Very soon, staff writer Jay Marks will update us on the 1985 shooting death of Alan Rehrig, a former OSU football and basketball player whose estranged wife has long been a suspect. According to The Associated Press, she has been widowed three times, has at least six aliases and is currently accused in North Carolina of stealing Social Security benefits and identity theft.

Also …

Oklahoma City police say they’ve received more than 20 tips on the Orbach and City Girls cases since they were featured on the Cold Case OKC Web site.

You’re making a difference.

It’s been less than two weeks since the debut of the Web site, one of the latest ventures of The Oklahoman and NewsOK.com. Check it out at www.newsok.com/news/coldcase.

Already, police have received “a couple” of tips in the unsolved slayings of Syrl and Christine Orbach, who were beaten and stabbed to death in their northwest Oklahoma City home about 25 years ago. Their case was featured on the site.

“We checked the tips out and thought we might be on to something,” said police Capt. Steve McCool, “but they didn’t work out.”

Even so, that’s a couple tips in a case that’s a quarter of a century old. That’s a couple tips police didn’t have before. And it’s a couple more chances police had to help the Orbachs find justice.

Maybe the next tip will be the one to crack the case.

This Sunday, you’ll have a chance to review another cold case. Hopefully,  you hold the key to solving it.

About 40 years ago, Judith Elwell, 5, and Brenda White, 6, disappeared within a month of each other. The little girls didn’t know each other and lived on opposite ends of the metro, but they are eternally bound by tragedy — and they may have fallen victim to the same predator.

On Sunday, read the stories, check out documents from the actual police case file, view photographs, explore our archived coverage and follow a timeline of events. Watch a video that includes home movie footage of Brenda and commentary by veteran reporter John Greiner, who helped cover the case as it unfolded.

And if you think you can help, contact the police or e-mail us at coldcase@oklahoman.com.

– By Ken Raymond, Staff Writer

– At the time of the slayings, the Orbachs had been married 19 years. Both were widowed from previous marriages.

– The Orbach name was well-known in the community. In 1919, when he was 23, Sy Orbach joined two associates in forming the Boys Apparel Co. They leased the boys’ department at Barth & Mayer Clothing about a year after Sy Orbach had begun working at the store as a window dresser. In 1933, when Rothschild’s clothing store bought out Barth & Meyer, Sy Orbach purchased the boys’ department. Over the next 50 years, the business expanded to include independently owned stores in Oklahoma and Colorado, and he expanded the line to include clothing for men and women. In 1975, Sy Orbach and his son had made the decision to break from Rothschild’s and open stores in their own name. He retired sometime around December 1981.

– Chris Orbach was an active Christian Scientist. According to a family friend, Sy Orbach converted to the Christian Science faith from Judaism. Christian Scientists do not believe in the existence of evil and often view illness as a spiritual ailment better treated with prayer than with traditional medicine.