She was fifteen. Tiny — barely 160 centimetres tall. Wearing a pink bikini on an ordinary Thursday morning, walking alone near her home.

Christopher Wilder was six foot, well into a killing rampage across America, and should have been in police custody that morning. He wasn't. A private detective had handed police in Miami enough evidence. They called it "no evidence of foul play."

Two days later, Colleen Orsborne was gone.

For 27 years she lay in a morgue labelled Jane Doe — a number, a file, a girl nobody could name. Her mother never stopped searching. Never stopped hoping. She died before DNA finally confirmed what the family always knew.

She never got to bury her daughter.

Colleen's big sister Margaret has carried the guilt for 40 years. She was the big sister. She was supposed to protect her. That's what big sisters do.

"I'm sorry," she whispered at the memorial, 27 years too late. "I think we all felt we failed her."

She didn't fail Colleen. The system did.

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Hosts

Andy Byrne 

Mark Llewellyn

Audio Production

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Artwork

Susan Armstrong 

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Resources

The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne - courtesy of Penguin Random House

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