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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

aircraft with a knife, his trusty Bowie knife, government issued, you know, naval issued, and swims two miles to shore, lives on slugs and bark for two days and, you know, the foliage there, and then is rescued. as a war hero. I mean, like some of these stories were so crazy.

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

And I remember, you know, I remember hearing it as a kid, but I can remember, you know, reconnecting with people or people coming out of the woodwork when I made the film or just in my life in general saying, yeah, I remember this. And I just was like, what? Like this guy is completely full of shit. Like, like I, like this is the most fantastical story I've ever heard.

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

And I remember, you know, I remember hearing it as a kid, but I can remember, you know, reconnecting with people or people coming out of the woodwork when I made the film or just in my life in general saying, yeah, I remember this. And I just was like, what? Like this guy is completely full of shit. Like, like I, like this is the most fantastical story I've ever heard.

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

And I remember, you know, I remember hearing it as a kid, but I can remember, you know, reconnecting with people or people coming out of the woodwork when I made the film or just in my life in general saying, yeah, I remember this. And I just was like, what? Like this guy is completely full of shit. Like, like I, like this is the most fantastical story I've ever heard.

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

When we moved to Mansell, there were a lot of backstories that were created about their lives that didn't exist. And I think they were maybe really almost embarrassed of their humble beginnings or their poor backgrounds, which they shouldn't have been at all. They should have worn it as a badge of honor, in my opinion. But, you know, it was a different time then.

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

When we moved to Mansell, there were a lot of backstories that were created about their lives that didn't exist. And I think they were maybe really almost embarrassed of their humble beginnings or their poor backgrounds, which they shouldn't have been at all. They should have worn it as a badge of honor, in my opinion. But, you know, it was a different time then.

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

When we moved to Mansell, there were a lot of backstories that were created about their lives that didn't exist. And I think they were maybe really almost embarrassed of their humble beginnings or their poor backgrounds, which they shouldn't have been at all. They should have worn it as a badge of honor, in my opinion. But, you know, it was a different time then.

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

But as a little boy, Collier would hear these stories of his dad being this war hero, a naval fighter pilot, And he believed him. After all, parents aren't supposed to lie. Collier also saw what a great doctor his father was and how much his patients loved him. But on the other hand, Collier also saw a very different side of his father, a side that no one else in Mansfield was able to see.

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

But as a little boy, Collier would hear these stories of his dad being this war hero, a naval fighter pilot, And he believed him. After all, parents aren't supposed to lie. Collier also saw what a great doctor his father was and how much his patients loved him. But on the other hand, Collier also saw a very different side of his father, a side that no one else in Mansfield was able to see.

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

But as a little boy, Collier would hear these stories of his dad being this war hero, a naval fighter pilot, And he believed him. After all, parents aren't supposed to lie. Collier also saw what a great doctor his father was and how much his patients loved him. But on the other hand, Collier also saw a very different side of his father, a side that no one else in Mansfield was able to see.

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

What I saw as a child was, look, my father was abusive. He was apoplectic. He was a rageaholic. He abused physically, mentally, verbally, my mother and I for years and years and years and years.

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

What I saw as a child was, look, my father was abusive. He was apoplectic. He was a rageaholic. He abused physically, mentally, verbally, my mother and I for years and years and years and years.

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

What I saw as a child was, look, my father was abusive. He was apoplectic. He was a rageaholic. He abused physically, mentally, verbally, my mother and I for years and years and years and years.

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

Now Collier would go on to create a documentary about his family's story called A Murder in Mansfield. And it is truly one of the best true crime documentaries I have ever seen. So we will be tagging it below in the show notes. Everyone, please go and watch it. I promise it is so, so good. But in it, Collier really lays out just how horrible his father's abuse was.

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

Now Collier would go on to create a documentary about his family's story called A Murder in Mansfield. And it is truly one of the best true crime documentaries I have ever seen. So we will be tagging it below in the show notes. Everyone, please go and watch it. I promise it is so, so good. But in it, Collier really lays out just how horrible his father's abuse was.

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

Now Collier would go on to create a documentary about his family's story called A Murder in Mansfield. And it is truly one of the best true crime documentaries I have ever seen. So we will be tagging it below in the show notes. Everyone, please go and watch it. I promise it is so, so good. But in it, Collier really lays out just how horrible his father's abuse was.

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

Jack was known to easily fly off the handle over minor inconveniences and would often bear the brunt of his wrath. At times, Jack would call his son a pussy, fat, stupid, a sissy, or even the F slur. Collier has one memory of his dad throwing their family dog, Gowdy, across the room. Bouts of violence were a common occurrence in their household.

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

Jack was known to easily fly off the handle over minor inconveniences and would often bear the brunt of his wrath. At times, Jack would call his son a pussy, fat, stupid, a sissy, or even the F slur. Collier has one memory of his dad throwing their family dog, Gowdy, across the room. Bouts of violence were a common occurrence in their household.

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

Jack was known to easily fly off the handle over minor inconveniences and would often bear the brunt of his wrath. At times, Jack would call his son a pussy, fat, stupid, a sissy, or even the F slur. Collier has one memory of his dad throwing their family dog, Gowdy, across the room. Bouts of violence were a common occurrence in their household.

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

During another instance, Jack became enraged because their home computer speakers had stopped working and he took that anger out on Collier. Here is Collier at just 11 years old talking about this experience.