
Due to Opal Collins’s death being such a famous murder case, the US public developed a special interest in it in the 1960s. Opal did not flee but voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. Even though she had to go through a trial for the murder of 11-year-old Mary, she was at risk of obtaining four life sentences.
Following her conviction for first-degree murder in May 1956, she was given the death penalty. It took place at a time when nearly no women were put to death at that time, but 35 of the 48 American states still permitted the death penalty.
By order of the Indiana governor on December 10, 1956, the death penalty was changed to a life sentence. Opal tried a few different things.
Where is Opal Collins today?
Opal is either in a Hammond jail in her late 80s, or she has already passed away by this time. She is not at all mentioned in any public sources of information.
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