Forty-seven

The principals in the case went about their lives.

Shortly after the trial, Don Frye became a state attorney's investigator.  He is still with that office, where he hold an administrative job.

Robert Eagan left office in 1990, and now is a partner in a law firm in Orlando.

Terry Hadley accepted one more criminal defense and then quit the practice.  He is a successful civil attorney in Orange County.

Edward Williams lives in Orlando.  In 1986, when Zeigler's death was imminent, he told an interviewer from the Sentinel, "Zeigler messed himself up.  He was a big man in Winter Garden.  Big man.  I'd be working for him still.  But he tried to move too fast.  Wanted the whole world.  His wife, she was a fine lady.  Always good to me.  He killed her.  Killer her.  Zeigler.  That kid, he's all done now."

Jimmy Yawn became chief of police of Winter Garden, a position he held as of the spring of 1992.

Robert Thompson's resignation from the Oakland Police Department became effective during the trial.  He and his family later left Orange County.

Felton Thomas's whereabouts are unknown.

Maurice Paul is now a U.S. district court judge in Jacksonville.

After the death of her husband, Beulah lived alone in her home on Temple Grove Drive.  She twice underwent treatment for breast cancer.

Mattie Mays received an undisclosed sum in an out-of-court settlement of her lawsuit against the Zeiglers.  The suit and countersuit involving the Zeiglers and the two insurance companies was also settled out of court, with Mrs. Zeigler receiving an undisclosed portion of the benefits.

Gene Annan was hospitalized with severe stomach ulcers shortly after the trial ended.  He never investigated another case, and is now a computer programmer who specializes in custom billing software for physicians and attorneys.  He considers the case an affront to logic and justice.  "The prosecution put on two hundred-some pieces of physical evidence, and none of it proves that Tommy Zeigler was guilty. The jurors saw all these guns and all this bloody clothing, and they figured that it must mean something.  They threw up their hands and voted to convict, and they gave him life so that somebody else could come along and figure it out.