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

And Jack made it very clear that if she ever left him, he would take everything from her. So Noreen made the difficult decision to stay in her marriage for the sake of her family and to distract herself from her husband's abuse. Noreen spent as much time with her son as she could. She also got involved in her community. She was a member of the Mansfield Garden Club.

She helped others with knitting and arts and crafts. And she was very involved with Collier's school activities. But something was still missing from her life. Noreen wanted another child, specifically a daughter. But by 1989, she was in her mid 40s. She and Jack had already had trouble conceiving in the past, so she knew having a child of her own wouldn't be likely.

So that's when she decided to start the adoption process.

I don't really know exactly the whole story, but my mother wanted another child. She wasn't, uh, you know, at that time, probably able to concede can conceive. She was in her early forties. My mother wanted to, to be able to have a little girl. I think probably because she was like, well, I'm not having a kid with this man again.

And that's what she wanted as part of her, you know, part of like her needs that needed to be met. So they adopted her and, um, and then all this just started unfolding.

It was Memorial Day weekend of 1989. Collier was 11 years old and his father decided to take him out that weekend for a party. Now, Jack hardly ever spent time with his son, so this was a rare occasion. However, he didn't go to this party so that Collier could have a good time. He went there because that's where his girlfriend was spending Memorial Day weekend. and Jack wanted to see her.

Jack Boyle was about to break the one rule that his wife, Noreen, had given him, and that rule was don't involve the kids in your affairs.

I met his girlfriend in Memorial Day weekend of 1989. I was 11 years old. He took me to this party and it was like around people I had never been around. They were kind of like, you know, lived out in the sticks. There was like racing quads, playing volleyball, having a pig roast. And these are not the typical people my parents associated with.

I was riding around the quad and it was fun and all that. And, and my father, I see, he introduced me to this woman named Sherry Campbell and she had children and I was playing with her kids. I see my father walking around and he puts his arm around her. And I was like, oh, we're walking around this lake. I'm skipping stones with the kids. And I was like, oh, that's kind of weird.

And I asked him later, you know, we were driving home. I said, you know, what, what's, who was that? What he goes, oh, that's a patient of daddy's and she's terminally ill. So daddy was comforting her. And I was like, oh, okay.

And again, being 11 years old, Collier believed him. But a few weeks later, when Father's Day rolled around, Collier would see Sherry Campbell again. And this time, he knew deep down that something wasn't right.

father's day you know a few weeks later my father asked me to come to his office with him and then we go and we stop by the suntan parlor and sherry comes out with two remote control cars and and she gives me the room and i'm like oh i remember this woman and no poor thing but oh she gave me radio i'm only 11. i'm like stoked right i got to read it since father's day right

And I'm playing with a radio control car, but I look at her and I see on her ring finger, she has a ring. And it was a very unique ring. I'd never seen it before, only on my mother's finger. And I looked at her and I said, that's interesting. My mommy has a ring like that. And she's kind of giggled and looked at my father and it was just like sliding.

It was like a diamond that slid back and forth in a shaft. It was a diamond slide ring. And, you know, I played with the radio control car and then I packed it up and my father and I were leaving and I get in his truck and I look through the windshield and he's making out with her. And I'd never seen that before. And I'm like, oh man.

And so my father gets in the car and we're driving home and he goes, okay, bumper, which is my nickname as a kid. He says, I need you to do me a favor. I need you to tell mommy that I took you to my office and I gave you the radio control cars as a present for getting good grades this year. Don't tell her about Sherry. Don't tell her. And I was just like, okay.

And of course I'm terrified of my father. So I'm not going to say anything. You know, but I'm also feeling like, okay, because I grew up and I always, I think everyone who grows up with their childhood, like this is a normal childhood, right? Like this is a normal childhood. And so I just think, okay, this is what it is. And then to see that.

my father kissing another woman, I'm thinking back to myself, like I had friends whose fathers cheated on their mothers. And so I started thinking, okay, this is, um, this is okay. Hold on. Like I'm now experiencing what my friends have told me about when their parents got a divorce.

11-year-old Collier had just witnessed something that he knew was very wrong. But his father, the man that terrified him, told him not to say anything about it. So Collier was torn. Later that night, he and his parents would go out to a Father's Day dinner as if nothing happened. But the thought of his dad kissing another woman continued to haunt him.

And eventually, Collier knew he had to tell his mother the truth. One day, while he was playing with his remote control car in the driveway, he said he was overcome with guilt. So he went inside and called his mom over to finally tell her what he saw.

I come in and I asked my mother to sit down. I said, mommy, I have to tell you something. And I started telling her about Sherry and how I saw him kiss her and about the ring and how I met Sherry a couple of months earlier at the memorial day and this whole thing. And I said, I think he's having an affair. I don't know. I saw him kiss her and she said, well, thank you for being honest with me.

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