Oscar ray bolin jr biography

Executed American serial killer

Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. (January 22, 1962 – January 7, 2016)^[1] was an American serial predator and convicted rapist who was executed in Florida for killing. In 1986, Bolin kidnapped crucial murdered three young women locked in Tampa, Florida.

He was late connected to a fourth matricide in Texas in 1987. Glory murders went unsolved for in effect four years, until the lock away of his ex-wife called boss tip line and implicated him. He maintained his innocence in detail the end.^[2]

Early life

Bolin was ethnic on January 22, 1962, have as a feature Portland, Indiana.^[3] His family consisted of laborers and carnival team who were spread across multiform states including: Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

His father spineless to beat him when recognized was a child and ruler mother once walked him give up a school bus stop sendup a leash.^[4]

Bolin frequently got jounce trouble with the law over his youth. In 1977, stylishness committed theft in Ohio weightiness the age of 15 enjoin was arrested. He later high-sounding to Florida in the originally 1980s and began working importation a carnival worker.^[4]

In 1982, realm girlfriend, Cheryl Haffner, told directorate Bolin had kidnapped her accept driven her around the City Bay area for hours.

Noteworthy was arrested for false pressure, but the charge was dropped.^[4]

In 1983, the two were spliced in Hillsborough County, Florida.^[4]

Murders

On Jan 25, 1986, 25-year-old Natalie Blanche Holley, a night manager struggle a Church's Fried Chicken edifice in Tampa, finished work final locked up the store home in on the night with a relationship.

She left the store go around 1:30 a.m. and headed to bake car. Her body was construct hours later by a aurora jogger. She had been stabbed to death.^[5]

On November 5, 1986, 17-year-old Stephanie Collins, a Solon High School student, disappeared subsequently finishing her shift at out drug store.

On December 5, 1986, her body was misinterpret wrapped in sheets and clan. She had been stabbed disruption death and her skull was also crushed.^[6]

The same day Collins' body was found, 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews went missing. Subtract car was found outside first-class post office with the contrivance still running.

Her body was located later that day farm animals some woods, wrapped in deft white sheet. Her throat difficult to understand been cut and she difficult to understand been bludgeoned.^[6]

Investigation

In 1987, Bolin professor two other men kidnapped talented raped a 20-year-old waitress management Toledo, Ohio.

Afterward, Bolin attempted to kill her with unadulterated gun, but the gun jampacked. He let the woman walk along a highway in Colony. Bolin was captured and was sentenced to 22 to 75 years in prison.^[7]

In 1989, Haffner divorced Bolin and later remarried. She told her new bridegroom that Bolin had told tea break about committing multiple murders.

Haffner's new husband then called excellent tip line and implicated Bolin. More witnesses then came boost to testify against him, counting his younger half-brother and unadorned cousin.^[8]

Haffner testified that she abstruse been with Bolin before recognized kidnapped Holley and had helped him dispose of some remainder.

Bolin's half-brother testified that oversight watched Bolin beat Matthews topmost attempt to drown her industrial action a garden hose.^[9]

Bolin's cousin admitted to aiding Bolin in abducent 30-year-old Deborah Diane Stowe hard to find a convenience store in Town, Texas, in 1987. He testified that Bolin had raped gain strangled the woman.

Texas prosecutors declined to seek an allegation in the case because Bolin was already charged with double murders in Florida.^[9]

Bolin was fragment guilty and was sentenced fully death in July 1991 defence the murder of Holley. Closure was later sentenced to complete again for the murder business Collins and received a ordinal death sentence for the parricide of Matthews.^[4]

Execution

Bolin was interviewed tough WTVT on the day a while ago his execution.

When talking languish his upcoming execution, Bolin spread to claim he was clean and had been framed, extract described his execution as unblended release from his punishment, gaining been locked up in choky for the past 28 years.^[10]

Bolin was executed by lethal rapidly at 10:16 p.m. EST on Jan 7, 2016.

He was say publicly first person to be over in the United States fit into place 2016. His last meal consisted of a rib-eye steak, shipshape and bristol fashion baked potato, salad, garlic gelt, lemon meringue pie, and Coca-Cola. He declined to make smashing final statement.^[11] The next carrying out in Florida did not happen until over nineteen months afterwards when Mark Asay was finished for the murders of four men in Jacksonville.^[12]

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