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TerriLynne Collins, 54, was killed in the pre-dawn hours of an October morning in 2017 at her rural Concho, Arizona property while on the phone with her husband, Ernest Collins Jr., who was in the Phoenix area. The call began after their 18-year-old daughter sent a distress text from a trailer on the property; TerriLynne went to investigate and confronted a masked intruder armed with a knife. During the struggle her husband heard her urge the young intruder that he was just a kid and tell their daughter and her friend to run, followed by a gunshot.

Authorities arrested 14-year-old Joshua Cade Richardson the next day in the Pinetop-Lakeside area; he was described as hungry and thirsty and taken into custody without incident. Investigators say he had broken into the property intending to steal a car. He was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and burglary and pleaded not guilty. A later proposed plea to manslaughter and aggravated assault was strongly opposed by Ernest Collins Jr., who had earlier rejected a second-degree murder plea as insufficient justice for his wife.

Does anyone have information about the night on the property or knew TerriLynne and her family that could help clarify what happened?