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    Defense attorney arrested in sting at adult theater

    By Thomas Kaplan
    The Tampa Bay Times

    TAMPA — Criminal defense attorney Victor D. Martinez, whose wife famously left him more than a decade ago for a serial killer, faces a charge of exposing himself at an adult movie theater.

    Martinez's wife of 17 years, Rosalie, left him for Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., who was sentenced to death in the early 1990s for the slayings of three young women. She fell in love with Bolin while working on his case in the Hillsborough County Public Defender's Office and later married him.

    On May 21, Martinez approached a plainclothes police officer at the Playhouse Adult Theater, 4221 N Hubert Ave., while fondling himself, according to a police report.

    Martinez was charged with exposure of sexual organs, a misdemeanor. The attorney "spontaneously stated that he was sorry, and he would be willing to work off the charges," the report said.

    The sting was part of a broader operation in the Drew Park neighborhood that also led to the arrest of the general manager of Fox's WTVT-Ch. 13 and five other men inside an adult video store last month, said Andrea Davis, a police spokeswoman.

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...theater/611282
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    Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. executed after four-hour delay for final appeal

    By Dan Sullivan and Sara DiNatale
    The Tampa Bay Times

    STARKE — The long wait for justice for the families of three young women brutally murdered in the bay area in 1986 is finally over. Serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. was executed Thursday night three decades after his crimes.

    Bolin, 53, was pronounced dead at 10:16 p.m.

    Minutes before, a prison official asked Bolin if he had any last words.

    "No sir," Bolin said.

    Family members of Natalie Blanche Holley, 25; Stephanie Collins, 17; and Teri Lynn Matthews, 26; all watched on silently as their killer was executed by lethal injection at Florida State Prison. There were 36 witnesses. Some cried.

    Afterward, Matthews' mother Kathleen Reeves thanked a key witness against Bolin: his half-brother Phillip Bolin. He testified that in 1986 he watched Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. brutally beat a woman wrapped in a sheet. It was her daughter.

    "God bless you Phillip for your courage," Reeves said, "and for doing the right thing."

    The families endured decades of legal wrangling as Bolin was tried and found guilty 10 separate times for the three murders. It was the murder of Matthews, the last of his victims in 1986, that resulted in Gov. Rick Scott signing Bolin's first death warrant in October.

    But the families found themselves facing one last delay Thursday. The U.S. Supreme Court spent four hours mulling Bolin's final appeal well past his scheduled 6 p.m. execution time.

    The justices denied the appeal just before 10 p.m. Injections of the chemicals midazolam hydrochloride, vecuronium bromide, and potassium chloride started at 10:05 p.m.

    Bolin's eyes closed, and not a minute later his mouth fell wide open.

    A prison official shook Bolin by the shoulders at 10:09 p.m. No response.

    His breathing grew more labored. He appeared to stop breathing by 10:13 p.m.

    The doctor entered the execution chamber at 10:15 p.m.

    Bolin's execution day preparations started Thursday when he awoke at 6 a.m., according to prison officials. He spent three hours with his wife, Rosalie Bolin, from 8 to 11 a.m. She was a former member of his defense team who left her prominent Tampa husband to marry Bolin a decade ago. A TV audience of 12 million watched their wedding in 1996.

    From noon to 2 p.m., Bolin met with his spiritual adviser, Brother Dale Rosenelli. A prison official said that Bolin was "calm and in good spirits."

    Then Bolin ate his last meal: a rib eye steak, medium rare; a baked potato with butter and sour cream; a salad made of iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tomato; baked garlic bread; lemon meringue pie; and a bottle of Coca-Cola.

    Bolin ate half the steak and potato, officials said, nibbled on the salad, drank half his coke and finished his slice of pie.

    His path to Florida's death row began in 1990, when an anonymous caller to an Indiana Crime Stoppers tip line implicated him in the three unsolved murders of young women in the bay area.

    Holley, a night manager at a Church's Fried Chicken in Tampa, vanished after finishing her shift there Jan. 25, 1986.

    She was found later that day in an orange grove off Debuel Road, east of U.S. 41. She had been stabbed 10 times.

    Collins, a senior who sang in the chorus at Chamberlain High School, was last seen walking to her car outside the Carrollwood drug store where she worked.

    Her body was found a month later on Dec. 5, 1986 off Morris Bridge Road, wrapped in sheets and towels. She had been stabbed, her skull crushed.

    That was the same day Matthews disappeared. She never arrived at her parents' Pasco County home after she finished the night shift at a Tampa bank.

    Her car was found with the engine still running outside the Land O'Lakes post office on U.S. 41. Her body was found the day she disappeared, Dec. 5, 1986, wrapped in a damp white sheet in the woods off Coon Hide Road, west of U.S. 41. Her throat had been cut, her head bludgeoned.

    The tip that led local investigators to Bolin came from the new husband of his ex-wife. Bolin, a former carnival worker, was serving time in an Ohio prison for a 1987 rape. In that case, Bolin kidnapped a 20-year-old woman, forced her into the cab of a semitrailer truck with two other men inside, and assaulted her as they rolled across the state. He let her go in Pennsylvania.

    When he was brought back to Florida, a task force looked to connect Bolin to slayings in 26 states. But he was only officially linked to just one other. His cousin, Douglas Tedrow, told detectives that he and Bolin kidnapped and raped Deborah Diane Stowe, 30, in 1987 in Greenville, Texas, before Bolin strangled her.

    While awaiting his first murder trial, Bolin concocted an elaborate escape plan that involved kidnapping and holding hostage the relatives of then-Hillsborough Sheriff Walter Heinrich and high-ranking sheriff's officials. The plot netted Bolin a 15-year sentence.

    The Bolin case captured national attention when the condemned man married in 1996. Rosalie Bolin once bragged that her notoriety would afford him "a rich man's justice."

    Still, in retrial after retrial, the state doggedly pursed the death penalty for Bolin.

    In the Matthews case, Phillip Bolin, the younger half-brother, repeatedly testified about the night his brother woke him, brought him outside his home, and showed him a body wrapped in a sheet. He heard a whimpering noise.

    He said his older brother claimed it was a woman who had been shot in a drug deal outside the Land O'Lakes post office. Phillip Bolin said he watched his brother try to drown her with a garden hose and beat her with a wood club.

    Robert Dunham, head of the Death Penalty Information Center, said it's not unusual for the U.S. Supreme Court to delay executions at the last minute.

    "They're aware of when the execution is scheduled to start and they're aware that what they do has life or death implication," he said, "but they nonetheless will take a look at it."

    Standing outside the prison, Donna Witmer, the mother of Stephanie Collins, talked about her daughter.

    "We all miss Stephanie everyday," Witmer said. "I can't have her back but I'll have sweet memories."

    Reeves, 78, said goodbye to her daughter, Matthews.

    "We miss you Teri," she said. "You were the sunshine in our lives.

    "Rest in peace my darling daughter."

    http://www.tampabay.com/news/publics...upreme/2260491
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    ‘He dies for all of our girls’: America’s first execution of 2016 ends life of notorious serial killer

    A SERIAL killer who murdered three young women and later married a member of his defence team in a televised ceremony on death row has been executed in Florida.

    Former carnival worker and truck driver Oscar Ray Bolin, 53, became the first to be executed in the United States this year after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke.

    Family members of two of Bolin’s victims, all of whom were killed in the Tampa Bay area, were reportedly present during the execution and watched him die as his “chest heaved”.

    Governor Rick Scott’s office said Bolin was pronounced dead at 10.16pm local time on Thursday (2.16am AEDT Friday).

    The scheduled 6pm execution was delayed until the US Supreme Court rejected without comment Bolin’s final appeal.

    The death warrant Mr Scott signed in October was for the 1986 slaying of 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews who was abducted from a post office in Pasco County, just north of Tampa.

    Bolin was also sentenced to death for the killing of 17-year-old Stephanie Collins.

    A jury also gave him the death penalty for killing 25-year-old Natalie Holley, but that verdict was thrown out because of legal errors. All three women were stabbed.

    Another jury eventually found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Holley case.

    Bolin was also convicted of kidnapping and rape in another case.

    Ms Matthews’ mother, Kathleen Reeves, and Ms Collins’ family attended the execution.

    Ms Reeves told The Associated Press it didn’t matter that Bolin was not executed for all three cases “because he only dies once”.

    “He dies for all of our girls,” Ms Reeves said.

    Bolin said “no sir” when asked if he wanted to make a final statement.

    The execution procedure took about 12 minutes, during which Bolin’s chest heaved for several minutes as he took a number of deep breaths.

    On Wednesday, Bolin told the Fox 13 television station that he was innocent and evidence used to convict him was both tampered with and planted.

    “I didn’t know ‘em, never seen ‘em, never met ‘em,” he said of the three victims.

    “My conscience is clear,” he told the TV station.

    “I’m at peace with myself. It’s my release. My punishment’s over. After 28 years of this, being in this box for 28 years, it’s a release. My punishment’s over. They can’t hurt me no more.” While on trial, Bolin and a woman on his defence team fell in love.

    Rosalie Martinez had been a paralegal at the Hillsborough Public Defender’s office who was married to a prominent Tampa lawyer.

    Ms Martinez divorced him and married Bolin, on live TV, in 1996, 10 years after the slayings.

    Rosalie maintained that her husband was innocent in Ms Matthews’ killing, and went on to become one of the state’s most outspoken death penalty opponents since her marriage.

    She campaigned for two decades to save him.

    The three Tampa-area killings went unsolved until someone called an anonymous tip line in 1990, when Bolin was already serving a 22-to-75-year prison sentence in Ohio for kidnapping and raping a 20-year-old waitress outside Toledo in 1987.

    Authorities later discovered it was the new husband of Bolin’s ex-wife who called in the tip; the ex-wife said Bolin had told her about the killings in 1986.

    During the trial, Bolin’s younger half brother said he watched Bolin beat Ms Matthews and try to drown her with a garden hose, but later recanted his story, then reversed his position again.

    Bolin was also officially linked to just one other murder: the strangulation of Deborah Diane Stowe, 30, in 1987 in Greenville, Texas.

    His cousin told authorities that he and Bolin abducted Ms Stowe outside a convenience store and raped her in a truck before Bolin killed her.

    Texas prosecutors declined to seek an indictment.

    All of Bolin’s convictions were reversed at least twice due to legal errors, but new juries found him guilty again in all three cases.

    Twenty-eight people were executed in the United States in 2015, the lowest figure since 1991, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

    http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/rea...c719b325677667

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    Hi . I see Mr Bolin's wife was not allowed to attend the execution , according to state law . Can anybody perhaps indicate who is allowed to attend the execution ?

    and is this much different from other states ?

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