Collier Landry

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Murder In America · EP. 183: OHIO - The 11-Year-Old Who Helped Solve His Mom's Murder · 3 Jan 2025 podcast

Trigger warnings from the stories we cover may include violence, rape, murder, and offenses against children.

The new year is supposed to represent a clean slate, new goals and resolutions, better habits, a fresh start. Many people spend some time reflecting on the year behind them and make plans on how they're going to make the next year even better. That was definitely the case for a man named Jack Boyle Jr. in 1989. That had been a difficult year for Jack for months,

He had been looking at his life in 1989 and picturing how different things could be for him in 1990. But the only thing standing in the way of this new glamorous life was Noreen Boyle, Jack's wife. So this is the story of how Noreen Boyle suddenly vanished in the early morning hours of January 1st, 1990.

It's also a story about how their 11-year-old son Collier would help solve his mother's murder. I'm Courtney Browen.

Thank you.

Noreen, or Nori as her friends called her, had a number of great qualities. She was kind, generous, smart, thoughtful. But before you even got to know any of these qualities, you would see that she was effortlessly beautiful. She had this light blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and a great style that drew people's attention.

And on April 23rd, 1962, at just 17 years old, these very qualities would catch the eye of John F. Boyle Jr.,

otherwise known as jack jack would later say that on that beautiful spring day he and his friends had just arrived at a drive-in diner called the hot shop and all of a sudden he sees a car of girls pull up next to them jack and his friends were very interested in this group of pretty girls and they all rolled their windows down and started introducing themselves but jack had his eyes set on the beautiful blonde sitting in the back seat

He would later write a letter to his son Collier explaining this interaction. In it, Jack says, quote, When everyone was exchanging names, all I saw was her. I said to her, Hey, you in the back seat, what's your name? In true mommy fashion, she pulled the glasses down over the bridge of her nose, looked up over them at me and said, Noreen. "'What's yours?'

After that time, "'we were inseparable for the rest of our lives.'" And that was true. After meeting that day at the drive-in diner, Jack and Noreen were inseparable, and they both came from similar backgrounds.

On June 1st, 1968, at 23 years old, Noreen and Jack would get married in what Jack described as the downstairs, quote, poor person's church in Penwyn, Pennsylvania. And from the outside looking in, they had an incredible life ahead of them. Jack was attending medical school on his way to becoming a doctor. And while he worked on that, Noreen supported them by working as a dental hygienist.

Here is Jack and Noreen's son Collier talking about his parents' life during this time.

Both of my parents were very intelligent people. They graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, which is an Ivy League school. They're both from poor families in Philadelphia. One of the things I found out when I was making the film is my mother supported my father. while he was in med school because she graduated with a degree from Penn in dental hydronistry.

So she went off and was working and was making like $25 an hour in the 60s and 70s in Philadelphia. And that's pretty good money.

Noreen was a hard worker with a good head on her shoulders. She was also very supportive of her husband's career. So she was more than willing to support them while he worked on becoming a doctor. But medical school is not easy. It's a long and tiring journey. In fact, for the first nearly 10 years of their marriage, Jack was in school. He ended up graduating from UP in 1973

with a bachelor's degree in biology. And four years after that, he finally graduated from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine with his medical degree. Now from there, Jack would actually serve as a doctor in the Navy Reserve for two years. And then the couple moved to Dahlgren, Virginia, where Jack worked at the Naval Surface Weapons Center.

But this was also a very monumental time in their lives because in 1978, Jack and Noreen gave birth to their son, Collier Landry Boyle. And for Noreen, he was her entire world. Jack would later say that he and Noreen had tried to conceive for many years with no luck. So when Collier was born, they were over the moon. Noreen was a wonderful mother. She loved Collier with her whole being.

And for the first five years of Collier's life, his memories are all with his mom growing up in Virginia. But soon enough, their family was given a great opportunity. Jack was offered a position at a hospital in Mansfield, Ohio. So from there, their family of three made the move. However, the people of Mansfield had no idea that this picture-perfect family would one day change their town forever.

Now with Jack working as a doctor, he was bringing in more money than they ever had. He and Noreen were able to purchase a beautiful home in town. They had a vacation condo on Lake Erie, two nice BMWs, and they could afford all of the luxury clothes and jewelry that money could buy. They were a very privileged family, which was a stark difference from Jack and Noreen's upbringings.

But even so, Collier said that his mother was one of the most generous people he had ever met. Doreen wanted Collier to know that even when you have money and you're able to afford all these things, you have to give to others. Here is a memory he has of his mom growing up.

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