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 I remember we're walking towards the honor box and my principal in my school, then ring about grabs me and sort of shifts me over this other direction. And they take me into this like little private consultation room. And one of our family friends, who's a cardiologist, his name is Dr. Bay. He he's, he is there.

He's got some shots and he gives me a breathing treatment and go through the whole thing. And I can really breathe my lungs open up and thank God. Right. So then they say to me, they say, Collier, Lieutenant Messmore found your mother, and it seems like this eternal pause, and she was dead.

Now, it's really, really difficult to articulate the cognitive dissonance that occurs when someone says this to you, because on one hand, you are relieved in a way because you, what you knew in your heart and what you were experiencing, like you weren't gaslighting yourself, you knew was true.

Unbeknownst to Collier at the time, as investigators were searching his home in Mansfield, another set of investigators were executing a search warrant at Jack's new house in Erie, Pennsylvania, the home he shared with Sherry Campbell. And there, Under the basement floor, investigators found the body of Noreen Marie Schmidt Boyle. She was dead at just 44 years old.

An autopsy would reveal that she had blunt force trauma to her head, but her ultimate cause of death was asphyxiation. When investigators told Collier the horrific news, The first thing that came out of his mouth was the last thing you'd expect to hear from an 11-year-old. With tears in his eyes, he said, that bastard.

There was absolutely no doubt in his mind that his father had murdered his mother. It was something he knew from the very beginning. And soon after the discovery of Noreen's body, Jack Boyle Jr. was arrested for her murder.

And all I can remember is my mom, when my grandmother, her mother died, and she was very close to her father. And she said, you've got to be strong for pop-up. And I just remember walking in there, I was 11 years old. And I was like, you got to be strong for everybody. You got to be strong for all these people, Collier, because you're in the middle of like, this is, this is like, this is it.

And it's, you know, it's like, you know, your whole world is just never going to be the same. You just lost the most important person in your life, which you kind of knew was already the case. You now have no father. He's been arrested, you know, and, and all this stuff is happening. Like what's going to happen? Like. And this is like when the real shit starts to hit the fan.

It's like, you know, I go back that night to one of the principals of my school's house and Dave Messmore comes and visits me and he just explains to me like what happened and how they found her. And he said, remember the house? And I said, yeah. And he goes, that's where we found her. They found her buried underneath the basement floor.

And he asked me, he goes, have you ever seen any indoor-outdoor carpeting on your house? And I said, yeah, we had it sitting on our back porch for like three months. And he goes, yeah. And he said, have you ever seen a blue tarp? And I said, yeah, I was with my father when I bought it at Kmart. He goes, yeah, that's what my father wrapped her body in.

To everyone's surprise, Jack Boyle's crimes began long before the murder of his wife Noreen. In fact, years earlier, another police department in Baltimore had been investigating him. As it turns out, on January 13th, 1987, Three years before Noreen was murdered, Jack's niece filed a complaint stating that he had sexually molested her and her younger sister.

The abuse spanned over a period of two years in the late 1970s, beginning when one of the girls was 11 and the other was just nine years old. During that time, Jack would get the girls alone and pretend he was giving them physicals, as doctors do. But in reality, he was using this opportunity to inappropriately touch them. Now, it would take about 10 years for the girls to come forward,

The allegations didn't come to light until 1986 when one of Jack's nieces attempted suicide. Afterwards, she would go through intensive therapy and it was there where she felt comfortable enough to tell her therapist about the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of her uncle. Now from there, detectives in Baltimore investigated the claims for seven whole months.

But sadly, in the end, the girls didn't wanna testify against him. It was too traumatic for them, having to stand up against their uncle, the man who stole their innocence. So nothing ever came from this. Now Collier would later tell us that he had no idea any of this had happened, but he did notice a strange disconnect within his family at the time.

After all, these were his cousins on his mom's side, and randomly they just stopped coming around. Now, when these investigators in Baltimore heard that Jack Boyle had been arrested for murdering his wife, they actually called Dave Messmore and told him about the sexual assault allegations. They even said, quote, you get him for us.

We have no doubt in our minds that he'd be capable of murdering his wife. We couldn't get him, so get him for us, end quote.

So as you can see, Jack Boyle clearly lived a double life. In Mansfield, Ohio, he was this respected doctor with wealth and a beautiful family. But behind closed doors, he was a womanizer, a violent man who terrorized people, and he was allegedly molesting little girls.

Now it's around this time when his wife Noreen started to feel very unhappy in her marriage, which is why in early 1989, she decided to adopt Elizabeth from Taiwan. But unbeknownst to Noreen, at the time of Elizabeth's adoption, Jack was already in another relationship, this time with 28-year-old Sherry Campbell. And sadly, just a few months after they adopted Elizabeth,

Sherry was pregnant with Jack's baby. And it's here where the prosecution believes that Jack started planning Noreen's murder. But how would they prove this? Well, at this point in the trial, it was time to bring forward the prosecution's star witness. And that was none other than Collier Landry Boyle, Jack and Noreen's then 12-year-old son.

On the day that Collier was brought forward as a witness, everyone watching couldn't believe it. Up walks this cute little boy with braces on his teeth. He's wearing a navy shirt with a red collar, and he confidently takes a seat on the witness stand, just feet away from his father. Collier was more than ready to help get justice for his mom.

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