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Episode 194: Amateur Detective

Not Today

Not Today

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.4933 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On New Years Eve 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry was awoken out of his sleep by the sound of a scream and two loud thuds. The next morning he discovered that his mother had disappeared, and his father claimed that she had gone on "a little vacation." Collier knew his father had murdered his mother, but he needed the police to believe him. At the age of 12 Collier became the star witness in the his mother's murder case, and with his testimony was able to put his father away for life.



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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Steph, and this is not today. Hello and welcome back.

0:13.0

If you're new here, good morning.

0:15.0

Good.

0:18.0

Hello and welcome back.

0:22.0

Or welcome, if you're new here.

0:24.0

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.

0:26.0

I don't know you choose when you listen and that's the beauty of podcasts.

0:30.0

I've got quite the story for you today.

0:33.0

Today we're going to be talking about Collier Landry, who was only 11 years old when

0:38.0

his father murdered his mother.

0:40.0

This case was unbelievable to me because Collier was a child when it happened, but it was almost as if he was one of the only adults in the situation.

0:51.0

And I'll get into specifically why I think that later on, but almost everyone in his life could have and should have done better.

0:59.0

No person should ever experience what he went through, let alone an 11 year year old but I will say he was a very

1:05.4

impressive child I feel like when people say oh he had an old soul that's what I

1:11.0

think of when I think of 11 year old Collier. With that being said, he definitely had to grow up really fast with a lot of the things he experienced in his life.

1:20.0

So I think that definitely contributed to his old soul quality, but also he was just a very smart child and like I said impressive.

1:29.4

And I think you'll agree with me once you hear this story as well so with all that being said why don't we just

1:35.7

jump in? Jack Boyle had met Noreen Schmidt when she was 17 years old and he was 19.

1:42.8

And from the moment Jack laid his eyes on her in the backseat of her friend's Volkswagen, he

1:47.3

thought she was beautiful.

1:49.1

She had bright blonde hair and piercing blue eyes and she was looking at him.

1:53.8

They were in high school when they first met, but their relationship continued throughout

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