Who was Robert Boyer - and where is he now?
29.06.2022 - 02:15
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The horrific events that gripped the people of a Nottinghamshire mining community 18 years ago have been revisited in a new television drama. Back in the summer of 2004, there were two unconnected killings carried out by different men within weeks and a few miles of each other.
The BBC 's six-part crime drama Sherwood tells the tale of a mysterious killer stalking the streets of a pit town still coming to grips with the sudden decline of its coal mining industry. It also centres on the fallout from the 1984 miners' strike.
Starring David Morrissey as a detective tasked with apprehending the culprit, it concluded tonight (9pm, Tuesday June 28). In real life, police were investigating the violent deaths of ex-miner Keith Frogson, 62, who was killed with a crossbow and samurai sword outside his home in the pit village of Annesley Woodhouse.
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Another former miner, Robert Boyer, then 42, was later revealed to be the man responsible. Chanel Taylor, a 23-year-old newlywed was later found dead by her husband at their home in the nearby village of Huthwaite, near Mansfield.
The killer in that case turned out to be her jealous father, Terry Rodgers, 55, who had fatally shot her just weeks after walking her down the aisle. Both killers ended up hiding out in woodland outside Annesley Woodhouse, and their crimes led to one of the biggest manhunts ever undertaken by British police.
Robert Boyer and Terry Rodgers were both convicted for their heinous crimes, with the latter admitting to manslaughter but dying in hospital in 2006, aged 57, shortly before he was due to stand trial for murder.