Jay Michael Orbin, a 45-year-old jewelry and art dealer, was last known to be in Phoenix, Arizona on his birthday, September 8, 2004, after returning from a business trip to Florida. Phone and credit card records show he made it home, but no one heard from him again until his wife, Marjorie Orbin, reported him missing on September 22 after friends and family pressed her to contact police.

On October 23 a man searching for recyclables in the desert outskirts of Phoenix found a large plastic container holding a dismembered torso. The remains were later identified as Jay Orbin. An autopsy determined he had been shot, his body frozen after death, and dismembered with an electric saw; the remaining body parts were never recovered.

Suspicion centered on Marjorie Orbin as investigators uncovered affairs and financial motives. Surveillance showed her buying large plastic containers like the one used to conceal the torso. She was arrested, tried, and convicted; the prosecution alleged she shot Jay in the garage, froze and dismembered him. She maintained Weisberg, one of her lovers, had committed the killing and coerced her, but he testified after receiving immunity. Marjorie was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole.

If anyone knew Jay’s movements in early September 2004 or saw anything near the Orbin home, please share what was known.