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

Collier was doing everything in his power to help with the investigation, but Noreen wasn't there. She had been missing for days now and hadn't returned home like Jack said she would. And with every passing day, the likelihood of her coming home alive was growing thin. But no one else in Mansfield seemed to believe this. only Collier and Dave Messmore.

And sadly, Messmore's department wasn't very interested in looking into the case. In fact, the captain at the time allegedly wanted to close the case as quickly as they opened it, stating that there was no evidence of foul play. But Messmore remained steadfast, fighting to keep the case open. And together, he and Collier worked to get as much information as possible.

So every day I'm going to school talking to Dave Massmore and my father's coming home. And again, every night is this weird, like, you know, I wonder where mommy is. I wonder what mommy's having for dinner tonight and where she's staying. And I'm just like, this is delusional. My father's behavior starts going. He's this very, my father was, as I said, a very violent man, a very abusive man.

He starts going from being, you know, this, this machismo like asshole, like this,

violent guy to being very sort of passive and it's very weird but he would come home and sometimes i noticed like strange bruises on his arm so i'd be like remembering okay gonna tell dave about that tomorrow he had these cuts all over his hands my father always had these really well manicured hands he had cuts all over his hands the next time i saw he he asked me to rub ben gay on his shoulders because he was sore he said he was moving boxes

Around the middle of January, so I'm doing this amateur salute thing in my house at 11 years old. Around the middle of January, my dad says, I'm going to go pick up paperwork in my office. Do you want to come with me? I was like, absolutely, because I want to keep my eyes on him all the time. We stop at this gas station on the way back home, and he goes into the gas station. I'm like, okay.

I'm looking through the windshield watching him, and I just start rummaging through his truck, and I open up the center console. I find two photographs. One is of a house that I've never seen before. And the second one is of Sherry and her two kids sitting in front of fireplaces covered in plastic. And I'm like, okay, this is a new house. Clearly. I've never seen this before.

It's a brand new house.

After finding these photographs, Collier goes to school and calls Dave Messmore to tell him... about his discovery. From there, David Messmore would do some digging and what he would find would blow the case wide open. As it turns out, Jack Boyle's mistress, Sherry Campbell, wasn't just his girlfriend. Sherry and Jack had a baby together.

In fact, Sherry had just given birth to their full-term daughter less than two weeks after Noreen went missing. And that photograph that Collier found of Sherry and her kids sitting in a brand new house? Well, Jack had recently bought them that house. Soon enough, everything was starting to make sense. Jack Boyle had fallen in love with someone else. He started a family with someone else.

And he had clearly been planning to start a whole new life with her. But now the question was, did Noreen find out about this and run away? Or did Jack kill her to start this new life. As Dave Messmore is looking at all of this, he can't help but wonder if that new house holds the answers to Noreen Boyle's disappearance. So after a little digging, they find the house.

It was three hours away from Mansfield, Ohio in the town of Erie, Pennsylvania. Slowly but surely, investigators are uncovering more about Jack Boyle's double life. And based on what happens next, it's clear that Jack was becoming more and more paranoid. He knew that the walls were closing in.

What happened was, I was noticing over the weeks that my father was getting under more and more duress, and every single night, Every single night, Dave Messmore is coming to our house to try to talk to my dad. And his lawyer is there shutting him down. So this was like around the 20th or 21st of January, 1990.

My father comes to me, and again, he seems like he's under duress because he's probably like, why do they keep coming at me? And like, why are they finding out information? As to me, he goes, you know, Collier, I know that it's been really hard on you losing mommy and mommy leaving us. It was always mommy's left us in such a state. Mommy left us here. Mommy left us. That's what I'm always saying.

He goes, I know mommy has left us all in such a state and it's really affected you. But I have a medical conference trip coming up in a couple of days. I have to go to Florida every year. We would go to Clearwater Beach, Florida for these medical conventions, but they're usually in the spring when kids are on spring break, not two or three weeks after Christmas, right?

I am forced to leave my dog. I'm forced to leave my house. And as I'm coming down the stairs, it's like a slow motion movie. There's Dave Messmore and my grandmother's screaming at him. He has a search warrant. There are cops all in my house, men and women in white lab coats. They've got all these,

got this like all these detect like equipment they're looking for stuff they're looking for my mom like they're serving a search warrant and i'm just like what is like and i knew at that point i was like okay i mean i'd already known we have we have crossed the rubicon my mother is missing and most likely dead uh my father's done something with her um and we uh you know they take me out of the house and i'm just like okay my life will never be the same

And Collier was right. His life would never be the same. Because of the emergency situation at hand, Collier was first placed in the home of his high school principal while CPS figured out his long-term placement. But his first night there was difficult. Collier said he laid in bed and just stared at the ceiling. wondering how his life had come to this.

Like we mentioned earlier, Collier also struggled with asthma. And that night, in a strange place, in a strange bed, in a horrific time of his life, he had the worst asthma attack ever. It was so bad, he had to be rushed to the ER for treatment.

and i remember going into this hospital this was mansfield general hospital and there was an honor box which is like where they keep newspapers in and you it's called another box because you put money in it you pull the paper and you only take one that you pay for and whatever the whole lobby is filled with people.

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