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Convicted murderer Tommy Zeigler — who has been on Florida’s Death Row nearly 50 years , longer than any other inmate — listened intently on Monday as his attorneys laid out the case that recent DNA tests of blood samples taken at a gruesome crime scene prove the furniture store owner could not have killed his wife, in-laws and a customer on Christmas Eve 1975.

“They got the wrong person,” attorney Dennis Tracey said in the Orange County courtroom. “Tommy Zeigler was not the perpetrator, but the victim. … We believe that these DNA tests will show that Mr. Zeiger could not have committed these crimes.”

Tracey called Zeigler’s 1976 trial “a travesty of justice” in which he was found guilty in the shooting deaths of his wife, Eunice, and mothe

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