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Forensic Files

Foundation of Lies

Forensic Files

HLN

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

When the wife of a noted doctor goes missing, authorities believe it may have to do with an allegedly shady adoption ring. But then her husband goes house-shopping with another woman claiming to be his wife, and a friend finds a strange pile of concrete in his backyard. Investigators use the concrete and the hazy recollections of a young child in an attempt to find the missing woman.

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0:00.0

At the age of 12, this young man's testimony helped convict the man who murdered his mother.

0:10.0

Five years later, discrepancies in the autopsy led him to question if the murdered woman really was his mother.

0:19.0

If it wasn't, an innocent man had been sent to prison.

0:30.0

This well-manacured neighborhood in Mansfield, Ohio was home to one of the most successful doctors in town.

0:42.0

Dr. John Boyle, known as Jack the Family and Friends, had built up a thriving medical practice in Mansfield that was the envy of his colleagues.

0:52.0

He had what the investigators called the largest medical practice in Richland County.

0:57.0

One out of 13 people, and we have 130,000 people living in Richland County, used Dr. Boyle as their physician.

1:05.0

Jack and his wife, Noreen, had been married for more than 20 years.

1:10.0

Noreen enjoyed the status they had achieved in the community.

1:14.0

She was one who liked to maybe put on some heirs and she was very interested in social status and I think was concerned about what people thought of her.

1:24.0

The couple had two children, a 12-year-old son, Collier, and a two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, whom they adopted from Taiwan.

1:33.0

From outward appearances, they appeared to be a happy family.

1:38.0

But Jack Boyle had a not-so-well-kept secret.

1:43.0

Jack was having numerous sexual affairs with other women.

1:47.0

Noreen knew about Jack's affairs, but according to friends, looked the other way, in an effort to keep the family together.

1:55.0

But it wasn't long until Collier was old enough to figure things out for himself.

2:02.0

Especially after seeing his father kiss another woman romantically.

2:07.0

For Noreen, this was a last straw, and she filed for divorce.

2:13.0

Jack Boyle had been planning to move his medical practice to Erie, Pennsylvania, about three hours away.

2:20.0

He asked Noreen to join him there to make a fresh start.

2:24.0

On New Year's Day in 1990, Noreen Boyle missed a lunch date with their best friend, who called police to report her missing.

2:34.0

Collier Boyle and his grandmother told investigators that Noreen and Jack had an argument on New Year's Eve, and that Noreen left home after the argument.

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