‘Till Death Do Us Part’ Certainly Applies Here
The wedding vows were exchanged over the telephone. The bride was in her kitchen. The groom was on death row.
The romance between serial killer Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. and Rosalie Martinez had not exactly been traditional. The two fell in love as she worked on his defense team trying to save him from the electric chair.
The secret nuptials took place four days before Bolin was sentenced to death--for the second time following a retrial in the murder of a bank teller.
The bride, who left an 18-year marriage to a successful attorney to be with Bolin, wanted to keep word of the union quiet. Neither her parents, nor her four children knew of the ceremony.
Bolin, meanwhile, was about 35 miles away in Starke, where he has spent much of the past five years on death row at Florida State Prison.
Bolin faces two more retrials on murder cases in the Tampa area. The state Supreme Court overturned all three convictions on grounds of improper testimony.
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