a certain amount of blood" around the edges of the bullet hole in the front of Zeigler's shirt.  As she cut the shirt away, she said, Robert Thompson kept asking Zeigler. "Who did it?" to which Zeigler mumbled the answer, "Charlie, Charlie." He was not in shock, she said.

Under Hadley's cross-examination, she said that Zeigler's shirt was dry when she cut it off.

"I didn't get any blood on my hands," she told Hadley.

Curtis Dunaway said that he had seen surgical gloves around the furniture store, but that they weren't used for anything, as far as he knew.  Dunaway had been very cooperative with the defense during the days immediately after the murders, but his relations with the Zeiglers deteriorated, and he quit his job around the end of January.  Now, on direct examination, he repeated his grand jury testimony about the exchange of the automobiles.  He identified the four bodies and the linoleum crank in the state's photographs.  He identified Zeigler's shoulder holster, and the wall clock, and the photograph of his own Oldsmobile.

Dr. Ruiz testified for several hours the next day, on the wounds and the cause of death of each of the four victims.  He used graphic slides, which Hadley tried to keep out of evidence, arguing that their emotional impact outweighed their probative value.  But Paul denied the motion.  Zeigler looked away from the screen as Ruiz pointed at details in the photos.  Perry Edwards, Jr. who attended every day of the trial, stood up and left the courtroom.

In cross-examination, Ruiz told Hadley that he found one empty socket in Mays’s mouth; an upper canine.  This was a foundation for the defense's argument that two teeth were found in the store, with the implication that one of them must have come from the mouth of another perpetrator.  Eagan, on redirect, brought out that other teeth were missing from Mays's mouth; but these, apparently were long-gone molars.

Ted Van Deventer's testimony on Friday afternoon ended the first week of the trial. He described Zeigler's telling him on the telephone that he had been shot.  He said that shortly afterward, at the hospital emergency room, he and Mickey Fisher recovered a small key pouch from Zeigler's pants; these were the keys to the Dunaway car.

Monday morning, Robert Thompson told how Zeigler had approached him about attending the Van Deventers' party.  He picked up the chronology of Christmas Eve: seeing the Edwardses' car in front of the furniture store at 8:30, after his meeting with Jimmy Yawn at the Kentucky Fried Chicken; his visit to the party as Zeigler's emergency call came in; seeing the blood splatters on Zeigler's face after he unlocked the door of the store.  Zeigler's clothing bore dry and damp blood, he said.  The blood around the exit wound was almost dry; the wound was not bleeding.