeigler was sentenced to death for the murders of his wife, her parents, and a customer at his Winter Garden, Florida furniture store in 1976. He’s still on death row today - 45 years later. But did he do it? And could DNA evidence exonerate him?

 

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