These pictures show the furniture store as it is today. They may help readers to understand the testimony of two principle witnesses against Zeigler. Both of these men, Felton Thomas and Edward Williams, were as likely to have been involved in the murders as Zeigler. Why weren't their stories questioned? Three other witnesses,  the Nolans, the Roaches, and Jon Jellison provided testimony that refutes Thomas and Edwards' stories. Only the Nolans were allowed to testify at trial. The others were kept hidden from the defense until years later. No jury ever heard their testimony.

Felton Thomas claimed he was told by Zeigler to throw this breaker after he and Charlie Mays returned from test firing guns in an orange grove. He saw no blood on Zeigler even though Zeigler by then had supposedly killed three people in the store. Thomas says Zeigler then allowed him to leave while he took Mays into the store and killed him. Was Thomas one of the killers? An electric clock on the store's office wall was shot through the center to make it look like a random bullet had stopped it. More likely, the clock was stopped when the breaker was pulled by the killers.

According to Thomas, Zeigler tried to break the glass in one of these two small doors in back of the store seen here in 2007. They then drove to Zeigler's house to get the key. Williams story was that Zeigler tried to shoot him as he entered the small door on the left, but the gun was empty. Zeigler then gave him the gun which had been used to kill Perry Edwards. That's how Williams claimed he ended up with one of the murder weapons. Why did the state attorney buy this absurd story? And why did he hide the testimony of the Roaches and Jon Jellison?

This is the back of the Winter Garden Inn as seen today from the back of the furniture store. Thomas says Mays was there to pick up a TV, but for some reason he parked his truck on the other side of the six foot fence in the Inn parking lot. Williams claimed that he climbed the fence after Zeigler gave him the gun and he ran to the KFC across the street. The Nolans testimony proved Williams was lying. If Williams lied, Zeigler is innocent. Read the Nolans' testimony,page 284.

This is the gate to the back parking lot as it appears today. There is still an old rusty lock on the gate. One of the prongs -the outside one - was likely bent by the policeman Jon Jellison saw in the parking lot with gun drawn before he heard gun shots. That prong is now broken off and the inner prong is now also bent down. The prosecution claimed that Zeigler must have bent the prong before he shot himself.