Wayne Boden, ‘Vampire Killer’ who bit breasts of victims dies in prison
from AZCentral.com (and Canadia Press)
KINGSTON, Canada - A serial killer who terrorized Canada with a string of slayings of young women in Montreal and Calgary more than 30 years ago has died in prison.
Wayne Boden, whose penchant for biting the breasts of his victims earned him the nickname the “Vampire Killer,” died in hospital earlier this week at Kingston Penitentiary.
Corrections Canada attributed Boden’s death to “natural causes” and said funeral arrangements were still being made.
Boden was locked up in 1972 after four women in Montreal were found raped and strangled, all with bite marks on their breasts, between 1968 and 1970.
He confessed to three of the killings after a teacher in Calgary was found dead in 1971.
Boden, who was in his late 50s, had been ill and was transferred to Kingston from his home institution of Bath about six weeks ago.
On July 23, 1968, Norma Villancourt, a 21-year-old teacher, was found dead in her Montreal apartment, having been raped and strangled, and with bite marks on her breasts.
Victims Shirley Audette, 20, Marielle Archambault, 20, and Jean Wray, 24, followed. All were raped and murdered and found with bite marks.
Then, in 1971, teacher Elizabeth Pourteous, 33, vanished in Calgary and she was also found raped and strangled. A cufflink was found near her body.
Boden, a travelling salesman, was arrested shortly afterward. He told police that he had moved from Montreal a year earlier, admitted seeing Pourteous on the night she died, and said the cufflink was his.
A forensic orthodontist also matched Boden’s teeth with bite marks on the victim, the first time such evidence had been allowed in a Canadian trial to identify an accused.
Boden later made headlines in 1984 while on a “humanitarian” day pass from the maximum-security Laval Correctional Centre. He escaped from a guard after asking to use the washroom while eating in a Montreal hotel.
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