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That same month, on the 26th, 16-year-old Maralynn Skelton was also found dead, beaten and bludgeoned extensively. About three weeks later Dawn Basom, just 13, was found dead after disappearing the previous evening. She had been strangled. Eastern University grad Alison Kalom was next, found in a field with her throat cut, stab wounds, and a gunshot to the head. The public outcry was becoming immense and famed psychic Peter Hurkos was even brought in to give his impressions of the murder spree but proved to be of little help and soon the police had yet another body on their hands, student Karen Sue Bieneman. She came up missing on July 23, 1969, and was discovered a few days later, strangled and beaten to death.

The killer had taken too big of a risk with Bieneman however. While waiting on Bieneman on the day she disappeared, a shop manager had gotten an excellent look at her companion outside seated on his motorcycle. Collins was subsequently taken into police custody but denied any involvement whatsoever in the killing. During the investigation into Collins police were soon told that Collins was considered oversexed and tended to harass women past the point of normal behavior. Then he was positively identified by the store manager and tests on hairs that were found attached to Bieneman's underwear which matched with hairs found at Collins' aunt's home. A bloodstain on the basement floor of the house that matched Bieneman's type was also found.

Collins went to trial and on August 19, 1970, was found guilty and sent to prison for life with hard labor.