3-time convicted killer Oscar Ray Bolin scheduled…
“Yes I’m going to watch and I don’t know how I’m going to act”.
On Thursday, in a small white room with the family members of all three victims looking on, Bolin will be injected with a series of drugs meant to kill him.
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. The inspector general did not single out the Bolin investigations, but said all of the cases Malone investigated should be reviewed.
“It made kind of a mockery of the whole thing”, Kathleen Reeves, Matthews’ mother, told the Tampa Bay Times.
On Wednesday Bolin’s attorney Bjorn Brunvand told 8 On Your Side he was still waiting for a response to his final appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Scott has overseen the most executions of any governor in Florida since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
“I hope to have a big bonfire in my pit out here when this is all over”, she said.
She served as a “mitigation specialist” on his defense team before falling in love with Bolin, divorcing her husband and marrying the convicted killer by telephone while he was behind bars.
He has also been convicted of the murder of two other young women, Stephanie Collins and Natalie Holley, in the same year.
Reeves said it doesn’t matter that Bolin is not awaiting execution in all three cases “because he only dies once”.
He is serving a life sentence for the January 1986 murder of Natalie Blanche Holley.
Bolin told the TV station that evidence used to convict him was both tampered with and planted.
Bolin also has the faithful support of his current wife, Rosalie Bolin.
The defendants’ parents and other supporters have held regular vigils outside the federal courthouse in Camden, where they were convicted after a three-month trial and six days of deliberations. “My punishment’s over. They can’t hurt me no more”.
Reeves said she resents the spotlight the unconventional romance has received.
Reeves said she has no room in her heart for forgiveness.
“It was probably the timing because 15-20 minutes either way and they would have missed each other”, said Reeves.