Older Collier Landry Boyle
Appearances
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
As I was laying there, the feet still in the doorway, I was telling myself if I can just make it through this moment, that I'm gonna be okay. And as I'm thinking about all that, The feet leave.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And I go downstairs and my father is sitting on the couch in the living room, watching television with a towel wrapped around his waist. Like he had just got done taking a shower. And I said to him, where is my mother? And he still was watching television. He didn't answer me. And I said, where is my mother? And he looked up at me. So matter of factly, well, mommy took a little vacation, Collier.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And I said, well, what, what happened? Well, your mother came down. She was hollering at me and she got so angry at me. She threw her credit cards at me. And then he said, I saw these headlights come through. I reached for my glasses. Your mother left. She starts walking away.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
She walks through the kitchen, leaves out the back door, and she goes down the driveway, and I rush to go to the window, and I see her get into that car, and the car drives away. He goes, okay, so we're not gonna call the police. We're gonna let her come back. We're not gonna call the FBI. He leaves, and at that point, my grandmother has gotten up,
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
My grandmother says to me, okay, well, you heard what your father said?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
One of the things that I did is I saved my mother's friend's phone numbers. I wrote them all on a piece of paper and I stuck them in this little stuffed Garfield that I had, this little Santa Claus Garfield I stuck inside the hat. And my mother had just got a cordless phone.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
So I grab the phone, I run upstairs, I grab the list, I lock myself in my mother's bathroom and I just start calling everybody on the list. And I start telling them what happened, and I said, my father said not to call the police, but I'm telling you, call the police.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Dave told me when I was speaking to him that he would keep everything that we said secret. Because I didn't want to get in trouble. And I wanted to find my mother.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
My grandmother was making dinner. My father comes home, and then Dave comes to the door again. I was anxious, right? Because I've defied my father, and I'm trying to be an earshot at the door, trying to see what's going on, and also trying to see, okay, is he going to say anything? He doesn't. He doesn't say, oh, I've talked to the kid, or he doesn't say anything. You know what I mean?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
So I knew that I could trust him then. I got a partner now. I got somebody who's going to help me find out what happened to my mother. Me and Dave.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
I had to find out what happened. But I also was dreading the fact that Batman was an orphan who lost both his parents. You want to be the Dark Knight, the detective. But at the same time, you don't want to lose your family, right?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
That really galvanizes me into doing this, like, amateur sleuth detective work or whatever. You know, I'm going to find, start gathering clues. I'm going to look for anything that I could find that was out of the ordinary.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
It was like late morning, early afternoon. The doorbell rings, and it's this guy in a sport coat with a bushy mustache, glasses, khaki pants, named Dave Messmore.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Collier hovered in the background. I'm standing there over my grandmother's shoulder and Dave was saying to my grandmother, well, you know, I'd like to talk to the doctor and, you know, just kind of curious, but, you know, he was just very calm. He's a very calm guy, very collected. I mean, very detective-like, you know what I mean?
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
Just looking around, looking at things, taking everything in, just, I'm going to get to the bottom of this type of thing. And I remember he kind of charms his way in and my grandmother's like, I'm going to call my son. And she goes and she leaves to go make the phone call in the kitchen. And I knew at that point that that was like my one shot because here I am alone with a police officer.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And I say to Dave, I look him dead in the eyes, and I say, my mother would never leave me.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And I think he's looking at me in a very peculiar way, like, who is this kid? He could just tell I was so adamant.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
I could just tell when I said to Dave, my mother would never leave me. Something has happened to her. He just looked at me like he could tell that I was serious. I remember in that moment that there was this hope.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
I knew it was my chance right there to just get it all out, right? I don't know if I'm ever going to get this opportunity again.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And we saw my father's truck come down the driveway with my grandmother inside. And my grandmother came in and my father stayed for a second. He then left. Around 8 o'clock, 8.30, my mom was like, it's time for bed. I gave my grandmother a hug and a kiss, goodnight. And I gave my mom a hug and a kiss, goodnight.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
I had little collectible Garfield stuffed plush toys on the dresser. And then I had my Batman clock on the wall because I loved the movie Batman. I wanted to be Batman. Then next to me on the wall, there's a painting of a small little sailboat with a little boy inside. And it says Collier that my mom had a muralist paint on the wall.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
I'm pretty sure I heard a scream and I was kind of frozen in my bed for a second. I didn't get up. And then I heard this loud thud, boom. And then I heard this really low muttering. And I can see my little sailboat on the wall. Then I looked to the dresser with the little Garfields and I see the Batman clock up on the wall and it's like 317, 318 AM.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And then another 30, 60 seconds later, I hear another one of those loud thuds. And I remember thinking something terrible is happening. I then started hearing these footsteps creak slowly down the hall. And I always slept with my door open. So I'm curled up, but I can see out of my peripheral vision, the edge of the door into the hallway.
The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer
Finding Mom's Killer | 1. A Little Vacation
And I'm counting the footsteps and all I want to do is look up, but I'm just staying still. And then the footsteps stop and I can see two feet in the doorway. I can see them out of my peripheral vision and I can see my sailboat mural on the wall. And then I can see the Batman clock. and everything inside my body was screaming, don't look up.