Churchill asked: "Does he want us to take the case, or does he just want technical assistance?"

Justice relayed the question to Ficke.

"I want you to take it," Ficke said.  "I want you to take the whole thing."

Justice told Churchill the answer.  Then he stepped out of his car and addressed Ficke and the others.  He ordered that nobody else enter the store; the crime scene now belonged to the OCSO--the Orange County sheriff's office.

*

Ted Van Deventer and Mickey Fisher drove together to 75 Temple Grove Drive, the home of Tommy Zeigler.  They got no answer at the front door.  The garage was closed, with a light on inside.

They went next door to the house of Tom and Beulah Zeigler.  Tom was already asleep for the night; Beulah has just been called by a cousin of Tommy's who had been listening to a radio scanner.

She left for the hospital with Van Deventer and Mickey Fisher, without disturbing her husband.  At the hospital they met Dr. Albert Gleason, the Zeiglers' family physician.  Gleason allowed Mrs. Zeigler to see Tommy for a few minutes while he was being prepped for surgery.

Ted Van Deventer and Mickey Fisher were worried about Eunice.  They wanted to be able to enter the Zeigler home, so they persuaded a nurse to bring them Tommy's pants, from which they took a key case.  One of the keys in the case looked as if it might belong to a front door.

Meanwhile, Beulah Zeigler tried to speak to her son just before he was taken away.  His voice was weak and his breathing was shallow.  She asked him where Eunice was.

He squinted to look at her—he had no glasses.

"Isn't she with you?" he said.

*

By now people were gathering around the front of the store, and more Winter Garden patrolmen had arrived.  Ficke sent Thompson and a Winter Garden patrolman named Revels to check on Curtis Dunaway.  The sheriff's crime scene unit was en route from Orlando.

Mickey Fisher and Ted Van Deventer returned from the hospital and told Ficke that they hadn't found Eunice or her parents.  Yawn described the young woman in the store, but nobody seemed to associate her with Eunice.  Apparently Don Ficke did not make the connection.