MURDERED: Colleen Orsborn
In March of 1984, 15-year-old Colleen Orsborn skips school for a day on the beach but never returns home. Her case was connected to the infamous serial killer, Christopher Wilder, and it took 27 years for her family to find out that Colleen had been located just weeks after she went missing and was near them all along.
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Episode Source Material
- Charley Project – Colleen Orsborn
- Dr. G links body found in Orange in 1984 to missing Daytona Beach teen girl
- Unidentified Wikipedia – Colleen Orsborn
- Relatives of slain Daytona teen say death sent shockwave through family
- Spring Break Nightmare – Disappeared on Investigation Discovery
- ‘Beauty Queen Killer’ and race car driver Christopher Bernard Wilder takes a bloody ride through the states, kidnapping, raping and murdering 8 women in short 1984 span
- Tina Marie Risico, the teenager who accompanied serial killer…
- Christoper Bernard Wilder
- Christopher Wilder (The Beauty Queen Killer) – The FBI Files
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