Rosalie Bolin

The dark-haired woman with black suit at jury selection 5/11/11
http://floridacapitalresourcecenter.org/regional-directors/rosalie-bolin/

Interesting video:
http://www.news4jax.com/video/24358998/index.html

Wife stands by Bolin for his 8th murder trial

Oscar Ray Bolin is on death row, but Rosalie Bolin says his life is worth saving.

By CANDACE RONDEAUX
Published October 4, 2005

TAMPA - Rosalie Bolin can't put her finger on it. There's no way to explain what made her give it all up for him. All she knows is she saw something in Oscar Ray Bolin Jr. before she married him that no one else did and she needs to save him from being executed.

"Some people have whales. I have Oscar," she said. "I'm sure my mother would rather see me save the whales than a death row inmate but it's Oscar I'm trying to save."

On Monday, she came to court ready to try again as jury selection began in her husband's eighth murder trial. In the decade since Bolin, 43, said "I do" to her over a death row telephone, she's sat through a lot of legal proceedings, but this one is different. This time prosecutors are doubly determined to convict Bolin for the 1986 murder of Natalie Blanche Holley.(more at link)
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/10/04/Hillsborough/Wife_stands_by_Bolin_.shtml

Fool for Love?


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This month Rosalie Martinez moved to Gainesville, where she hopes to study law at the University of Florida and eventually help Bolin with his appeals. Energized by the changes in her life, and slimmed down by 70 pounds over the past year, she seems relentlessly cheerful and optimistic. She has sold the film rights to her story to a Los Angeles production company, Silver Creek Entertainment.
"It fascinates me the way this woman fell in love with this man," says Silver Creek President Larry Garrison. "I see it as 'Dead Man Walking.' "
In interviews from jail, Bolin has called Martinez "a remarkable woman." Since filing for divorce, Victor Martinez has declined comment on his wife's odyssey. But last Monday, he and the children drove to Gainesville and helped hang pictures in her new apartment.

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-09-16/news/ls-44389_1_rosalie-martinez/5


Poster's note....This article has her background info.She and Casey deserve each other.

Rosalie Bolin does not have any websites specifically about her but an internet search produced a wealth of newspaper articles that detail who she is and again that is a bizarre but interesting story in itself.

As more completely discussed below, Rosalie Bolin is the wife of another Florida death row inmate, Oscar Ray Bolin. She is also a “private investigator” who has worked in the legal community for many years. Records show that she is a partner in the privately owned company “Criminal Specialty Investigations, Inc.” located in Tampa, Florida and that through this company she contracts herself out to other lawyers and governmental agencies as a specialist in the area of investigating and developing evidence used to convince juries not to sentence convicted murders to death.

Just who is Rosalie Bolin?

This is where the story really gets interesting. When I conducted my internet search on Rosalie Bolin, what I discovered really blew me away! The following summary of who Rosalie Bolin is can be fully substantiated by court records and newspaper articles. These also expose Rosalie for who she is and her virtual absence of ethical constraint itself explains why she would so maliciously attack Michael Lambrix. Rosalie Bolin is clearly a very disturbed and mentally deranged individual incapable of moral conscience or ethical constraint. How someone such as Rosalie Bolin can make a career in our judicial system is beyond belief.

To begin this part of the story, as previously stated “Rosalie Bolin is actually the wife of death row inmate Oscar Ray Bolin, a convicted serial rapist who tortured and killed “countless” young woman before being convicted of three case and sent to Florida’s death row, where he has now remained for almost twenty years. This is detailed on the “Bolin the Butcher BlogSpot.”

According to court records and newspaper articles Oscar Ray Bolin worked as a truck driver and carnival worker across the United States, during which time he would kidnap, torture, rape, and then kill the young women. In Florida alone, the authorities had sufficient evidence to convict and condemn Oscar Bolin in three Tampa Bay area cases. Many other jurisdictions are still waiting for an opportunity to put Oscar Bolin on trial for rape murders committed elsewhere.

Even before Oscar Ray Bolin came to Florida he was known to be a “sexual predator” and even previously convicted of raping women in another state. It was only by chance that the authorities in the Tampa Bay are in Florida learned of a string of violent rapes and torturous murders of young women that led them to arrest “Bolin the Butcher” and charge him with capital murder.

When Oscar Ray Bolin was arrested in Hillsborough County and charged with numerous counts of sexual battery and murder, at the time Rosalie Bolin, then known as Rosalie Martinez, the wife of a well known criminal defense lawyer by the name of Victor D. Martinez, worked in the local “public defender’s office” as an investigator.

Rosalie Martinez was the quintessential suburban soccer mom; the last person anyone would have thought would fall for a cold blooded serial killer and give up her whole life to be his wife. To those outside looking in, it appeared that Rosalie had it all – a beautiful house in an upscale Tampa community, a 20 year marriage to a prominent attorney, and four daughters who attended the local Catholic high school, where the younger daughters played for the soccer team while their mother sat in the stands cheering them on.

It seemed like a perfectly charmed life, one that most other women would be openly envious of. But beyond this shiny too perfect surface lurked dark secrets that came out only in whispers behind the Martinez’s backs. Rosalie Martinez was not a happy wife. There were allegations that her husband Victor had a secret, twisted sex life if his own, often frequenting adult theatres and paid prostitutes, and even forcing his wife Rosalie to take part in acts of bizarre and twisted sex.

Life at home was not the fairytale it may have seemed and those who were familiar with the truth, were not surprised to hear how she had abruptly left her husband and abandoned her four minor daughters and married a convicted serial killer; Oscar Ray Bolin.

Rosalie Martinez met Oscar Bolin when he was in the Hillsborough County jail awaiting trial on numerous counts of rape and murder of young women. The state was seeking the death penalty and Rosalie was assigned as an investigator working with the public defender’s office. It was her responsibility to conduct a thorough investigation into Oscar ray Bolin’s own background so that evidence could be developed that might convince the jury to spare his life once convicted of capital murder.

During this time Oscar Ray Bolin had a girlfriend, who according to court records he manipulated into helping him attempt as escape by convincing her to kidnap the county sheriff’s own family then holding them hostage until the sheriff released him from custody. The police learned of this escape plan and arrested the young woman who subsequently confessed to the plan and later testified against Oscar Ray Bolin.

Suddenly this psychopathic serial killer needed a new puppet to do his calling and in walked Rosalie Martinez. It wasn’t long after that, that Rosalie Martinez’s visits with Oscar Ray Bolin became more frequent and she became all but obsessed with fighting for his freedom. However, as an employee of the local public defender’s office, she was using taxpayer money to fund her fight for her new “soul mate.” According to articles published in the Tampa Tribune, she was then fired from the public defender’s office for misusing their funds to finance her own campaign to win his freedom. Rosalie also legally divorced her husband, Victor D. Martinez.

Despite her best efforts, Oscar Ray Bolin was convicted then condemned to death, in at least three brutal rape & torture murders. In a court hearing held just before Oscar Ray Bolin was sentenced was about to be transferred to Florida’s death row – a bizarre and unexpected courtroom hearing, Rosalie Martinez legally married Oscar Ray Bolin and became Rosalie Bolin. In an interview with the local Tampa Tribune, Rosalie Bolin proudly announced that she had at last found her “soul mate.”

For almost 20 years now Rosalie Bolin has become the driving force behind the legal challenges to win her condemned husband’s freedom. Through the years Oscar Ray Bolin’s convictions have been repeatedly thrown out only to have him again convicted and sentenced to death. Oscar Ray Bolin remains on death row today.

To facilitate her tireless campaign to win her husband’s freedom, Rosalie Bolin has established her own private investigation company (“Criminal Specialty Investigations, Inc.”) in Tampa, Florida. Working out of that small office, Rosalie Bolin contracts herself and other “associates” in capital murder cases in both Hillsborough and Pinellas counties, as well as to lawyers representing death sentenced prisoners through the state funded office “Commission on Capital Cases,” known more commonly as “registry” counsel.

An examination of administrative records in these agencies shows that in recent years Rosalie Bolin has charged taxpayers almost half of a million dollars, systematically double –billing these agencies for the same hours and expenses as other cases. Much of this taxpayer money has then been used to pay the lawyers retained to represent her husband, as well as various other questionable expenses.

Incredibly, the State of Florida has no oversight to prevent lawyers and investigators from systematically defrauding the legal system. Comparing administrative records from cases Rosalie Bolin was contracted to by the circuit courts in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties during the past five years it has become clear that Rosalie Bolin is systematically defrauding the system; committing grand theft at a massive scale.

Here is how she worked it, by being contracted to represent numerous clients in different jurisdictions Rosalie Bolin regularly bills the same hours and expenses to multiple cases. Since these agencies do not compare each other’s records, they have no way of knowing what she is doing.

These records do show that for at least the last five years Rosalie Bolin has made trips from Tampa to Starke, Florida (where death row is located) almost weekly. During these trips she will “visit” first with her legal clients, subsequently billing each client for the total expenses of the trip mileage, as well as the motel and food bills then the next day she will visit her condemned husband at the prison.

Although systematically committing felony fraud is in itself contemptible, what really makes what she is doing morally reprehensible is that in each of these cases the legal system has limits on how much money can be spent in each capital cases for investigations. This means that by systematically defrauding the system she is taking money away from these clients, effectively depriving them of any meaningful opportunity to have their own cases fully investigated as once she has exhausted the limits if what the legal system allows. Then no further money will be made available for investigations.

http://rosaliebolintheliar.blogspot.com/

I was forwarded this "blog" by an attorney friend of mine -- and he asked that I might respond. I only intended when I made the decision to marry Oscar that it would bring attention to the injustices in our criminal system. I had such a good view of things -- being married to a criminal lawyer and being a court reporter for almost 14 years --- when I decided that I wanted to contribute something more to the system and I started the Social Services Division at the Public Defender's Office. My marriage to Oscar became somewhat of an interest -- not because he was accused of anything but the fact that I was willing to give up material things -- that was the catch. I never gave up my children -- that has been the worse public perception. My children live with me and have been a part of my life since my divorce from their father. That is the only constant thing -- my children. I have been publically ridiculed for something that simply is not true -- and the victims' family perpetuate this by assuming their information is true that I have no contact with the my children -- simply not true! For whatever reason, they feed on this information to make me out to be a monster -- because I married someone they focus their pain on -- so be it. But would they really want the wrong person executed? I would say that they probably would because they think that would be okay -- well, I will refuse to allow the system to execute someone I know to be innocent -- would it matter to the victims' families that I might know the truth -- since they have never interviewed a single witness in any of the cases Oscar has been tried on -- they just believe everything the State Attorney or their investigators have to say -- how simple minded is that?

Every time I have to sit through a court proceeding and I get insulted by these people -- I think to myself -- how sad -- they do not even know me -- and, they so easy judge me -- they even have publically said they wanted me to die because I have married Oscar -- my children were horrified -- my youngest daughter slept with me for a week because she thought the victim's step sister was going to murder me -- how do I explain that?

I only try to do the right thing -- I really do believe that there is good in everyone -- I have represented over 200 people that have been charged with murder -- I have found redeeming qualities in every one of them -- does that make me a bad person because I choose to help these people -- try to explain not excuse their behavior -- try and mitigate life over death -- what is wrong with this picture?

I believe that I have the right to choose who I want to love and care about -- and, if anyone expects an apology from me about loving Oscar -- it won't every come. I do feel sorry for the victims and their families -- but, I will not apologize to them for trying to do my job and doing the best I can in proving Oscar's innocence -- the State of Florida is trying to kill Oscar Bolin and I won't ever stop trying to help him or anyone else that is facing that situation.

I believe that every person deserves a fair process -- and I have dedicated my life to that -- and to the Public Defender Investigator in California -- I did cross the line -- but it was not anything I did to hurt anyone -- I lost a lot or credibility doing that -- but I have overcome the adversity -- I am very good at my job -- I do get respect because I did the unthinkable -- I went against the establishment -- and the politics and followed my heart -- and did a good job for others in spite of who I married -- I will continue the fight until there isn't anything left in me.

Thank you for the opportunity to explain my self -- not an excuse but an explanation.

Rosalie Bolin

http://www.pdiblog.com/2005/10/crossing-line.html

I can tell you that the victim's families are not happy over this situation in anyway. My sister was Teri Lynn Matthews and she was murdered by Bolin.

I have spoken with Rosalie before. I have seen the same evidence that Rosalie has seen. I can tell you by training that I don't take anything at face value. I ask my own questions and come to my own conclusions. I have experience in conducting myself as such. I am an award winning investigative journalist and scientist as well. I am currently working on a PhD in biochemistry. I have two undergraduate degrees, with one in pre-law, the other in chemistry. I worked at the US Attorney's Office in Detroit during my pre-law degree. I think I have the background to be skeptical and inquiring.

Bolin's guilt is not in doubt by anyone in the system except apparently his wife. You can even purchase a copy of Bolin's confession on the internet. There is so much evidence against Bolin in my sister's case including a relative who was an eyewitness to the actual murder. The legal system will churn through and the outcome will be as it should, verdict upheld.

The debate of the death penalty is valid and should continue. It is a difficult subject and all should weigh in their opinion on it as is the duty of citizens of a democracy. I have no conflict with a debate on the subject and welcome it. I don't know that there are any right or wrong answers on this. It is a difficult subject to confront and we as a family would never have dealt with it if it had not been forced to our doorstep. My family understands the death penalty only too well as it was imposed on my sister and the other young women without benefit of trial, jury, appeals or mercy. Bolin is probably the most pro-death penalty person I have ever seen as he as carried it out so effortlessly on many young women. Bolin only has a problem with the death penalty as it applies to himself.

What concerns me is the picture painted of the three mothers and other family members as villians in all of this. The mothers never asked to have their daughters brutally attacked and murdered and left like road kill by the side of the road. No one asks to have vultures circling their daughter's body or to see their child on the news in a bodybag. That is the realtiy of what these women have gone through.

No one that I have heard or spoken to in all of this has wished any harm to Rosalie nor made any threats. I feel on one level sorry for her. Being the skeptic that I am, during the 1996 trial I saw her drive a mercedes to the courthouse. I read her quoted in the paper as saying she was going to make a million dollars off of her story. She had signed a deal with an agent who was working on a movie and book deal for her. She covered about every talk show I could think of. When I was on a show with her, she was the only one of all the guests to arrive wearing a fur coat. It just seemed that other things were motivating her than helping a death row inmate. I can only go by my observations, and how she conducted herself in the media and the quotes she gave. I know that there are a thousand Rosalie's for whatever reason. Every death row inmate has women that write to them, send them gifts, marry them. I have no idea why but I know this is such a common occurance. However, it was just one more thing that added pain to what the families were going through.

I can only share what I have learned throughout this ordeal. Love your family and tell them everyday. Live your passions and be thankful for each day that you are granted. Live your life with purpose. I am going to begin my work soon on the AIDS virus and I hope that my small contriubtion will help others. It is with purpose that I conduct each day of my life. Teri has inspired me to work to make the world a better place. I feel like I have to replace some of the good that was taken when Teri was torn from this world.


Civia (Kellie) Katz

http://www.pdiblog.com/2005/10/crossing-line.html

Rosalie Bolin said...
Civia (Kellie) Katz

I love my family and tell them everyday. I am thankful for every day I have an opportunity to help those that don't get the benefit of having a loving and compassionate family. And, I am very sorry for your loss. I never wanted to hurt you or anyone else. And, I am very sorry if I ever offended anyone. I am tyring to help someone who never had a chance. I see it differently and I apologize if that I hurt you or your mother or Ms. Collins or Ms. Holley.

My children and my mother have been very deeply affected by the comments made about me through the media. They also see this differently. I have never abandoned my children. I am divorced from their father and married someone else. Oscar is not popular. He can offer me nothing, but I care about him and about the criminal process. I do this job because I see that once the criminal process begins, and defendants are not represented by a "million dollar" lawyer, they are lost in the system. No one cares. This is my passion. Everyone deserves a chance. They may have done terrible things, but there is an explanation, not an excuse. I really do believe Oscar is innocent. I believe that one day the truth will come out, and Kellie sometimes things aren't as they appear. That lady in a fur coat that you saw that day does care. Those were material things that I gave up long ago. Yes, I do have nice things but they do not motivate me. And, I have never made any money off Oscar Bolin (not a million dollars or a penny). I have never billed one cent for all the time I have put into these cases for the last ten years. You really don't know what I've been through to get me to the point all those years ago. Only then could you maybe understand. I am sure you might think of me differently. I am so sorry that you have such a low opinion of me. Truly, I am not meanspirited or wish anyone ill will.

Over the last ten years I have learned a lot. And, I have put myself in your position, your mother's position. And, many times I would not have been as gracious as you. But, please remember, I also have children who love me, and every time these trials come up they are very affected by the things that are said about me. I am not on trial. I have not committed any crime by caring about Oscar. I represent people who have been accused of terrible things but I do not judge them. I accept who they are and try and explain the circumstance. Revenge and retribution are terrible. Forgiveness and Compassion are things that I teach my children.

I hope this "blog" helps you better understand my position. And, I wish you and your family a safe and loving holiday.

Respectfully,

Rosalie Bolin

http://www.pdiblog.com/2005/10/crossing-line.html

Rosalie,

Murder is terrible, rape is terrible, kidnapping is terrible. Following the rule of law in prosecuting a criminal case is not revenge, is not retribution. It’s called justice. If you murder, if you rape and if you kidnap you will be judged. Someone must stand in judgment and we call them jurors. My personal opinion as a family member of a victim has no place in the judicial system. I had no voice in the trial, I had no say in the evidence or the verdict. I was a passenger on this train ride like all of the other family members.

You say Bolin is innocent. You’ve had eight trials to prove it. You will have a ninth. Good luck. It’s over Rosalie. The claim and proof of innocence is done. That bus has come and gone.

The question for you is what you will do with your life. If you have found your calling as an investigator for the worst of the worst in our society than more power to you. Everyone deserves representation, everyone deserves their day in court. You got divorced because you said you had issues in your marriage, well, you’ve joined half the country in that one, nothing unusual there. No one accused you of abandoning your children, I think I asked you how you could make this man the step-father to your children and I still can’t fathom that one.

Your personal choices are ones I would not have made, but that is your business till it infringes on the lives of others and that is what you have done. You are no victim in this. Rosalie, the wife of a criminal attorney, a mitigation specialist, a court reporter, a mother was not going to be on 20/20, was not going to have talk shows calling her, was not going to have an agent, book deal and movie deal on the burner. But Rosalie who left a good life and married a serial killer would.

You say you are trying to help someone who never had a chance. I’m trying to find justice for those young girls who never had a chance. Teri never had a chance once the knife was at her throat, she never had a chance once she was stabbed, then stabbed again and again for about 9 more times, she was near death when her ceratoid artery was cut. She was done when the tire buddy hit her head the first time, making the other 14 blows a moot point. She was gone to us all when the buzzards circled over her body, the last testament to Bolin’s work.

So don’t talk to me about trying to help someone who never had a chance, my family are experts on this subject.

You don’t like what people say about you or how they look at you or whatever your complaint is, I have some advice. Don’t talk to the media and you won’t be in the papers. Don’t write on blogs and people won’t respond. Don’t make your life and choices a public spectacle and people won’t respond, care or say one thing about you because they won’t even know who you are. Stay at home, away from the media and you won’t be in the media, it’s that simple. Don’t show up, give an interview, then complain about the publicity. Life is full of choices and quite frankly you have made some whoppers, and now you complain about the way you are perceived. What do you think these choices were going to make you look like, Mother Teresa?

What you do not seem to understand is that none of this is about you. This is about several young women, and I mean several, not just the three women whose murders Bolin has been tried for, who did not have the chance to live their lives. They did not get to go to college, get married, buy a house, have children, and live a normal life. This is about what happened to these innocent young women whose only crime was being young, beautiful, female and in the wrong place at the wrong time. I want to celebrate their lives. I want people to remember their lives, not their murders.

The trials are almost over, the media will soon be done with the story and they will be done with your story as well. There will be other news stories on the burner, new killers, new trials. It’s time to move on Rosalie. Let the families of the victims have some peace. Let your family have some peace. I wish for your family and mine and all other families affected by this to find peace and happiness in their lives, to find meaning and direction. It is time to reach for the good, to leave what is terrible behind. A fresh start is in order.

I know you love your children, that you are passionate about your work, these are good things. If you ask me to understand your marriage and media carnage, I cannot. I hope you will uncover the truth because you are really the only one who can. I hope Bolin will tell you the truth of what he has done so all of the families can know the truth and several more cases can be closed at various police departments. That is where the real story is Rosalie, the one the media would report on. I hope you do that someday for everyone involved in this, including yourself. That continues to be my wish.

I wish your family a good New Year and I wish all peace and joy.

To new beginnings,.

Kellie

http://www.pdiblog.com/2005/10/crossing-line.html

Wow, it just keeps going on and on between Rosalie Bolin and the sister of one of Oscar Ray Bolin's victims. There's plenty more to read at that site.

http://www.pdiblog.com/2005/10/crossing-line.html

Me, me, me

http://www.flogfolioweekly.com/?p=2440#more-2440