Could school photographs taken in Quincy in the 1980s lead Florida police to a serial killer?

QUINCY, Mass. — The photographs, four of them, were found in the case file of a 1984 Florida unsolved murder victim, Colleen Orsborn.

The 15-year-old disappeared from her home in Daytona Beach, Florida. Her body was found a month later in a shallow grave near a Central Florida lake.

The longtime suspect in Colleen’s case is Christopher Wilder, a serial killer who was shot dead during a confrontation with New Hampshire State Police in Colebrook, New Hampshire shortly after Colleen disappeared.

No one knows why the school photos were stored in Colleen’s file.

All of the photos are taken by Miller’s Photography Studio in Quincy.

And on the back, they are inscribed to a person named Jen or Jennie.

Last week, Orange County, Florida Sheriffs reached out to Quincy Police to try to identify the girls in the school photos.

Quincy Police Sgt. Karyn Barkas told me detectives immediately got to work.

“Our detectives, right away, started looking at old school yearbooks from 1981,82, 83,” Sgt. Barkas told me. “We did try to locate the girls using online yearsbooks, but we were coming up empty.”

Not only were police trying to identify the women, they were also trying to identify Jen/Jennie.

Florida authorities were hoping she might be the connection to Christopher Wilder.

Wednesday morning, Quincy Police published the photos on its Facebook Page, and within hours, Orange County Sheriffs had ID’s on three of them.

One of the women saw her own school photo, and reached out.

“The women are very eager to help, they are talking to each other,” Orange County, FL Sheriff Corporal David Nutting told me. “They are wracking their brains trying to figure out who Jen or Jennifer could be.”

Cpl Nutting is hoping Jen/Jennie holds the key to solving Colleen’s murder.

“I want to find out who Jennifer is and is she ok?” Nutting told me. “Did she have any interactions with this guy (Wilder)? Were these pictures dropped at the scene when the suspect was burying her body? What happened?”

On Thursday morning, Quincy Police identified all four women in the photos.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.

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