WILLIAM BOYERCharged with murder

A Bowling Green man is charged with murder in the death of a woman who shared the same last name but not the same address.

Shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday, police arrested William Boyer, 33, in the death of Brooke Boyer, 29.

Police found Brooke Boyer’s body Friday afternoon in her home at 1212 E. 10th Ave. after a co-worker called 911.

Brooke was planning to go out of town Friday evening to visit her mother in Mississippi, so she left work at First Baptist Church’s Child Development Center at noon but didn’t return, according to the director, Brenda Oakley.

“We called her home and only got an answering machine,” Oakley said. “A co-worker stopped by the house and found it dark and so she called 911.”

The day care was not the only place worried.

One of Boyer’s three children, a second-grade girl at T.C. Cherry Elementary School, was supposed to be picked up at school.

“She normally rides the bus to First Baptist but her mom sent a note Friday morning and said she would be a car rider that day,” Bowling Green Independent Schools Superintendent Joe Tinius said. “It got to be well past the time when she should have been picked up, so we started trying to find the mother or someone on the card approved for pickup. We ended up reaching the grandfather, who lived near Elizabethtown, who came down and got the children.”

Police arrived at 1212 E. 10th Ave. shortly after the 3:43 p.m. call and found Brooke Boyer’s body, according to Officer Monica Woods, spokeswoman for the Bowling Green Police Department.

Woods would not talk about information obtained in interviews but said police were able to identify William Boyer as a suspect, and with the help of special units from the Kentucky State Police and Owensboro police later located him at his home at 947 Covington St., just a few hundred feet from the other address.

The two had been married, but it’s unclear whether they were divorced.

Police began negotiating with Boyer about 4 a.m. and he surrendered without incident at 8:12 a.m., Woods said.

Neither Woods nor deputy coroner Ralph Sizemore would say how Brooke Boyer was killed or how long she had been dead. Woods also would not say whether a weapon had been found.

Oakley said Brooke Boyer had worked at the day care for about a year as a lead teacher of students in pre-kindergarten to second grade. Her other two children attend the day care.

None of the children was in the home at the time of Boyer’s death and they are now with family members, Woods said.

Chris Cecil, who lives nearby on 10th Avenue, said he and other neighbors only saw Brooke Boyer in passing, but Oakley said Brooke Boyer was a wonderful person, teacher and mother.

Cecil was not aware whether police had been called to the addresses before, and Tinius said he wasn’t aware of any “domestic” issues in the family. Police had not yet determined whether calls were made to either address before.

Funeral arrangements for Brooke Boyer have not yet been made but will be held in Florence, Miss., where she is from, Oakley said.

An autopsy is being performed by the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Louisville, but the results are pending, Woods said.

Tinius said Brooke Boyer’s mother said she would be taking the children with her back to Mississippi. Still, Tinius said he will have counselors on standby in case anyone at the school needs to discuss the issue with them. No decision has been made about how the situation will be handled at First Baptist, Oakley said.

William Boyer is being held in the Warren County Regional Jail without bond, and no court date has been set.