Fatal Flaw
A True Story of Malice and Murder in a Small Southern Town
- Crime and Prosecution - Page 47
TIME SEQUENCE: FELTON THOMAS
Thomas gave no specific times or intervals. Don Frye reconstructed a time line, on the premise that Thomas and Charlie Mays arrived at the furniture store around 7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m. Mays and Thomas are at store. Store is dark, Zeigler is gone. Edwardses’ car is parked out front.
7:35 p.m. Zeigler drives up and parks beside Mays’s van. Mays and Thomas leave with Zeigler in his car. Mays and Thomas fire pistols in the orange grove.
7:40 p.m. Back to the furniture store. Thomas pulls electrical switch, Zeigler attempts to break into the store, Mays objects. They drive to Zeigler’s house.
7:50 p.m. The three arrive at Zeigler’s house. Zeigler comes out of garage with a box of ammunition, tells Mays to reload. They return to store.
8:00 p.m. Mays and Zeigler enter the furniture store. Thomas refuses, runs away, finds a ride back to Oakland.
2:30 a.m. Thomas turns himself in to OSCO patrolman near Orlando.
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