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Gallery - Manchester – Caribbean – California 1977 – 2017

My brother, Chris Farmer in 1976.
My brother, Chris Farmer in 1976.
Swinging from tree swing - Chris had a great zest for life.
Swinging from a tree swing - Chris had a great zest for life.
Mum and Chris at his graduation ceremony.
Mum and Chris at his graduation ceremony.
My parents with Chris and his girlfriend, Peta Frampton following Chris’s graduation ceremony from Birmingham Medical School in July 1977.
My parents with Chris and Peta in 1976.
Chris and Peta in the summer of 1977, the year before their fateful trip to Central America.
Chris and Peta in the summer of 1977.
The last known photograph of Chris and Peta taken the day before they left for Australia in December 1977.
Last photo of Chris and Peta before their travels.
Route of the Justin B.
Photographed by Boston, Chris (standing) and Peta (sitting) on the boat called the Norma – the boat which took them to the Great Blue Hole.
Photo of Chris and Peta (sitting) and friend.
Chris sailing the Justin B.
Chris sailing the Justin B.
Photographed by Boston using Russell Boston’s 110 camera, Chris is pictured with 12 year old Russell (left) and 13 year old Vince (right) at Blackadore Caye.
Chris with Russell (l) and Vince (r ) a week before the murders.
A vintage ‘nightstick’ similar to the billy club that Boston used to hit and disable Chris.
Lead lined nightstick similar to one used by Boston to bludgeon Chris.
The heavy engine parts that were lashed to Chris and Peta’s bodies.
Engine gears similar to the ones lashed to Chris and Peta.
Chris’s cross erected in Puerto Barrios Cemetery, Guatemala.
Chris’s cross, Guatemala.
Peta’s cross (her surname misspelt).
Peta's cross, Guatemala.
Silas Duane Boston taken in Sacramento in 2012, which he used as his Facebook profile picture. He was 71 by then, and 34 years had passed since he had murdered Chris and Peta.
Silas Duane Boston in 2012.
Boston’s jail pic on arrest Dec 2016.
Boston’s jail pic on arrest December 1st 2016.
Russell Boston and me in Emerald Bay, Laguna, California. July 2017.
Russell Boston and me in 2017.
With my 25-year old son Charlie, who met me in California after a back-packing tour of Southeast Asia.
With Charlie, my son, in CA in 2017.
My mother Audrey Farmer, photographed in 2017.
My mother Audrey Farmer 2018.

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Swinging from tree swing - Chris had a great zest for life.
Mum and Chris at his graduation ceremony.
My parents with Chris and his girlfriend, Peta Frampton following Chris’s graduation ceremony from Birmingham Medical School in July 1977.
Chris and Peta in the summer of 1977, the year before their fateful trip to Central America.
The last known photograph of Chris and Peta taken the day before they left for Australia in December 1977.
Photographed by Boston, Chris (standing) and Peta (sitting) on the boat called the Norma – the boat which took them to the Great Blue Hole.
Chris sailing the Justin B.
Photographed by Boston using Russell Boston’s 110 camera, Chris is pictured with 12 year old Russell (left) and 13 year old Vince (right) at Blackadore Caye.
A vintage ‘nightstick’ similar to the billy club that Boston used to hit and disable Chris.
The heavy engine parts that were lashed to Chris and Peta’s bodies.
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