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Collier Landry

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

And all I can remember is my mom, when my grandmother, her mother died, and she was very close to her father. And she said, you've got to be strong for pop-up. And I just remember walking in there, I was 11 years old. And I was like, you got to be strong for everybody. You got to be strong for all these people, Collier, because you're in the middle of like, this is, this is like, this is it.

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

And it's, you know, it's like, you know, your whole world is just never going to be the same. You just lost the most important person in your life, which you kind of knew was already the case. You now have no father. He's been arrested, you know, and, and all this stuff is happening. Like what's going to happen? Like. And this is like when the real shit starts to hit the fan.

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

And it's, you know, it's like, you know, your whole world is just never going to be the same. You just lost the most important person in your life, which you kind of knew was already the case. You now have no father. He's been arrested, you know, and, and all this stuff is happening. Like what's going to happen? Like. And this is like when the real shit starts to hit the fan.

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

And it's, you know, it's like, you know, your whole world is just never going to be the same. You just lost the most important person in your life, which you kind of knew was already the case. You now have no father. He's been arrested, you know, and, and all this stuff is happening. Like what's going to happen? Like. And this is like when the real shit starts to hit the fan.

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

It's like, you know, I go back that night to one of the principals of my school's house and Dave Messmore comes and visits me and he just explains to me like what happened and how they found her. And he said, remember the house? And I said, yeah. And he goes, that's where we found her. They found her buried underneath the basement floor.

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

It's like, you know, I go back that night to one of the principals of my school's house and Dave Messmore comes and visits me and he just explains to me like what happened and how they found her. And he said, remember the house? And I said, yeah. And he goes, that's where we found her. They found her buried underneath the basement floor.

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

It's like, you know, I go back that night to one of the principals of my school's house and Dave Messmore comes and visits me and he just explains to me like what happened and how they found her. And he said, remember the house? And I said, yeah. And he goes, that's where we found her. They found her buried underneath the basement floor.

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

And he asked me, he goes, have you ever seen any indoor-outdoor carpeting on your house? And I said, yeah, we had it sitting on our back porch for like three months. And he goes, yeah. And he said, have you ever seen a blue tarp? And I said, yeah, I was with my father when I bought it at Kmart. He goes, yeah, that's what my father wrapped her body in.

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

And he asked me, he goes, have you ever seen any indoor-outdoor carpeting on your house? And I said, yeah, we had it sitting on our back porch for like three months. And he goes, yeah. And he said, have you ever seen a blue tarp? And I said, yeah, I was with my father when I bought it at Kmart. He goes, yeah, that's what my father wrapped her body in.

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

And he asked me, he goes, have you ever seen any indoor-outdoor carpeting on your house? And I said, yeah, we had it sitting on our back porch for like three months. And he goes, yeah. And he said, have you ever seen a blue tarp? And I said, yeah, I was with my father when I bought it at Kmart. He goes, yeah, that's what my father wrapped her body in.

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

To everyone's surprise, Jack Boyle's crimes began long before the murder of his wife Noreen. In fact, years earlier, another police department in Baltimore had been investigating him. As it turns out, on January 13th, 1987, Three years before Noreen was murdered, Jack's niece filed a complaint stating that he had sexually molested her and her younger sister.

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

To everyone's surprise, Jack Boyle's crimes began long before the murder of his wife Noreen. In fact, years earlier, another police department in Baltimore had been investigating him. As it turns out, on January 13th, 1987, Three years before Noreen was murdered, Jack's niece filed a complaint stating that he had sexually molested her and her younger sister.

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

To everyone's surprise, Jack Boyle's crimes began long before the murder of his wife Noreen. In fact, years earlier, another police department in Baltimore had been investigating him. As it turns out, on January 13th, 1987, Three years before Noreen was murdered, Jack's niece filed a complaint stating that he had sexually molested her and her younger sister.

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

The abuse spanned over a period of two years in the late 1970s, beginning when one of the girls was 11 and the other was just nine years old. During that time, Jack would get the girls alone and pretend he was giving them physicals, as doctors do. But in reality, he was using this opportunity to inappropriately touch them. Now, it would take about 10 years for the girls to come forward,

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

The abuse spanned over a period of two years in the late 1970s, beginning when one of the girls was 11 and the other was just nine years old. During that time, Jack would get the girls alone and pretend he was giving them physicals, as doctors do. But in reality, he was using this opportunity to inappropriately touch them. Now, it would take about 10 years for the girls to come forward,

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

The abuse spanned over a period of two years in the late 1970s, beginning when one of the girls was 11 and the other was just nine years old. During that time, Jack would get the girls alone and pretend he was giving them physicals, as doctors do. But in reality, he was using this opportunity to inappropriately touch them. Now, it would take about 10 years for the girls to come forward,

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

The allegations didn't come to light until 1986 when one of Jack's nieces attempted suicide. Afterwards, she would go through intensive therapy and it was there where she felt comfortable enough to tell her therapist about the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her uncle. Now from there, detectives in Baltimore investigated the claims for seven whole months.

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

The allegations didn't come to light until 1986 when one of Jack's nieces attempted suicide. Afterwards, she would go through intensive therapy and it was there where she felt comfortable enough to tell her therapist about the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her uncle. Now from there, detectives in Baltimore investigated the claims for seven whole months.

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

The allegations didn't come to light until 1986 when one of Jack's nieces attempted suicide. Afterwards, she would go through intensive therapy and it was there where she felt comfortable enough to tell her therapist about the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her uncle. Now from there, detectives in Baltimore investigated the claims for seven whole months.

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

But sadly, in the end, the girls didn't wanna testify against him. It was too traumatic for them, having to stand up against their uncle, the man who stole their innocence. So nothing ever came from this. Now Collier would later tell us that he had no idea any of this had happened, but he did notice a strange disconnect within his family at the time.