Teri Lynn Matthews, 26, was abducted from a Pasco County post office north of Tampa, Florida, on December 5, 1986, and later found stabbed to death. The case remained unsolved until an anonymous tip in 1990 pointed investigators to Oscar Ray Bolin, a former carnival worker who was then serving time in Ohio for a separate kidnapping and rape.

Bolin was convicted of the murders of Matthews and two other women, 17-year-old Stephanie Collins and 25-year-old Natalie Holley; all three victims had been stabbed. During Bolin’s trial, his younger half-brother testified that he saw Bolin beating Matthews and attempting to drown her with a garden hose. Bolin was sentenced to death for Matthews and two other killings; one conviction was later reduced to second-degree murder because of legal errors.

Bolin maintained his innocence and his wife, Rosalie Martinez, who had worked on his defense team, became a vocal opponent of the death penalty. Bolin was executed by lethal injection on January 7, 2016, at Florida State Prison in Starke.