WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – For the first time in decades, a judge will re-examine key evidence in the murder case of Tommy Zeigler, who has been on death row since being convicted in the 1975 slayings of four people in Winter Garden.

The longest-serving inmate on Florida’s death row is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m. Monday as his attorneys argue that new DNA results could prove his innocence.

Zeigler, now 80 years old, was convicted of killing his wife, his in-laws and a customer inside his Winter Garden furniture store on Christmas Eve 1975.

Zeigler has maintained that he walked in on a robbery and was attacked, but he was convicted of murder in 1976 and has been on death row ever since.

At Monday’s hearing, the court will review the latest DNA testing from clothing worn by all fo

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