At a second hearing in September, Collins refused to enter a plea; Washtenaw County Circuit Court Judge John Conlin ordered a plea of not guilty entered on his behalf. By '69, he was a senior at Eastern Michigan University, studying to be a teacher. They combed the 100 square miles of side roads between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti for the 18-year-old who was last seen getting on a motorcycle with a stranger in Ypsilanti. You can't change the past, BUTT, you can HOPE for a better future.". Sounds like a little youthful imagination!! Collins went to trial and on August 19, 1970, was found guilty and sent to prison for life with hard labor.John Norma will mark his 40 th year of incarceration in 2010. PDF John Norman Collins - Murderpedia Hurkos accurately predicted that the murderer was a strongly built white male under 25 years of age, who had been born outside the United States, and who rode a motorcycle. Through interviewing acquaintances of Phillips, investigators established that she had been introduced to the individual she had referred to as "John from Michigan" through a 17-year-old friend named Nancy Ann Albrecht, who informed police she had herself become acquainted with Collins on June 29, and that she had mentioned her friend (Phillips) to Collins on this date. At that point, Karen was only missing. Living with Mom, and then moved into the basement of his uncle's house. She said they stopped for a moment and he asked her "What would you say if I told you I was the coed killer?" Then, he waited. Both women had agreed this composite drawing was accurate, and only disagreed as to the structure of the suspect's chin. He comes out and said 'take him back to jail.' Another individual would be convicted of the murder of Jane Mixer in 2005. The rookie cop soon found out his football fraternity's rival: it was John Norman Collins. [16] In addition, her throat had been slashed, and her miniskirt then tied around her neck. Kalominvited Collins to a party in Ann Arbor, which Collins claims he wasn't sure whether he would go. A woman police officer mentioned her name to someone and that someone "dropped the dime" on Maralynn. The first letter, dated Oct. 22, Collins says he has much to reveal and doesn't "know where to begin." Collins also wrote two letters in 2013 that gave specific accounts of how two of the victims Kalom and Beineman died, and his involvement with them. [144] The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and would deliberate for over 27 hours over a period of three days, with an additional five-and-a-half hours devoted to their re-reading portions of testimony, before announcing they had reached their verdict.