Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
11-Year-Old Witness to Murder | Collier Landry Speaks
Sat, 02 Nov 2024
Collier Landry recounts his mother’s murder, when he was 11-years-old, and how he helped authorities convict his father. Landry recalled hearing a ruckus in his house, later finding out that the noise was his father murdering his mother. Check out Coilliers Links https://campsite.to/collierlandry Follow me on all socials! Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/matthewcoxitc Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidetruecrime/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@matthewcoxcrime Follow my 2nd channel - Inside The Darkness! https://www.youtube.com/c/InsidetheDarknessAutobiographies Want to be a guest? Send me an email here! [email protected] Want a custom Con man painting shown up at your doorstep every month? Subscribe to Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/insidetruecrime Get a custom painting done by me! Check out my link! https://www.etsy.com/shop/coxpopart Listen to True Crime Podcasts anywhere! https://anchor.fm/mattcox Check out my prison story books here! https://www.amazon.com/Matthew-Cox/e/B08372LKZG Support me here! Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/MattCox69 Cashapp: $coxcon69
Chapter 1: What traumatic experience did Collier Landry witness as a child?
She says, Collier, I want you to know something. I would never leave you. And I was like, well, of course not, Mommy. I know that. And she goes, if I ever do, I want you to know that your father probably had me killed. Next thing I know, I'm startled awake by hearing a scream. And I look at this clock. I have this Batman clock on the wall, and it's about 3.18 a.m.,
And then I hear two loud thuds about 60 seconds apart. And between those thuds, I hear my father muttering. I recognize his voice. And then I count 12 footsteps as they walk down the hallway. And I always slept with my door open. And in the doorway, I can see out of my peripheral vision, the two feet stop in my doorway.
Hey, it's Matt Cox, and I'm here with Collier Landry. And Collier has an interesting story. In fact, I remember watching a documentary on this related subject. So as soon as I saw it, I was like, oh, wow. I looked into it. I was like, oh, wow, I need to talk to this guy. This is super interesting. And I watched some videos. And so anyway... Check this out.
I was watching one of your first, like, you know, we were contacted. Then I started watching one of your videos and I was kind of like, that sounds familiar. And then I went and as you were telling the story, I remembered and I remember telling my girlfriend as we were watching. I was like, oh, my God, I remember watching this like 20, like before I even went to prison.
I think I watched or maybe it was when I was in prison. I watched one of those videos. you know, one of the documentary type shows. Uh, I don't think I watched the whole, I don't think I'd watched an entire, like a two hour documentary. I want to say it was one of those one hour. You probably watched forensic files that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
Like everybody else has.
Yeah. Yeah. Um, Yeah. So and then I got to the part I watched one of the shows where you actually had confronted your father. And I never you know, I don't know what ended up happening with that. We were we were like we were doing like four or five different things at the same time. And I was like, oh, I'm going to interview this guy. I've got to interview this guy.
So that's my documentary. That's a murder in Mansfield that I made when I confront him. Forensic Files is how a lot of people know me. mostly because I was this kid that was involved in this massive murder trial. And I was like the center of it, all of it. Right. And that's how a lot of people know me.
And then I, in my process, which we're going to get into all this, but I had made a film called a murder in Mansfield because I did all of these things to try to find out why my father murdered my mother. Right. And it culminates in this, you know, sort of scene, which is like right over my shoulder here of me confronting my father in prison.
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Chapter 2: How did Collier's relationship with his father change over time?
we cannot take you in because you look like your father. Okay.
So I was, there's a whole bunch of really, really logical people.
Very, very logical and rational people involved in this entire situation. And it's very, it's, it's a very peculiar situation to be in when you are the youngest person in this scenario, yet you are the adult. Right. And I'm just dumbfounded. I'm completely devastated that my family has nothing to do with me.
And I go into the foster care system, which I don't know if anyone understands the foster care system in the United States or how it works, but it's fucking horrible. Despite the circumstances in there, it's just not, it's not great. And I, I basically have to, while in foster care, Come to terms with the fact that my father has murdered my mother. He's about to go to trial.
I'm the key witness in this trial. And even though prosecutors said to me, well, you know, we don't need you to testify if you don't want to. You don't have to testify. I was like over my dead body. Because when it goes to trial, I'm 12 years old, so I turn 12 a month after all this happens, after they dig the body up and I'm in the foster care and all this stuff, right?
And I really, in the nadir of my life, have to somehow find the courage and the strength to go, okay, I'm gonna do what's right. I've been doing what's right for the last several months for my mother, for my family. And I'm going to tell the world what I know and face this monster in court. And a lot of people were under the impression that the, that I was, it was like videotape testimony.
Like you phone in. No, I was in the courtroom and the videotape is because they were filming me in court for the news because the trial was televised live throughout the courtroom. And they actually had, it was such a circus that the courtrooms filled up every day. It was like the hottest ticket in town.
And so they had to put television monitors out in the hallways of the courthouse so people could line up to watch the trial. And of this doctor, you know, who murdered his wife. And my father had a high power legal team and all these things. And, you know, for that time, right, there's no Johnny Cochran, but like for Mansfield, he had a high power legal team.
And I just thought to myself, like, the thing is, is that you have two choices. You can tell, you can do the difficult thing, which is tell the truth, face this monster. and, and honor your mother and do what you know is right, or you can do nothing.
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