Lieutenant Dave Messmore
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139 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard May 2025
Lieutenant Dave Messmore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons? · Finding Mom's Killer | 5. Lost Boy · 31 Mar 2025
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He did things that he hadn't done before. You know, he liked being around my kids and they taught him how to play basketball and he bought jeans. I remember seeing him ride a bike around our neighborhood for a while and he came back all sweaty and everything. He said, boy, this is fun. Yeah, I said, yeah, I know it is.
Oh my gosh, a sweet, smart little boy. He was something else.
He looked up to Dave as his protector. I mean, he had every faith in Dave.
My sister and I, we went shopping one Sunday and Collier was over at our house. So we took him to our mall and we went shopping, forgetting that he's listening to everything you're saying. I said, oh, this jacket is so cute. I really like it, but I don't think I'm going to buy it.
Well, he chimes in, well, Mrs. Messmore, you should buy that jacket. You deserve it. Well, he actually talked me into buying the jacket.
And Collier said, well, Mrs. Messmore, if Detective Messmore can find my mother, he certainly could find these packages. We didn't know what to say.
Well, no. He was just, he was beyond his 12 years is all. He acted like a little adult.
He'd always ask me, do you think my dad really did that? And I said, Collier, it was a trial, and I'm convinced, and you should be convinced now that he did it. As horrible as this whole thing is, unfortunately, your father's responsible for it. Dave felt bad for Collier. He's been traumatized too much. Way too much for an ordinary person. Oh, we love Collier, yeah.
He said, I need to talk to you. And I said, OK. And he said, would you and Sue consider adopting me? I went, God, I didn't think about that. And I said, well, Collier, we'll have to talk about that a little bit.
And I felt like Collier had no one. So I looked at him like this little boy who really was like an orphan. It just broke my heart. We had talked a lot about it. And yes, it was a decision.
I don't know. I guess the problems that he might have. Emotional problems that he might have. And could I handle that? And we decided that if we did get him, we would go into counseling. I would want to know exactly the right way to handle questions if he had questions for us. Collier wanted to be here with us, and we wanted him to be part of our family.
Sue and I talked for a day or two, and we kind of agreed that we could do it.
And the judge says, you don't think I'm going to put you with a guy that locked up your dad, do you? He said, you're not going there under any circumstances.
We thought the more people that love Collier, the better off Collier is.
We just said, we know that you are his adoptive parents, but we want to be a part of his life. An aunt and uncle. Not to interfere, nothing like that. And they absolutely said no.
His status as a doctor was somewhat elevated. So they wanted to beat that down and make sure that he's so discredited nobody would ever believe him.
She was listed as a missing person. by some of the friends of hers, not family, but that's not unusual.
Somebody will run off and they have a dispute with their spouse and they'll run away and they come back and, you know, there's only so much you can do with a missing person.
And she said, I'm telling you, this is not right. Noreen would never do that. And I said, well, maybe she was just upset. No, no, I'm telling you. I said, I'll stop over and see what's going on.
He was not like a little 11 or 12-year-old you'd normally talk to. He was just very astute, very well-spoken. Whenever his grandmother would walk away, he'd say things that make you wonder if there was something wrong.
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