In 1982, a quiet town in Kansas was rocked by the murder of a young banker named David Harmon who was bludgeoned to death in his bed. His wife told authorities that it was a home invasion. Investigators suspected that she was having an affair with a family friend and that the two were involved in David’s murder. But the case went cold until nearly 20 years later, armed with new forensic technology, police zeroed in on the couple. “48 Hours" Correspondent Hannah Storm reports. This classic "48 Hours" episode last aired on 7/7/2007. Watch all-new episodes of “48 Hours” on Saturdays, and stream on demand on Paramount+. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Collier Boyle was lying awake at night when he heard something horrible. It was going through your mind at that time. Where's my mother? She would never, ever leave her children. His best hope? To team up with a middle-aged detective with a chip on his shoulder. I got a partner now. Somebody who's going to help me find out what happened to my mother.
His whole life is a lie.
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Every time you've got an unsolved murder, you've got somebody walking around in your community that's killed somebody.
David was just a very, very nice guy. They were just the normal all-American young couple living next door. My husband and I were asleep in bed and just startled by a series of loud thumps on the other side of the wall. It's just a sound that he'd never heard before. I said, I am going to put my ear to the wall. If I hear anything else, I am calling the police.
I heard nothing, absolutely nothing. For the next hour or more, I was just still awake and restless. The next thing that happened was I heard a loud pounding on the door. And it was Melinda.
When David Harmon got murdered, I was on call that weekend.
According to police, sometime during Sunday nights here on Sheridan Drive in Olathe,
My name is Paul Morrison. In 1982, I was an assistant district attorney here in Johnson County. That was the first murder scene that I'd ever seen. One of the most brutal murder scenes that I've ever seen in my career. Very, very bloody. He was disfigured so badly that the initial officers thought he'd been shot in the face with a shotgun.
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