Oscar ray bolin jr biography
Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. (January 22, 1962 – January 7, 2016) was an American serial killer and convicted rapist who was executed in Florida for murder..
Oscar Ray Bolin
Executed American serial killer
Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. (January 22, 1962 – January 7, 2016)[1] was an American serial killer and convicted rapist who was executed in Florida for murder.
In 1986, Bolin kidnapped and murdered three young women in Tampa, Florida. He was later connected to a fourth murder in Texas in 1987. The murders went unsolved for nearly four years, until the husband of his ex-wife called a tip line and implicated him.
Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. brutally murdered three women in the Tampa Bay area in 1986.
He maintained his innocence to the end.[2]
Early life
Bolin was born on January 22, 1962, in Portland, Indiana.[3] His family consisted of laborers and carnival workers who were spread across multiple states including: Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
His father used to beat him when he was a child and his mother once walked him to a school bus stop on a leash.[4]
Bolin frequently got into trouble with the law during his youth. In 1977, he committed theft in Ohio at the age of 15 and