Before she met Oscar Ray Bolin, Rosalie Martinez was married to a prominent Tampa lawyer, Victor D. Martinez, the Tampa Bay Times reported. When she began working on Bolin's case, she became convinced he was innocent. In a 1996 "20/20" interview, Rosalie said part of the reason for their marriage was to help generate media attention (per ABC News). The other reason, she said, was her unhappy former marriage. "I wanted to break out," she said. "I wanted to be loved like I've never been loved before, passion, someone to put me on an emotional pedestal, not with material things."

Rosalie and Victor had four daughters together when she fell in love with the serial killer, leaving her husband dumbfounded. "It would have been a lot more understandable to me if she'd said, "I'm sorry, I've fallen in love with the orthopedic surgeon next door, and we're flying off to Hawaii,'" he said.

In 1996, Rosalie and Bolin married from her home via speakerphone and remained together until his execution in 2016.

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