REVIEW: The Hulu docuseries 'Demons & Saviors' re-examines the case of a supposed telekinetic teen who later pled guilty to killing her three-year-old daughter.
. Her adopted family in Columbus, Ohio – she alleges that her brother molested her, and both parents beat her – invited the media in, the story was featured on an episode of, and a parapsychologist, William Roll, made Boyer a sort of pet project, and allegedly bilked her out of some money made from a book project about her case.
, concluding that young Tina was faking the occurrences. And a news camera even caught Tina knocking over a table lamp herself and delivering a frightened scream. At this early point in the series,is already a sad story of an abused, mentally unstable teen turned into a sideshow freak by grubby opportunists.
But this is all merely a prelude to a more earthbound tale of guilt and innocence, crime and punishment. Boyer had a daughter, Amber, and ended up in a small Georgia town, where she was viewed as an outsider. She got a boyfriend, David Herrin, who was watching Amber at home shortly before the toddler was rushed to the hospital with blunt force trauma injuries that proved fatal, and clear signs of physical abuse.
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