A.K.A.: "The Vampire Rapist"
Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Rape - Left bite marks on the breasts of his 4 female victims
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: 1969 - 1971
Date of arrest: May 19, 1971
Date of birth: 1948
Victims profile: Shirley Audette, 20 / Marielle Archambault, 20 / Jean Wray, 24 / Elizabeth Pourteous, 33
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: Montreal, Quebec/Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Status: Sentenced to four life sentences in prison on February 16, 1972. Died in prison on March 25, 2006
A dyed-in-the-flesh sexual sadist, obsessed with the desire to bite female breasts, Canadian Wayne Boden became known as the 'Vampire Rapist" after his chilling method of murder. Prowling the streets of Montreal, he singlehandedly staged a two-year reign of terror with attacks that drew outrage for their brutal, animal ferocity.
23 july 1968, Norma Villancourt, 21, was death in her apartment. She was raped and strangled, her breasts savaged with bite marks. Strangely, cops found no sign of a struggle. In fact, the M.E.s noted that she had died with a faint *smile* on her lips.
Months passed before, in 1969, the killer strangled Shirley Audette and dumped her lifeless body at an apartment complex in West Montreal. Though fully clothed, Shirley had been savagely raped -- and once again there were teeth marks found on her breasts. Questioning of a former boyfried revealed fears that she was "getting into something dangerous" with a new, unknown man she'd been seeing.
November 23: Marielle Archambault left her office with a young man she called "Bill". When she didn't show up for work the next morning, her employer went to see if she was OK. He found her on the floor of her living room, another victim of the twisted strangler, who had raped her, ripped off her bra and gnawed on her breasts. A crumpled picture found in the wreckage of her flat was readily identified as "Bill" -- yet the cops could stil not connect the smiling face with a real-life suspect.
January, 1970: Our hero strikes again, picking off Jean Wray, twenty-four, in her apartment. Wray's boyfriend stopped by and noticed the unlocked door. He went in to discover her naked corpse, breasts ravaged by bloody bite marks. Despite clear-cut evidence of violence, cops once again found no sign of a protracted struggle. Yet *again*, the victim looked "serene" in death.
The fear in Montreal had died down by 1971, when the Vampire rapist when back to work in Calgary, some 2,500 miles away. Elizabeth Pourteous, a teacher, turned up missing on May 18. Her body was soon discovered in her apartment, surrounded by the wreckage of a struggle. Raped, strangled, bite marks... all the signs that the kille rhad taken his show on the road. A broken cufflink was found near the corpse.
Two of Pourteous' colleagues at the school reported that she had been seen with a young man in a blue Mercedes on the night she perished. The car featured a bull-shaped decal, advertising beef, in the window. A friend of the victim also recalled that Liz was seeing a lad named -- Bill.
May 19: Patrolmen found Wayne Boden's car near the murder scene. He was arrested a half-hour later as he approached it. He told the cops he had moved from Montreal a year earlier, and admitted to seeing Elizabeth Pourteous the night she was killed. The final confirmation of Boden's guilt was delivered by an orthodontist, who compared a cast of his teeth to wounds on the victims. that earned Wayne a life sentence.
Returned to trial in Montreal, he now openly confessed to three of the related murders, oddly balking at the slaughter of Norma Villancourt. It was plenty, regardless, and the court slapped him with four more life terms -- hopefully sealing him away from society for good.
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