Suzanne Marie Collins was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who was tortured, raped, and murdered in 1985.

On the evening of July 11, 1985, Suzanne Marie Collins was abducted while jogging on the base, and was taken to nearby Edmund Orgill Park.

There, the kidnapper severely beat Collins, fracturing her skull, before repeatedly shoving a tree limb up her vagina with enough force to penetrate her abdomen and tear one of her lungs.

The autopsy would state that Collins died from blunt force trauma to the head and internal hemorrhaging from the tree limb.

[1] In spite of his attempt to convince a jury that he had multiple personality disorder, Alley was convicted on March 17, 1987, of murder in the first degree and on May 18, 1987, was sentenced to death.

On April 30, 2019, Alley's daughter petitioned the Criminal Court for Shelby County for the DNA test that was denied prior to his execution.

In addition, one of the other students in Collins' class (Thomas Bruce) was proven to be a killer 20 years later while her boyfriend John Borrup not only matched the description but was unaware that she had been seeing another man.

[8] After the murder, the Collinses dealt with their grief in part by joining a Fairfax County support group for surviving members of homicide victims led by Carroll Ellis and Sandra Witt.

In March 1991, Jack Collins addressed delegates at the Crime Summit in Washington, D.C., convened by then Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.

In the early 1990s, Jack and Trudy Collins served as the Eastern Regional Directors of Citizens for Law and Order, based in Oakland, California.

[12] On May 7, 1991, Jack Collins testified before Congress on, habeas corpus reform and the endless appeals that Alley was requesting.