Vampire Killer Wayne Boden's murderous legacy

    Wayne Boden, one of Canada's most evil, notorious and discussed criminals lived at 1849 Dorchester W. apt 24. He killed his first victim a couple of doors down at 1831 Dorch W., Dorchester is now known by some as Rene Levesque Blvd. 

 Boden's murder spree started one night he met a pregnant Shirley Audette, 20, outside of the buildig a couple of doors down from his place. It was 3 October 1969.

 She had mental issues and lived in apartment 2. She stood 5'2" and weighed 135 lbs. She was sitting outside the building late that night because she couldn't sleep.

   Much incorrect information has been written about Wayne Boden and I'm here to demystify the story, based on coroners and police reports.

Boden lived on Dorchester
when he started killing

   
  Audette had been treated for some time at the Douglas Hospital for mental ailments. In early 1969 she moved in with her friend on Dorchester named Kenneth Ehlert, 26.
   In October Kenneth had been working night shifts, which left her lonely and nervous, so she constantly phoned him and frequently sat outside the building, all the while feeling very nervous.
   That's where her neighbour befriended her in a very murderous way at 2 a.m.

  Boden, a presentable young salesman,  smooth-talked her. 

  Audette even phoned her boyfriend and mentioned it to him at 3 a.m. on October 3. 

   But he called back at 5 a.m. and she didn't answer. She didn't answer because she couldn't. 

   They found her body out back fully clad in red wine flares, turtleneck and a brown leatherette vest. She was five weeks pregnant. Ehlert supposedly told police that Audette had been involved in dangerous sex with some guy, which may or may not be true. None of the bodies had major prior bruising or other marks suggested that they had been recent habitues of rough treatment.

   Regardless, that notion fueled the awful suggestion that Boden's victims were willing accomplices to his horrible acts, which is an unspeakable awful and false suggestion.
   Five weeks later, Boden - a dapper young man who had moved to Dorchester Boulevard from Dundas Ontario just outside of Hamilton - set his sights on another unsuspecting future victim.
   Marielle Archambault, 20, 5'5", 105, originally from Joliette, worked at the Charbonneau jewellery boutique in Place Ville Marie and lived at 3688 Ontario Apartment 2.
   He apparently met her via one of the city's west end nightclubs. He picked her up from worked and presented himself as Bill. He would have sex with her and murder her afterwards, as he did with the first vic. She was found dead at her place 26 November 1969 at 1:45 pm.
   She wore brown pants, green shirt with three buttons missing. Her bra had been torn apart. There was no blood on her clothing but some on her cheek and elsewhere on her body. She wasn't very buxon but there were bite marks on her right breast. There were no drugs or alcohol in her system. Cause of death was asphyxiation. Her body was on the couch and the room was tidy, a typewriter on the table and a Francoise Sagan novel on a desk. She was found by the landlady Emilia Lamarre.
   Before he moved to Calgary in May 1970, Boden would then move on to his third and most outrageous crime eight weeks later, the murder of Jean Way, a crime which several people never could get over.
   As for the cops. They had no leads. At one of the victim's homes - possibly Archambault's home - police found the picture on the left and thought that it might be the killer. They showed it on TV. But it turned out to be the father of one of the victims. He was already dead anyway. Some say he looked a bit like Boden. Here's a link to photos of Boden. He apparently worked as a male model prior to his salesman days.
His third and final local victim was Jean Way, 24, 4'11", 110, of 1850 Lincoln #203. Police surmised that she apparently knew Boden well enough to allow him into her home but she was not his girlfriend.
She had been dating Brian F. Caulfield, 22, for a month. They worked together at Geoffrion, Robert and Gelinas on St. James where he was a stock broker.
   
   The evening prior the duo had been nightclubbing until 3:15 and he left four hours later. At 5:30 p.m on Saturday January 17, 1970 he phoned her, making a date for 8 pm. He showed up at 8:15, no reply. He had no way of knowing that she was being attacked inside at that very moment. He went to the Cock'n'Bull for a couple of drinks and returned at 9:30. He entered, saw she was sleeping on the bed but couldn't wake her. He saw she was dead but she was not cold. There were no bite marks on her body. There were clothing fibers on her left hand, which indicates her struggling against her attacker. There was a grey-blue wool belt around her neck but he didn't notice it right away.

She had been strangled. Her body was covered with a green bedspread, except for the feet.
Caulfield walked to the police station and they returned to the scene with him.
   A few people have contacted me over the years mentioning that Way's death was considered a huge blow to all who knew her.
   She had apparently planned to return east. Her family, father Lewis Way of Hare Bay, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland missed her so much that they lay her baby shoes in the concrete in front of their home so she would always be remembered.

Police at Audette crime scene

   And remembered, she was, just as were the other victims of the tragic murder spree that this demented killer went on here in Montreal.
   Boden also killed another woman in Calgary. They bumped into each other in Banff, as they had been acquaintances from Hamilton. He was recognized due to a distinctive sticker on his car.
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   Boden was found guilty of the murders of Way, Archambault, Audette and Porteous and sentenced to three life sentences after some innovative dental forensic evidence was used against him in the 1972 prosecution.
   In 1977 he managed to get an American Express card sent to him in prison and in 1984 a prison director allowed him to go out with his art instructor as a humanitarian gesture, the implication being that as a sex offender he was being given a particularly hard time in prison from other inmates yet had otherwise been a model inmate.
 

Boden in the 80s

A previous outing in 1982 had gone fine.
   He went to the bathroom while dining at the Kon Tiki and then fled to freedom. He was only found the next night at the Cheers bar on Mackay.
   He told a judge that he did it because his grievances had been overlooked for 13 years.
   Boden's flight led to a change of policy for outings by dangerous offenders. Ater he was caught an investigation was undertaken to find out how a life long prison inmate could get a credit card. He died in prison in 2006 after 34 years of imprisonment.
The point of rehashing all this gruesome and sad information is to state that the legend of Wayne Boden is false. His victims were normal girls, not sex cult fetish devotees. Let's respect their memories.

 Boden did not kill Norma Vaillaincourt in July 1968. Raymond Sauve eventually confessed to that crime, 26 years later. Boden had been suspected in that murder.