Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon

Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon
Born
Cheryl Marie Wheeler

August 18, 1960
DiedFebruary 12, 2020(2020-02-12) (aged 59)
Occupation(s)Stuntwoman, martial artist, nutritionist
Years active1984–2020
Spouse
Shane Dixon
(died 1999)
[1]
Robert "Lindsey" Duncan
(m. 1999; div. 2009)
[2]
Robert "Reed" Sanders
(died 2020)
[3]
Children2 [4]

Cheryl Marie Wheeler-Dixon (August 18, 1960 – February 12, 2020) was an American stunt woman, stunt double, and stunt driver in the US movie industry. She was credited as Cheryl Wheeler-Duncan, Cheryl Wheeler, Cheryl M. Wheeler, and Sheryl Wheeler. She was stunt double for Rene Russo, Kathleen Turner, and Goldie Hawn, among others. She had two daughters, and with her husband, Lindsey Duncan, owned Genesis Today, Inc., a nutritional supplement company in Austin, Texas, and a multilevel marketing offshoot called Genesis Pure.

She and her husband, Robert Reed Sanders, were shot and killed in an apparent shootout with her ex-husband, Lindsey Duncan, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, on February 12, 2020.[5][6]

  1. ^ Biography for Shane Dixon at IMDb
  2. ^ Perry, Parker (14 February 2020). "Stunt woman, husband die in Greene County shooting". daytondailynews. Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 2 March 2020. Sanders signed a prenuptial agreement in 1999, were married, then divorced in 2009. Since the divorce, the records indicate their relationship remained sour. According to a court filing in 2016, Duncan sued Cheryl Sanders and Robert Sanders for defamation, slander, libel and other accusations.
  3. ^ Kelley, Jeremy P.; Sarah Franks, Staff Writer (14 February 2020). "Couple describe deadly shooting as ambush: 'All of a sudden, hell began'". daytondailynews. Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 18 February 2020. King said he is a former business partner of Reed Sanders and is a lay minister who performed Reed and Cheryl's wedding ceremony. He called himself Reed Sanders' "closest confidant."
  4. ^ Simmons, Carol (14 February 2020). "Grinnell Road couple involved in fatal shooting hold press conference". The Yellow Springs News. Retrieved 18 February 2020. Lindsey Duncan, who headed the Genesis Today health and wellness company and promoted green coffee bean weight loss supplements on such television shows as "Dr. Oz" and "The View," has two college-age daughters from his marriage to Cheryl Duncan.
  5. ^ "Deadly Greene County shooting involves stunt woman, her husband and ex". www.msn.com.
  6. ^ Rice, Rachel (5 June 2013). "Stunt woman gives health talk". statesman.com. Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 18 February 2020. Living life on the edge can take a toll on one's health, and on Sunday, stunt woman Cheryl Wheeler Duncan hopes to teach West Lake Hills residents what she's learned.[...]After several months of not being able to recover, a friend referred Duncan to Dr. Lindsey Duncan, a nutrition expert who later became her husband. "I was just blown away by him and his scope of knowledge and his philosophy, she said. "He worked with the philosophy of the three pillars of health – one is cleansing, one is balancing and one is building. "Duncan made a full recovery using her nutritionist's advice on cleansing her body and building her immune system back to health, and since then has gone on to perform her most challenging stunts.