A murder suspect is on trial for the fourth time for the same killing.
Separate juries have found Oscar Ray Bolin guilty three times and a judge has tossed it out three times.
The family for the murder victim was not in court today after all these years.
Bay News 9 is told the mom, who is 80 years old, has basically given up on the case.
Bolin, 50, is on trial for the 1986 murder of Natalie Holley.
It's the fourth time he's sat in court for that deadly stabbing. The past convictions were overturned on appeal.
Tuesday, the court heard from officers who were there when it happened.
And although the victim's mom wasn't in court, Terri Lynn Matthews sat there for her.
The 75-year-old woman has been to every single trial. Her daughter was also murdered by Bolin but that conviction was upheld.
Matthews say being in court, looking at Bolin, is really hard.
“I didn't realize how painful it would be until I got here and started going through
it again,” she said. “It's very difficult.”
Bolin is already on death row for the murders of two other women.