The 2nd Location

Is the execution of the innocent just an unavoidable by-product of the criminal justice system? On Christmas Eve 1975 4 people are found murdered in an Orlando, Florida furniture store. The police quickly focus on the store owner, who was shot but survived. Is Tommy Zeigler guilty of a quadruple murder or a man unjustly condemned to death? This episode explores the police's initial arrival on the...

Tommy Zeigler was convicted of murdering 4 people in 1976 and given a death sentence. He still sits on death row 46 years later. In Florida, where they actually execute people. Why is Tommy still alive? Because he is most likely innocent. For this first episode my source was mainly the book by Phillip Finch, The Fatal Flaw.  Please read it. The value of a man's life is too much to be ignored.

My first episode focused on The Boy in the Box, but America's Unknown Child is no longer unknown he has a name and its Joseph Augustus Zarelli. On December 8th 2022 Philadelphia police held a press conference to announce his name, and now its time to find his killer.

In 1957 the naked, lifeless body of a little boy was found stuffed inside a cardboard box in a thicket alongside a road in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Despite the best efforts of local law enforcement the boy's identity was never uncovered. He is buried in a grave marked with a headstone that reads "America's Unknown Child."  For 65 years the boy has remained nameless.  According to law enforceme...