In 2004, seven-times-mar ried Las Vegas stripper- turned-happy-housewife Marjorie Orbin’s husband went missing.
His family and friends were frantic. Marjorie wasn’t.
In fact, when a female detective called Marjorie to ask a few routine questions, a man in the background, Larry Weisberg, started yelling, “Tell her to go f- – – herself!”
Not exactly the type of background greeting cops like to hear.
A few weeks later, a drifter in the desert found a giant Rubbermaid bin and thought he’d struck gold. Instead, he’d struck death, since it contained the headless, limbless torso of the husband, Jay Orbin.
Detectives, using credit card receipts, tracked down a store video that captured Marjorie shopping for that very giant Rubbermaid bin two days after Jay disappeared.
Orbin was arrested, and Weisberg was offered a deal. He testified against Marjorie and was not brought to trial. Marjorie did stand trial and was found guilty.
Meantime, “48 Hours Mystery” offered Orbin something, too: a video camera. On it, she recorded six months of “confessions.” Not confessions that she did it, but confessions about how Weisberg did it.
It’s a helluva thing to see.
On camera, Orbin is in her striped prison garb — a far cry from her glittery, stripper g-strings that she spent most of her career taking off — crying huge, crocodile tears about how much she misses her child and how innocent she is.
She tells correspondent Peter Van Sant, too, that Jay was killed when Weisberg — with whom she was having an affair — walked into the house, not knowing that Jay Orbin had returned from a business trip. The two got into an argument, and Weisberg shot him.
She says she only covered it up because Weisberg threatened her child’s life. Right.
Since both seem to have participated in the murder, the other crime is that only one of them is doing the time.