After nearly 50 years on Florida’s death row, convicted murderer Tommy Zeigler will get what his attorneys say is his last chance at winning freedom.

Circuit Court Judge Leticia Marques on Tuesday agreed to hold an evidentiary hearing that will consider the most recent DNA results from the bloody 1975 crime scene. Hundreds of samples of clothing and other items were collected where four people — Zeigler’s wife, in-laws and a customer — were killed on Christmas Eve that year at his family’s Winter Garden furniture store.

The hearing is scheduled to begin Dec. 1 at the Orange County Courthouse and will likely last a week.

“This is absolutely fabulous news for Mr. Zeigler,” said Terry Hadley, the attorney who has represented Zeigler since his 1976 trial. “We’ve been trying for years and ye

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