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

I'm not happy you lied to me, but I know why you did because your father told you to and he shouldn't have done that, et cetera. And then she goes in and she starts screaming on the phone, assuming she's yelling at my father, but that was it. They had a deal and the deal was don't involve our kid.

My father wasn't around a lot. As I said, he was always like quote on call or he was working or whatever, or he would be sleeping on the couch and watching CNN or whatever, like three in the morning. That was my perspective on how my father was like interacting with my mother. So. I don't think they slept in the same bedroom for many years. But he was at the house less and less.

But every time he would come in, there would be an engagement or we would like go upstairs so we could avoid him. So he was coming in to get his stuff and we would try to have as little interaction with him as possible.

He started telling me, you know, around this time, like he's going to have a, you know, my mother's divorcing him. He's going to make sure that I have the worst life possible, that my mother and I are going to be broke. I'm not going to go to college. I'm going to go to public school because I went to private school at that time. He's going to turn a whole world upside down.

She's going to be working at McDonald's by the time he's done with her. We're going to be on the street, you know, all this stuff. He's not going to support my college education. And what a wonderful life he's going to create for Sherry and her kids.

And if Jack was making these threats to his 11 year old son, I can only imagine the things he was saying to Noreen. One thing we know for sure is that she feared for her life. In fact, Noreen started telling friends that if something ever happened to her, that Jack was responsible. Sadly, she even told this to her 11 year old son.

I remember my mother was really downtrodden. This is right around Thanksgiving of that of 1989. And she said to me, she picked me up from school. We were going to go eat at this place called Bob Evans. For those of you who don't know, it's like a Midwestern staple. And she said to me in the car, she goes, Collier, I want you to know something.

Your, your father has mafia connections and I would never leave you. And if something happens to me, your father had me killed.

I had this fighting game that he had gotten me and he saw it and he goes, this is a violent game. I would never have got this for you if this was violent. I'm thinking to myself, you would call me a little bitch and a little pussy for covering my eyes when there's a violent scene in a movie or a sex scene. You would pull my eyes down and make me watch it.

And now you're upset because I'm playing a video game?

Ironically, Jack had been planning something far more violent, and that plan would come to fruition in just a few short days. On New Year's Eve of 1989, people all around America looked at their clocks and began the countdown into the new year. Usually, when the clock strikes midnight, everyone cheers. They sip their champagne, kiss their loved ones, and they celebrate.

But that wasn't the case in the Boyle household. That night, Collier kissed his mom goodnight and went to bed. but he had no idea that that would be the very last time he would ever see his mom alive. A few hours later, Collier suddenly woke up at around 3 a.m. to the sound of two loud thuds. Next, he heard his little sister scream.

Collier didn't know what to think of the sounds, but they frightened him. And for just a moment, Think about what it was like when you were nine, 10, 11 years old, waking up in the dead of night. The shadows made by trees on your window pane are a monster reaching out for you. The click and grind of a radiator was a creature rising from the depths to swallow you whole.

In those moments, most kids only want one thing, the only thing that can soothe their fears, their parents. But for Collier, one of his parents was the monster lurking in the darkness, and he knew it almost as soon as he opened his eyes. After hearing those thuds, followed by a scream, Collier's first fear was that something had happened to his mother.

But then he started hearing footsteps walking towards his bedroom. And in that moment, his second fear was that something was about to happen to him.

And I'm counting his footsteps that are going down the hallway. And I'm sleeping and I'm looking at my Batman clock that's on the wall. That's how I know what time it is. And I can see out of my peripheral vision because I always slept with my door open. And the feet stop in the doorway. And I recognize my father's shoes.

And I'm just, and all I'm saying to myself is, like there's this voice from the universe screaming, don't look up. And I firmly believe that if I had looked up, I wouldn't be sitting here.

As he laid in bed that night, Collier kept his eyes closed. His heart was thudding and his mind was racing. but he didn't dare move. And after what surely felt like an eternity, he finally heard the sounds of his dad walking away. But Collier believes that his father went to his room that night to see if he had heard anything.

And if he had, if Collier would have been awake when his dad walked by his bedroom, he believes with his whole heart that his father would have killed him. The fear that ran through Collier that night was unfathomable, but eventually, he fell into an uneasy sleep. The next morning was the very first day of 1990, the day that Collier's life was forever changed.

But in the light of day, he made a horrible discovery.

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