Platt also testified to the result of the gunshot residue tests on the hands of Charlie Mays, Virginia Edwards, and Perry Edwards.2  The residue on Mays's hands indicated that he had fired a gun.  The residue on Mrs. Edwards's right hand could be explained by powder tattooing from a gunshot wound on her right hand.  (Frye believed that she was holding her hands to her head when she as executed at close range.)

But the distribution patterns of the residue on Perry Edwards's hands strongly suggest that he had handled or fired a weapon.  That, in turn, suggested that the sequence of the murders was far more complex that the reconstruction of Fry or Herbert MacDonell.

Thomas Gerald Ford, a dentist with forensic training (and a nephew of the incumbent U.S. President), examined the tooth found along the north wall at the rear of the showroom.  He said the tooth was from the upper left of a human jaw, "middle weight, middle-aged, most probably a black individual."  This described Charlie Mays, and it was consistent with the empty socket in Mays's jaw.

Hadley gave Ford a crime scene photograph of Mays's corpse.  The photo showed a loose tooth on his blue hooded sweatshirt.  Ford had studied the enlargements of the photo.  He told Hadley that the tooth in evidence, which he held in his hand, "is not the tooth on that parka."

Don Frye appeared for brief, mostly inconsequential testimony the morning of Wednesday, June 23.  He testified about the handwritten consent form Zeigler signed on Christmas morning, and about driving the routes that Felton Thomas and Edward Williams described in their statements.  This testimony was mostly for the purpose of introducing an aerial photo of Winter Garden with a plastic overlay that traced the routes in two colors.

This device would help to clear up the potentially confusing testimony about the various trips around town.  Frye did not present his time-line study, with good reason: strong defense testimony would show that Williams did not appear at the Kentucky Fried Chicken until after 9:00, a time that was awkward for the state's reconstruction of the crime.

Eagan wrapped up his case shortly before the noon recess on the 23rd.

George Henry, the insurance agent who had sold Zeigler one of the two $250,000 policies on Eunice's life, had testified late Tuesday. Now the other agent, Russell Courtney, filled in details of the second large policy on Eunice's life.  The two agents' testimony was that neither was aware of the other

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2   Neither Edward Williams nor Felton Thomas was tested.