Finding Mom's Killer | 3. The House on Wolf Road
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Who was Sandra Bridewell and how does she relate to the story?
Alan Rarig was found dead in a parking lot in Oklahoma.
He's partly decomposed.
He'd been shot twice, once to the head. It was a baffling tragedy. You'd think his wife would be devastated. But a far more frightening set of circumstances eventually came to light.
She was either the black widow or in bad luck. I don't know which.
people began to wonder, who was Sandra Bridewell?
These guys didn't really see her coming.
This is the unbelievable story of a femme fatale with a trail of bodies in her wake and a lifetime of deception that has never been fully aired until now.
If something ever happened to me, then they would know who did it.
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It was around middle of January. My father says to me that he was going to go to his office to pick up some paperwork. And he said, did I want to come along with him?
By mid-January 1990, Noreen Boyle had been missing for about two weeks. And her 11-year-old son, Collier, was desperately trying to find her.
We go to my father's office and on the way back, we stop at a gas station. And my father used to, do you know what mallow cups are? They're like Reese cups with marshmallow in them. He was like really into mallow cups. And so we went into the gas station to get those, but he left me in the truck. And I'm watching through the windshield and I see him inside the gas station. And I just start rummaging through his truck and I open up the center console. And that's when I find two photographs. One is of a house that I've never seen before. And the other one is of his girlfriend, Sherry Campbell, with her two kids who I knew. And they're sitting in front of a fireplace that's like covered in plastic. So it looks like a new fireplace.
What do these photos mean? Collier calls up Mansfield Police Lieutenant Dave Messmore, his partner in the hunt for his mother. And what does he say when you tell him about the photos?
Hmm. Hmm. And that was when things started to sort of get hairy.
From Sony Music Entertainment and Orbit Media, this is Finding Mom's Killer. I'm Steve Fishman. Episode 3, The House on Wolf Road. The thing about active cases is that there are unpredictable turns. This one was no exception. Lieutenant Dave Messmore's investigation was about to relocate. Almost as soon as he began looking into the disappearance of Noreen Boyle, Dave learned that her husband was planning a disappearing act of his own. Dr. Jack Boyle was leaving town.
What happened was Jack got a contract in Erie, Pennsylvania to work for a large company. He'd been traveling back and forth to Erie to set this whole clinic up.
Dr. Jack Boyle had made no secret of the move. A month earlier, he'd placed an ad in the local paper informing patients that he was shutting down his practice.
So I called up to Erie and had a detective work with me. And he started to talk to people that knew him and had met him.
It didn't take long for the Erie detective to learn about Jack. He seemed to be setting up a new life in Erie. And he'd have the means to do it. At his new job, he stood to make a lot of money, about $500,000 a year, which would be worth over a million dollars today. The detective learned that Jack had already bought a house in Erie, one a lot bigger than the Boyle house in Mansfield. 3,000 square feet, four bedrooms, a two and a half car garage, a new fireplace, and a huge unfinished basement. It was on a street called Wolf Road.
The more this detective worked on it up there, he said, that's just a lot of strange things going on with this guy. I said, yeah, I know.
For instance, there was Jack's companion when looking at houses. Here's the realtor describing that companion.
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