A: Well, I didn't count them but I know there were more than the first time.  I would say probably six or seven.

Barbara Woodard, who had stopped at the Tri-City shopping center on Christmas Eve, testified that she and a friend happened to look across Dillard Street before she pulled out.  She said she saw a tall, short-haired white man standing in the door of the furniture store. Two cars were parked in front of the store, one of them a large Ford with the parking lights turned on.  She estimated that the time was about twenty minutes before eight.

Terry Hadley reminded her that in her original statement to the police she had said that the man at the door was wearing a dark jacket, blue or black.  She did not dispute that description now.  Hadley pointed out that in her deposition she had placed the time of this sighting simply between 7:00 and 8:00, while in her sworn statement to Frye she had given the time as 8:00 to 8:30.  She explained the discrepancy by saying that Frye made her nervous, "same way you are doing."

Kathy Clark, the intensive care nurse, testified about the handwritten consent form that Zeigler signed in her presence on Christmas morning.

Now Eagan shifted from eyewitness.  Three OCSO technicians testified about finding and seizing evidence at the store, and making fingerprint lifts.  The next day—Wednesday, June 16—was spent almost entirely on technical matters and arguments on the admissibility of fingerprints found in the store on the Dunaway automobile.  James Murray, the OCSO's latent print examiner, testified that he did not identify any fingerprints of Edward Williams or Felton Thomas among prints lifted in the store.

Murray ended the first week of testimony.  In that time, the most damaging evidence against Zeigler had been Barbara Woodard's, and she had not positively identified Zeigler, but only described seeing a man who generally resembled him.  The state had not remotely connected Zeigler to the murders.  On Thursday morning, the lead witness would be Tom Delaney, the FBI Lab's shoe print expert, who had found that the ripple-sole prints in blood, near the body of Perry Edwards, were not made by Zeigler's shoes.  Hadley expected Delaney to put even more distance between his client and a guilty verdict.

The momentum of the trial was about to change, irreversibly.