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

He covered her in carpet that he had just bought from the store. Then from there, he poured concrete over her. Once that dried, Jack laid down some green astroturf, and he even built shelves over top to try and conceal any signs of his new renovations. It's a horrifying thought, the process he went through to start this new life with Sherry Campbell.

But clearly, their relationship was doomed from the start. In fact, right around the time that Jack was pouring concrete over Noreen's body, Sherry was giving birth to their daughter. They now had a newborn baby. It was a new year and a new home. But the foundation of that home had cracks. both figuratively and literally. And it was only a matter of time until everything came crashing down.

Now, of course, Sherry Campbell claimed that she had no idea Noreen Boyle was buried in the basement of their new home and she would never face any criminal charges in this case. But many people over the years have had their questions on what exactly Sherry knew.

Jack's defense was really grasping at straws. They even tried dragging Noreen's name through the mud, claiming that she had been having affairs with men in law enforcement and that they actually killed her and framed Jack Boyle. They also said that the steps Jack took before the murder, like buying that tarp and jackhammer, were so stupid that he couldn't have done this.

The defense argued, quote, we hear from the prosecution about the prior calculation and design, the cold calculated planning, the scheme to hide and cover up and kill and bury. John Boyle walks in the morning of January 4th, 11 o'clock AM.

orders some carpet, puts it in his name, pays for it with a check imprinted with his name and address on it, signs his name to the check, and then comes back to pick it up at 7 o'clock. Does that ring of a scheme? A cool and calculated plan?

end quote now to everyone's surprise jack boyle actually took the stand at his trial where he continued to proclaim his innocence but if you know anything about trials you know that this usually doesn't work out in their favor in the closing statements prosecutor james mayer summed up the situation perfectly saying quote so what i'm telling you is Dr. Boyle, the evidence showed this.

He was a healer by day and a killer by night. And luckily, the jury seemed to agree because after five hours of deliberation, they found Jack Boyle Jr. guilty of second degree murder. And from there, he was sentenced to life in prison. This trial was huge for a number of different reasons. It's not often that a doctor murders his wife to start a new life with his mistress.

But another huge part of this trial that stuck out to America was the fact that Noreen and Jack's 12-year-old son testified against his father. Collier's face was plastered all over America that year. He was known as the little boy who helped get justice for his mom. When we interviewed Collier, I asked him, what was it like testifying against your dad? Was it intimidating?

I kept staring at him and he would not look at me the whole time. I kept looking at the prosecutor and I would look over at him and he wouldn't look back at me.

He's writing his notes down.

He would look up, but he wouldn't look at me. And I can remember I had to leave when I got off the witness stand and walk right past him. And I'm just like looking at him and he wouldn't look up.

He also said that the prosecution told him he didn't have to testify if he didn't want to. But Collier was more than ready.

I was very much ready. You know, again, they said, you don't have to testify. I said, that's over my dead body. Like, I was not... You know, this is the thing, and I always tell this, like, when I talk to young people, or... You know, you have these moments in life, right, where, you know, all the chips are down. Like, you just push all your chips into the middle of the table.

You're like, I'm all in. You know, I knew that... If I didn't testify and my father was acquitted, I would go back to living with him. My life would be a living hell. He would never be like, yeah, I remember when he tried to get me convicted for murdering your mom. Or I might end up in a ditch somewhere, mysteriously, or drowning mysteriously.

And I also would know, I didn't give it everything I had. You know what I mean? I was not going to let that happen. I had enough foresight, fortunately, at that age, that I knew that I would be sitting here talking to a stranger in Houston, Texas, telling the story because I knew that I would want to be able to say I did everything I could. You know what I mean?

Even if he was acquitted, like everything I could to make sure that I got justice for my mother, I left it all on the table. And I mean, it's absolutely terrifying. This is the monster in my life who has taken the person who I love the most and he has turned my whole world upside down. But I was like, you're not going to get away with this over my dead body. You're going to get away with this.

The thing that was probably the worst is that, you know, I thought, okay, my family would step up, right? And my father's side of the family didn't want anything to do with me because they wanted me to recant my testimony. They wanted me to say that I lied about that. I made everything up, that I didn't hear the noises in the middle of the night, that I didn't know any of this went on.

And my mother's side of the family said to me, my aunt Carol, my mother's sister said to me, we will not take you in because you look like your father. They lived in Baltimore, Maryland. And I was like, wow, so I am really alone. So I went into the foster care system.

Both Collier and his three-year-old sister Elizabeth were put into the foster care system. Given her young age, Elizabeth was quickly adopted by another family, but they only wanted her, not Collier. And sadly, after she was adopted, she and Collier lost contact with each other. So Collier lost a lot that year. His mother, father, sister, childhood dog, his home, his security, everything.

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