EP. 183: OHIO - The 11-Year-Old Who Helped Solve His Mom's Murder
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What happened to Noreen Boyle?
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The new year is supposed to represent a clean slate, new goals and resolutions, better habits, a fresh start. Many people spend some time reflecting on the year behind them and make plans on how they're going to make the next year even better. That was definitely the case for a man named Jack Boyle Jr. in 1989. That had been a difficult year for Jack for months, He had been looking at his life in 1989 and picturing how different things could be for him in 1990. But the only thing standing in the way of this new glamorous life was Noreen Boyle, Jack's wife. So this is the story of how Noreen Boyle suddenly vanished in the early morning hours of January 1st, 1990. It's also a story about how their 11-year-old son Collier would help solve his mother's murder. I'm Courtney Browen.
And I'm Colin Browen.
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Noreen Marie Schmidt was born on September 28, 1945, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, Norbert Schmidt, served in the Marine Corps, but after becoming disabled, he found work at a Philadelphia Naval shipyard as a night warehouseman. Noreen's mother, Marie, worked at a small-town loan and savings company. So, Noreen came from humble beginnings. Her parents didn't have a lot, but they made it work. Noreen's sister Carol said in an interview with The Plain Dealer that their family would even take in boarders to make ends meet.
Noreen, or Nori as her friends called her, had a number of great qualities. She was kind, generous, smart, thoughtful. But before you even got to know any of these qualities, you would see that she was effortlessly beautiful. She had this light blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and a great style that drew people's attention. And on April 23rd, 1962, at just 17 years old, these very qualities would catch the eye of John F. Boyle Jr., otherwise known as jack jack would later say that on that beautiful spring day he and his friends had just arrived at a drive-in diner called the hot shop and all of a sudden he sees a car of girls pull up next to them jack and his friends were very interested in this group of pretty girls and they all rolled their windows down and started introducing themselves but jack had his eyes set on the beautiful blonde sitting in the back seat
He would later write a letter to his son Collier explaining this interaction. In it, Jack says, quote, When everyone was exchanging names, all I saw was her. I said to her, Hey, you in the back seat, what's your name? In true mommy fashion, she pulled the glasses down over the bridge of her nose, looked up over them at me and said, Noreen. "'What's yours?' After that time, "'we were inseparable for the rest of our lives.'" And that was true. After meeting that day at the drive-in diner, Jack and Noreen were inseparable, and they both came from similar backgrounds.
According to the Boyle family, Jack's father, John F. Boyle Sr., was a newspaper reporter. His mother, Christine Boyle, worked as a sales clerk at a local department store, so he too came from a working middle-class family. But Jack was ashamed of his upbringing. He didn't like that he came from humble beginnings. So, throughout his life, he worked hard to really make something of himself. you see the one thing about both jack and noreen was that they were both highly intelligent after high school they both attended the university of pennsylvania which is an ivy league school noreen would end up graduating from upenn and from there she became a successful dental hygienist
On June 1st, 1968, at 23 years old, Noreen and Jack would get married in what Jack described as the downstairs, quote, poor person's church in Penwyn, Pennsylvania. And from the outside looking in, they had an incredible life ahead of them. Jack was attending medical school on his way to becoming a doctor. And while he worked on that, Noreen supported them by working as a dental hygienist.
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