Oscar ray bolin last words
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Focus on Bolin's victim, not his wife, ex says
The lawyer whose wife left him for a convicted killer says he doesn't want that to be the focus of the man's murder retrials.
Victor D. Martinez once won $50 from a group of lawyers who were swapping horror stories of ex-wives, straining to top one another with tales of betrayal and credit card bills run amok.
"There's no way you can beat mine," Martinez told them. "Place your bets."
Money went down. Martinez explained that his wife of 17 years, the mother of his four daughters, ran off with an accused serial killer on death row while the cameras rolled and the world gaped.
There was no argument. He took the pot.
"I think it's hilarious," Martinez, 41, says of the bet. "You can't one-up me on that."
When your life suddenly sounds like a punch line, even a twisted one, it helps to laugh. Most days, Martinez, a prominent Tampa criminal defense lawyer, avoids trying to make sense of it. Most days, he gets by without dwelling on killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. and the woman calling herself his angel.
But as Bolin's latest
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How a Florida Woman and Convicted Serial Killer on Death Row Met and Fell in Love
— -- Rosalie Bolin says Oscar Ray Bolin is the love of her life, despite the fact that he is a convicted killer on death row.
"It's a love that I never experienced before," Rosalie recently told ABC News' "20/20."
Oscar Ray Bolin was convicted of the 1986 murders of three women, 25-year-old Natalie Blanche Holley, 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews and 17-year-old Stephanie Collins. Though Oscar is awaiting execution at Florida State Prison's death row for two of the three murder convictions, Rosalie said she strongly believes Bolin is innocent.
"I never, never, ever thought for a second that he was guilty of those three murders," she said.
Read below to see how their unlikely romance began.
1995: Rosalie and Oscar First Meet
In 1995, Rosalie was married to a prominent Tampa attorney and they had four daughters. But despite her family's wealth and success, something was missing, Rosalie said.
"I wanted to break out. I wan
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Fool for Love?
TAMPA, Fla. — When Rosalie Martinez first laid eyes on serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., he had been brought from Florida’s death row to a small holding cell in the county jail here to await the first of his three retrials.
Convicted of the brutal rapes and murders 10 years ago of three young women, 35-year-old Bolin is considered by authorities to be a dangerous psychopath, a smooth-talking con man and an escape risk who has made direct threats on the lives of police. So when she was escorted into Bolin’s cell, Martinez says, two guards toting shotguns stood nearby.
“I felt like I was going in to see Hannibal Lector,” she says.
Face to face, Martinez nervously introduced herself, then told Bolin: “I am your angel. I want to save your life.”
“Prove it,” he replied.
That initial meeting 18 months ago lasted five hours, Martinez recalls, and almost from the beginning, “I felt an affinity for Mr. Bolin. He was in a 9-by-12-foot cell, with just a bed, desk and toilet. I felt his isolation, his confinement, his loneliness.
“It affected me. Because I fel
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