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TerriLynne Collins

Case from Concho, AZ dated Oct 03, 2017

Victim Details

TerriLynne Collins

Female

White / Caucasian

Concho

AZ

2017-10-03

54

TerriLynne

Collins

Yes

07/11/2026

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In the quiet, rural community of Concho, Arizona, a place she and her husband envisioned as their future retirement haven, 54-year-old TerriLynne Collins' life was tragically cut short in the pre-dawn hours of an October morning in 2017. The harrowing event unfolded while she was on the phone with her husband, Ernest Collins Jr., who was miles away in the Phoenix area. He was forced to listen, helpless, as his wife confronted an intruder in what became a fatal struggle.

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