Lieutenant Dave Messmore
Appearances
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
He had told people that his family was very important back in Pennsylvania where they lived. Mainline Pennsylvania people. None of that was true.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
He was pretty well known around the hospital and the doctor's areas for having girlfriends and picking up girls. And people I talked to, they said that he's pretty much a philanderer. The more I talked to, the worse it got. And I thought, well, it's not a normal situation. He's not a family man.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
I talked to a nurse who had been dating him off and on, and she left town. And she went to Florida. She was afraid of him. He found her condo. She said she came home and found that he'd broken in there. He took all of her clothes that he had purchased for her and threw them into a bathtub and then urinated on them.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
As an indication that, I guess, that you didn't stay around with me, but I picked up another girl, that type of thing. This is how bizarre he is. I mean, he's got a real deep, deep problem.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
I called the Navy investigators in the Pentagon, and they looked him up and... And what did he do? Nothing. He never set foot on a boat. He couldn't fly. His whole life is a lie.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
He would call me frequently, and I'd talk to him whenever I could. He was just worried, did you find my mother? And I said, no, Collier, not right now. I'm working on it, though. Just to reassure him.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 2. The Stories We Tell
Well, it kind of developed that way. I don't know that he was interested in it, but he had nobody else to confide in.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He was beside himself. He didn't cry, but he was emotionally distraught. And he convinced me that there was something wrong. I'd never encountered a child that young to be so well-spoken. He was not like a little 11- or 12-year-old you'd normally talk to. He was just very astute. At that point, I couldn't really pass it off to another detective.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He was in despair. I just wanted to get it done, and I wanted to be able to tell Collier that we found his mother.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
The more you talk to other people that are acquainted with him, you find out an awful lot about that person. And in his case, he had a completely different personality. You know, he was always laughing and joking around with people. But that wasn't him. That was a facade.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
She was listed as a missing person. by some of the friends of hers, not family, but that's not unusual.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Somebody will run off and they have a dispute with their spouse and they'll run away and they come back and, you know, there's only so much you can do with a missing person.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And she said, I'm telling you, this is not right. Noreen would never do that. And I said, well, maybe she was just upset. No, no, I'm telling you. I said, I'll stop over and see what's going on.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He was not like a little 11 or 12-year-old you'd normally talk to. He was just very astute, very well-spoken. Whenever his grandmother would walk away, he'd say things that make you wonder if there was something wrong.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He said, my mother would never leave without me, without me knowing where she was going.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He said, something happened, and I said, okay, I'll work on that.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Well, she said, that doesn't sound right. She said, that doesn't sound like a kid that doesn't know where his mother is. And I said, well... So I'm going to go back and see if I can't talk to him some more.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And she said, what do you want? And I said, well, I'd kind of like to talk to you and Collier again. Well, why do you come around bothering people like this? I said, I'm not bothering anybody. I just like to solve this and find out where she is. I said, when is Dr. Boyle going to be home? Well, he should be back tonight. This is starting to bother me.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
On the door, when I got there, was a letter that said, no one in this house has permission to talk to the police. and was signed by an attorney I know. A note on the door wasn't going to stop Lieutenant Dave Messmore. So when I knocked on the door, the attorney answered the door. And I said, what's going on here? Well, the doctor doesn't really have anything to say. His wife walked out and left.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
There's nothing he can really tell you. I said, well, I'd like to talk to him. He said, well, he doesn't want to talk.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Some of the guys that worked for me were ex-Marines. So they said, yeah, we know about Dr. Boyle. He's an ex-Navy doctor, retired Navy doctor, flew jets over in Vietnam. And he's just a great guy.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Apparently there was some talk of divorce, but I didn't know exactly what the circumstances were.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
He and I had a lengthy conversation. He described to me what he heard that night that she went missing.