Revisiting the past is never easy, especially when history is marred by the traumatic experience of having your father murder your mother. However, it can also yield valuable insight and lead to reconciliation and healing. In this special two-part episode of Moving Past Murder, host Collier Landry reunites with the judge from his father's murder trial.
Now retired after serving over 35 years as seated judge of Richland County Common Pleas Court, the Honorable James Henson, has seen many court cases come and go. However, one trial stands above them all, forever in the annals of Richland County and Central Ohio history.
The Boyle murder trial was a month-long media sensation that gripped not only the city of Mansfield but the entire tri-state area surrounding Ohio and even national media coverage. The trial was televised daily, and eager citizens rushed home to huddle around their television screens to keep up with the "real-life soap opera.
Being the prosecution's star witness, Collier was never allowed to watch the trial. As an adult, he never really cared to. In this rare interview, Collier learns stunning new information from Judge Henson, including:. See omnystudio. James Henson - Pt. Show Notes. Part 1 of 2: An Interview with retired Richland County Common Pleas Court Judge, the Honorable James Henson Revisiting the past is never easy, especially when history is marred by the traumatic experience of having your father murder your mother.
In this rare interview, Collier learns stunning new information from Judge Henson, including: Collier learns that his father rented a cold-storage facility to store his mother's body while he prepared her grave beneath the basement floor of his new home in Erie, PA. His father lied about his previous medical career and educational history to get into private practice when his family moved to Mansfield, OH. The episode ends on a cliffhanger as Judge Henson shares a disturbing story with Collier.
