Ruiz counted seventeen contusions, abrasions, and lacerations along the left side of his face and at the top of his head.  But there were no underlying fractures—his wounds were mostly superficial.

The blunt trauma injuries of Charlie Mays, however, were deep and brutal.  One blow to his left eye had fractured the orbit and pushed the bone into the cavity beneath it.  The wound measured about two by three inches.  The left side of his face was shattered from the upper jaw to the eye.  Fractured bone lay beneath four distinct lacerations of his face, forehead, and scalp.

Dr. Ruiz removed Mays's brain and found that the fractures extended to the anterior fossae, the front of the brain pan in the cranium.  The base of the skull was traumatized and broken.

Mays was five feet eight, 140 pounds.  There were abrasions and swelling on his right hand, possibly from a blunt object.  He had one empty socket in his jaw, the left top canine tooth.

Ruiz used metal probes to trace the paths of two through-and-through wounds in Mays's abdomen.  Mays had been shot once in the back, once in the front abdomen.  One wound was superficial.  The other bullet had passed through his liver.  But Ruiz found only about 200 cc of blood in the peritoneum.  This meant that neither wound had been fatal.  Charlie Mays had been beaten to death by someone swinging a blunt object, probably the linoleum crank that was fund beside him.

Mays's gunshot wounds were about the same size and circumference as those on the other bodies; apparently everyone had been shot and killed by .38 caliber bullets.

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Early Christmas morning, the OCSO took custody of the clothes that Tommy Zeigler had been wearing when he was taken to the hospital.  A nurse had picked them up off the floor of the emergency room, put them in a plastic bag, and given the bag to Beulah Zeigler, who apparently gave it to one of Tommy's cousins, L.M. Zeigler, at the hospital.  He brought them home and left them outside, in his van.

He was awakened that night by a call from the Winter Garden police, asking him to return the bag to the hospital.  He did.  The bag was placed at the second-floor nurse's station, and an OCSO technician.  Harry Park, retrieved it there.  Park found the clothes jumbled together in the bag, so he put each item  into a separate paper bag, then took them to headquarters, where he laid them out to dry.

Don Frye inspected the clothing.  He saw that the left underarm of Zeigler's long-sleeved shirt was deeply stained with blood.  Frye believed that much of that blood was from Perry Edwards.  Edwards had been shot through one ear, and ears