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 the prosecution starts by asking him about the relationship he had with his parents.

As you'll hear from the clips, Collier was a very brave and articulate little boy. Throughout his testimony, he surprisingly made a lot of people laugh. Most of the funny moments that Collier had on the stand were humorous because he was saying things that you would never expect to hear from a 12-year-old little boy. But that in itself is a tragedy.

Nothing makes you grow up more quickly than trauma and call your experience trauma that no child should ever be exposed to. But in this next part, the prosecutors ask him about his experiences with Sherry Campbell.

Now Collier had no idea when he met Sherry Campbell that she was pregnant with his father's child. And unbeknownst to everyone, Jack had been fully planning to start a new life with her. The prosecution discovered that on November 11th, 1989, Both Jack and Sherry, who was almost seven months pregnant at the time, walked into a real estate office in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Jack introduced himself to the realtor, and Sherry introduced herself as his wife. And on that day, the couple was looking to find a home in the area. The realtor said that they were all smiles, clearly excited about their new life together. That day, they drove around the wealthy neighborhoods looking to find the perfect home for their growing family. Then finally...

After looking at eight different houses, they found it. It was this huge house covered in snow. The front door was bright red and it had a lot of room and space for this new chapter of their lives. Now, when negotiating on the house, Jack offered to pay full price, but he demanded that the home be ready for him to move into on January 1st, 1990. And he was adamant about that date.

likely because that was also the date he planned on murdering his wife and he would need a place to hide the body so the following day jack and sherry signed a contract for a 299 000 lakefront home in the affluent neighborhood in mill creek township adjusted for inflation that's about 750 000 today but perhaps the most twisted part of this comes from how the two signed the contract

Sherry actually signed the papers in Sherry Boyle. Now, Sherry would end up testifying at Jack's trial. And of course, she claimed that she had no idea Jack was married with a family until she was around six months pregnant. But that clearly wasn't true because Collier had met her earlier that summer and he told her that his mom had the same ring she was wearing.

So she had to have known that Jack had a family. Plus, the Boyles were well known in town. Everyone in town knew that Dr. Boyle was married with kids. But on the stand, when asked why she continued to be with Jack after learning about his marriage, Sherry stated to the jury, quote, one lie doesn't mean you can't trust a man, end quote.

Now, many have wondered over the years, why even kill Noreen? She was already divorcing him. So why not just let her leave? Well, one thing to know about Jack Boyle is that he is a man that needs control. Divorces can be long and treacherous. You have to split up your assets and sometimes the process can take years. So killing Noreen meant that he could eliminate all of that extra stress.

And from there, He could move to a new city and start a whole new life without any baggage. So that's what he decided to do. And sadly, Noreen must have seen this coming because it's around this time when she started telling people that if anything ever happened to her, Jack was responsible. At the trial, Collier testified about that conversation he had with his mom.

Some of Noreen's friends also testified. It was very clear that Noreen was scared for her life and she had every right to be because a few days after Christmas of 1989, Jack Boyle would drive to Home Depot and rent out a jackhammer.

The details on what exactly happened that night are still a little unclear. But as we mentioned earlier, Jack and Noreen didn't sleep in the same bed together. But Collier said that his little sister Elizabeth always slept with his mom. At three years old, she would get scared at night. And to find comfort, she would walk over to her mother's room and crawl into bed with her.

It's believed that late that night, after everyone had gone to bed, Jack Boyle crept over to his wife's bedroom holding a hammer. When he walked inside, both Noreen and Elizabeth were fast asleep. And it's here where he lifted up the hammer and slammed it down onto the back of Noreen's head two times. The thud of the hammer jolted Collier awake.

It also woke up Elizabeth, and after seeing what she saw, she let out a scream, a scream that Collier heard from several rooms down.

Now, Elizabeth was far too young to testify at Jack's trial, but after Noreen went missing, three-year-old Elizabeth actually told investigators, quote, daddy came in and hit mommy on the head and then wrapped her up like a snowman, end quote. So horrifically, it's believed that Elizabeth watched Noreen's murder.

Autopsy results would prove that Noreen did have blunt force trauma to the back of her head, but horrifically, Those blows didn't cause her death. After rendering her unconscious, Jack grabbed a plastic bag and wrapped it around Noreen's head until she passed away. From there, with the plastic bag still around her head, Jack wrapped Noreen's body in a tarp

But the details of what happened next are unclear. One thing we know for sure is that Jack knew he had to get the body out of the house, but his house in Erie wasn't ready yet. So what did he do with her? Well, Collier told us that his dad rented out a cold storage unit around this time. So it's believed that after killing her that night, he took her body to that cold storage.

He then returned back home and started coming up with his story about how Noreen got up and left in the middle of the night.

Over the next week or so, Jack went to work tearing out the floors of his basement and the new home that he shared with Sherry Campbell. And he went through a lot of work to conceal his crime. After tearing up the basement with a jackhammer, he retrieved Noreen's body drove it over state lines into Erie, Pennsylvania, and then placed his wife within the basement floors.

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