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Sep 2020
1h 8m

Marjorie Orbin

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Marjorie Orbin was a dancer and choreographer in Las Vegas who was used to men paying a lot of attention to her. She was married six times by the time she was 34-years-old. But, the one thing she wanted most was to have a child. Jay Orbin was a successful businessman who fell head over heels for Marjorie and promised that he would pay whatever it took to get her the fertility treatments it took to have a child. But, when Jay's torso turned up in a plastic bin, the police started to question Marjorie's actions.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Marjorie Orbin. Police suspected that Marjorie had killed Jay to collect on quite a bit of insurance money. All of her actions after Jay supposedly disappeared seemed to be those of a woman who knew her husband wasn't coming home. The question for police was, did Marjorie act alone or did she have help from her boyfriend?

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