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Blood and Truth

Maria Carrillo

Tommy Zeigler has been on death row for 42 years and for more than half that time, he’s been trying to convince the state of Florida to allow for DNA tests that might help exonerate him. But the state continually refuses. About 20 other men are in a si...

  • 31 minutes 38 seconds
    Chapter 11: Shapes of Hope

    It's been three years since the last episode of Blood and Truth, and Tommy Zeigler is still on death row. But with the election of a new state attorney comes fresh hope for the DNA testing Ziegler says could set him free after nearly five decades behind bars. Here's the latest.



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    26 June 2023, 4:01 am
  • 31 minutes 9 seconds
    Chapter 10: Another Chance
    Tommy Zeigler waited on Florida’s death row last year with hope that there would be another chance to test the evidence in his case. Listen to what happened.

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    24 February 2020, 11:00 am
  • 28 seconds
    Coming soon: Chapter 10
    Will prosecutors give Tommy Zeigler another chance at DNA testing?

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    18 February 2020, 1:00 pm
  • 56 minutes 48 seconds
    Chapter nine: A Q&A
    Listen to Pulitzer Prize winner Leonora LaPeter Anton talk about what didn’t make it into this series, what’s happening with the Tommy Zeigler case and thoughts about his guilt or innocence.

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    19 February 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 35 minutes 47 seconds
    Chapter eight: Finality versus fairness
    Florida’s judicial system is designed to support a jury’s verdict, whether it was right or wrong.

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    12 February 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 33 minutes 13 seconds
    Chapter seven: On the row
    Tommy Zeigler has spent more than four decades living in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell and trying not to get angry.

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    5 February 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 34 minutes
    Chapter six: Poking holes in the case
    Tommy Zeigler's supporters have spent years chasing clues and re-investigating the murders. Listen to what they've uncovered.

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    29 January 2019, 9:00 pm
  • 31 minutes 10 seconds
    Chapter five: DNA denied
    The advent of modern forensic science gives Tommy Zeigler hope, but prosecutors and judges keep rejecting his requests for DNA testing.

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    22 January 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 20 minutes 26 seconds
    Chapter four: A split jury
    One juror struggles to make a decision and feels badgered by others who think the evidence is clear in Tommy Zeigler's case.

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    15 January 2019, 12:00 pm
  • 29 minutes 36 seconds
    Chapter three: Trial and errors
    Prosecutors present the case against Tommy Zeigler, as his defense team scrambles to vet witnesses and get evidence tested.

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    8 January 2019, 3:00 pm
  • 21 minutes 51 seconds
    Chapter two: Murder near the Magic Kingdom
    Winter Garden, Fla., a rural town in central Florida, is rattled by the slayings at a furniture store, and the police investigation zeros in on Tommy Zeigler.

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    1 January 2019, 3:00 pm
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