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

So the morning I rushed to her bedroom, I'm scrummaging through, because the bed was in a state of disarray. My mother always made her bed in the morning and I always made my bed. That's the first thing I do when I get up still. And I'm rummaging through the sheets and I'm looking for blood.

And I come downstairs and my father is seated on the couch and he had a towel wrapped around his waist because he had just taken a shower. And I said, where is my mother? And he doesn't look at me, he's watching television. I said, where is my mother? And he looks up to me very coldly and calmly. He goes, well, mommy took a little vacation, Collier. And right then I knew.

And then he starts to go into this whole diatribe about how, you know, I started asking him what happened. And he said, oh, well, you, you. Your mother came down. I was sleeping on the couch. We got into an argument. She's hollering at me, Jack this, Jack that about Sherry, about money, about this, about the divorce, about me, all this stuff, right?

But Collier didn't believe a word of what his father was saying. After all, he never heard his mother screaming that night. He only heard his sister scream and then two loud thuds. So he asked his dad about those thuds. What was that? He asked. Jack claimed that Noreen got mad and threw her purse at him and the purse hit the wall. Then from there, he said that Noreen left the house.

But as Jack is explaining this to him, Collier knows that that isn't true, and what his dad does next confirms this even further.

It starts into this whole, well, you know, we're not going to call the police. We're not going to call the FBI. And when I said the FBI, I remember thinking, like, what is this, like, escalating? Like, this is weird. And by that time, my grandmother is there, and he's telling the whole story to her. And he goes and gets dressed, and he's then like, you know, we're not going to call the police.

And I'm thinking to myself, as soon as you leave, like, I'm calling someone.

After the police left, Collier didn't know how his dad was going to react. Was he going to be mad at him for telling people that his mom was missing? Was he going to hurt him? But surprisingly, Collier said that his dad was acting pretty passive. He even started saying things like, "'I wonder where mommy is. "'Where do you think she went?'

Jack was hypothesizing on where Noreen could have traveled to, but Collier knew that his mom was not on vacation. And strangely enough, the day after his mom disappeared, his dad's mistress came over. Now, Sherry Campbell had never been by their house before, but on this day, she came over with a pot roast and ate dinner as if she was a part of the family now."

Collier knew deep down that something wasn't right here. If his mom was actually on vacation and would be coming home soon like his father claimed, why would he be inviting Sherry over? So from here, Collier called his mother's friends yet again. This time, they informed him that they had filed a missing persons report, but Collier was adamant that his mother did not run off.

My dad did something to her, he said. So the following day, another police officer came by their house.

A police detective shows up at our door. His name is Lieutenant Detective David Messmore. And he charms his way in with my grandmother and I. And I'm like, yeah, come on in, come on in. And my grandmother is livid. And she's like, I'm going to call my son. He's a doctor. You need to stop harassing us. So she goes for the phone. I grab him and I say, look, I can't talk here.

It's not safe, but I go back to school tomorrow. Give me your card. I'm gonna call you from school. And he's like, okay. I was like, you know, my mother would never leave me. My father's done something to her, but I can't talk here.

So at just 11 years old, Collier comes up with a plan to call David Messmore while he's at school. However, school doesn't start for a couple more days. So he'd have to wait. In the meantime, David Messmore kept showing up to the Boyle household to get answers.

He knew that there was definitely more to this story, but every time he came by, Jack's lawyer was there and they would always shoo him away saying that Jack was not speaking to law enforcement. But luckily for Collier, winter break came to an end. And as soon as he arrived at school that week, he marched right over to the principal's office and placed the call to David Messmore.

Upon getting the call, Messmore immediately made his way over to Collier school. And once there, Collier told him everything.

So the next day I go to back to school. I call Dave. I say, come down here. We meet. I lay out for him everything, everything. having to do with my parents' history, my father's proclivity for violence, everything about Sherry, like everything I can remember about my parents, everything that happened that night, my father, all this stuff, right?

And I said, look, when I go home, while my grandfather's downstairs dealing with my sister or making dinner, I'm going to go upstairs and pull the bookshelves out of the wall where the crawl space is and start looking for my mother's body. And I'm going to look for her purse that I know she would never leave the house without. See if I can find that.

And I start laying out this plan on how I'm going to investigate.

Collier was putting his life at risk. Every moment he could, he was searching his home for evidence. He didn't know exactly what he was looking for. At first, he looked for his mother's body, but then he started looking for any other evidence he could find. He went through Noreen's clothes looking for blood. He pulled out furniture and he searched every inch of their house.

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