Sorry this is posted late (I posted these on wrong thread by mistake) :doh:
Florida Man Who Killed 3 Women Scheduled for Execution
"Oscar Ray Bolin was first found guilty of murdering three women nearly 30 years ago. In the decades since, every one of the verdicts delivered by juries in three separate trials was reversed at least twice by appeals courts, although ultimately he was convicted again in each case: 10 times by 10 juries, to be exact.
It now appears Bolin's legal pleas are coming to an end.
Unless an appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court steps in, Bolin, 53, will be executed Thursday at 6 p.m. in Florida State Prison for the 1986 slaying of Teri Lynn Matthews..."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/f...ution-36112496
Oscar Ray BOLIN Jr.
"Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Long-haul trucker - Rape
Number of victims: 3 +
Date of murders: January 25/November 5/December 5, 1986
Date of arrest: July 1990
Date of birth: January 22, 1962
Victims profile: Stephanie Anne Collins, 17 / Natalie "Blanche" Holley, 25 / Teri Lynn Matthews, 26
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife - Beating over the head
Location: Florida, USA
Status: Sentenced to death. Sentenced to life in prison..."
http://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bolin-oscar.htm
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Long wait for justice nears end for families of serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.'s victims (with clip)
"For Kathleen Reeves, the pain has never gone away.
Not after she buried her 26-year-old daughter in 1986. Not after her killer was tried and convicted the first time, and then twice more. Not after he drew three death sentences.
And Reeves has no reason to think the pain will end Thursday, when she plans to watch Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. die.
"It will never be over," she said last week while visiting her daughter's grave in Spring Hill...
The grave lies in the shade of two tall oaks with Spanish moss dangling from their branches. A placard notes that she was a beloved daughter. Above her name is an inscription:
Step Softly.
A Dream
Lies Buried
Here."
http://www.tampabay.com/news/humanin...ar-ray/2259821
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Florida serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.'s date with death finally nears
".."The bride stood in a pink gown beside a priest in a Gainesville apartment. A 5x7 photograph of the groom sat on the kitchen counter. His voice was piped in on a speakerphone, a collect call from the Pasco County jail.
That's how 12 million TV viewers watched serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. say "I do."
The 1996 wedding of Bolin and Rosalie Martinez, a onetime member of his defense team who left her prominent lawyer-husband to marry a man destined for death row, was a spectacle recounted in countless news stories.
But before the bizarre nuptials, before the murder trials, the retrials and appeals, before the eight death sentences and two life sentences, there was the long-haul truck driver known as "Needles" and the three young women who had the misfortune of crossing his path.
Bolin, 53, is now set to die by lethal injection on Jan. 7..."
(Natalie Blanche Holley, 25, was the first of three area women killed by Oscar Ray Bolin Jr.)
(Stephanie Anne Collins, 17, was last seen at a Carrollwood drugstore where she worked.)
(Teri Lynn Matthews, 26, disappeared after working the night shift at a Tampa bank)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts...olin-jr-date-with-death-finally-nears/2259073