- Shot and killed her husband Felix Pappalardi on April 17, 1983. A jury found her guilty of criminally negligent homicide, not murder; the judge admonished them for their gullibility. Sentenced to four years in prison, Collins served only two.
- According to her obituary in the New York Daily News of February 22, 2014, Collins died in a Mexican village where she lived as a recluse with several cats. She had been undergoing experimental cancer treatments in Ajijic, an expatriate resort town south of Guadalajara. She left instructions to be cremated and for her cats to be euthanized and their ashes mixed with hers.
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