Bolin was also previously convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins the same year in Tampa.
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The Catholic bishops of Florida have urged the state’s Governor Rick Scott to stop capital punishment, with the execution of a convicted criminal scheduled for January 7. Rolled up inside the bouquet was the newly signed death warrant for convicted serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin.
Reeves says it doesn’t matter that Bolin isn’t facing the death penalty for all three cases since, she said, “He only dies once”.
Florida is set to execute Bolin Thursday for the 1986 beating and stabbing death of Reeves’ daughter, Teri Lynn Matthews.
Those convictions were eventually overturned – twice – but Bolin was eventually found guilty and condemned to die at his third retrial for Matthews’ death.
Ten months earlier, Collins had disappeared from a shopping center parking lot in Carrollwood.
Bolin’s trials received widespread publicity in the Tampa Bay area – but not just because of the seemingly endless legal processes or the brutal nature of the killings.
The boyfriend dashed out to retrace Matthews’ route, which would have taken her from the bank in Tampa to the Pasco County post office where her family kept a mailbox and where she often collected mail on her way to of from work.
Bolin’s death sentence in the Matthews case was upheld in 2004 after three trials.
When he was charged in 1990, Bolin was serving a 22- to 75-year prison sentence in OH for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old waitress near Toledo. During the trial, Bolin’s younger half brother said he watched Bolin beat Matthews and try to drown her with a garden hose.
“He dies for all of our girls”.
Officers were called to the building by the apartment’s owner who had gone to collect unpaid rent but detected loud noises inside and was denied access, news agency Europa Press said, citing police sources.
“I know there have been problems with the manufacturers of the drugs being sold in the U.S.”, Brunvard said.
Bolin’s attorney, Bjorn Brunvand, said Thursday afternoon that he has filed an appeal for a stay of execution with the U.S. Supreme Court.
“We’re running out of time, so we may file with the Supreme Court before we hear from them”.
Rosalie Bolin has declined to speak about her husband’s pending execution. “I’ll probably think about it more when we get to that point”.
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“He’s a sociopath”, she said.
