Here is John Norman Collins' "theory" regarding the death of Alice Kalom.
Alice Elizabeth Kalom, age 21, according to some accounts, was last seen dancing at a party in Ann Arbor on Saturday night, June 7, 1969. Two days later, on Monday, 9 June 1969, her body was found near North Territorial Road and U.S. 23. She was shot in the head and stabbed in the heart. Her clothes had been cut with a knife, ripped off and scattered. Her shoes were missing.
In 2013, evidence from the crime scenes and bodies of some of the "Coed" victims was tested for DNA. Results from two of those murders (Karen Sue Beineman and Alice Elizabeth Kalom) matched with Collins.
Prior to 2013, Collins had maintained his innocence. When confronted with the DNA results, he changed his story both to investigators in a prison interview and in two letters to his cousin, John Chapman of Canada.
Here is what he said (both verbally and in writing) in an effort to explain the DNA:
He met Alice Kalom at an Ann Arbor bar on Friday night (6 June) and made a date for Saturday morning to go for a motorcycle ride.
They met the next day at 11 or 11:30 a.m., in front of the University of Michigan Student Union, chatted and went to Burger King for a bite to eat. Next, they went to "a really PRETTY SPOT that was on the outskirts of campus," which "led to sex."
Kalom invited Collins to a party in Ann Arbor, which Collins claims he wasn't sure whether he would go.
Instead, Collins said, he lent to his room mate Arnold Davis, who was having car trouble, his car keys — and he went to Ann Arbor.
According to Collins' account, when Davis returned home, he told Collins he went to a party and had an accident in his car. He spilled a drink on the seat, reached for something to clean it up and grabbed a cloth wrapped around the .22 caliber pistol that "we had been shooting the day before."
But just then, a "cop car pulled through the driveway and he got nervous."
Davis wrapped the gun in a blanket and tossed them both into a garbage bin.
After Kalom's body was found, Collins writes, Davis "admitted to killing her."...
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MI - MI - JOHN NORMAN COLLINS Co-Ed Murders 1967-69, Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti