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Natalie Blanche Holley, 25, was murdered on January 25, 1986, after finishing her night shift as manager at a Church’s Fried Chicken in Tampa, Florida. She left work about 1:30 a.m. and was found hours later in an overgrown orange grove by a morning jogger. She had been stabbed ten times in the chest and throat.

The investigation later linked Oscar Ray Bolin Jr., a former carnival worker, to Holley’s death and to the killings of two other women in the Tampa Bay area, all stabbed to death. Bolin’s name surfaced after an anonymous tip in 1990; he was already incarcerated in Ohio for a 1987 kidnapping and rape. The death penalty verdict in Holley’s case was vacated for legal errors, and a subsequent jury convicted him of second-degree murder in Holley’s killing.

Family members and the community waited decades for final outcomes in the related cases. Does anyone have memories of the Church’s Fried Chicken location or the orange grove area from that time that could add context to the investigation?