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Not everyone hated Benetton’s death row ads.
Dagmar Polzin, a 32-year-old waitress from Hamburg, Germany, was so moved by one that appeared on a bus stop in her hometown that she quit her job and moved to North Carolina to be near its subject, Bobby Lee Harris, according to the Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun. Now the two are petitioning to be married.
“I knew he wasn’t a killer. I could see it in the eyes,” Polzin says of Harris, 34, who was convicted of first-degree murder in 1992 for killing a fisherman (a crime to which he has admitted).
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