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In 1989, Haffner divorced Bolin and later remarried. She told her new husband that Bolin had told her about committing multiple murders. Haffner's new husband then called a tip line and implicated Bolin. More witnesses then came out to testify against him, including his younger half-brother and a
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consisted of a rib-eye steak, a baked potato, salad, garlic bread, lemon meringue pie, and Coca-Cola. He declined to make a final statement. The next execution in
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Bolin frequently got into trouble with the law during his youth. In 1977, he committed theft in Ohio at the age of 15 and was arrested. He later moved to
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