Newly unsealed courtroom paperwork reveal authorities presume that Steven Laurette killed a 14-year-old Bathurst woman practically 4 years earlier.
Madison Roy-Boudreau went away May 11, 2021, within the northeastern New Brunswick metropolis. Police state she is assumed useless. Her physique hasn’t been positioned.
The unsealed paperwork state authorities assume the 45-year-old male from South Tetagouche, west of Bathurst, was together with her when she was final seen to life. No charges have truly been laid. The claims he eradicated her has truly not been evaluated in courtroom.
Bathurst’s authorities principal known as Laurette all through a press convention concerning the search for Roy-Boudreau, referencing his apprehension on a price of breaking a courtroom drawback, but authorities have truly not brazenly known as him because the suspect in her loss and fatality.
The recordsdata element the authorities idea that Laurette, presently providing a jail sentence for sexual offense, eradicated her.
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The paperwork cowl 2021 to May 2023 and supply an image of the examination since that issue. They include search warrants carried out early within the examination, listings of factors confiscated, and calls for to allow authorities to protect merchandise that is likely to be proof.
The recordsdata outlined the event of the examination, from one concerning whether or not Laurette went in opposition to a courtroom drawback to a much more main claims.
“Throughout the investigation, the seriousness of the matter evolved from a failure to comply with an undertaking given to a judge, to the offences of taking without lawful authority an unmarried person under the age of sixteen and at this time, the first degree murder of Madison Roy Boudreau,” RCMPCpl Eric Dupuis, the lead detective, claimed in a May 2023 sworn assertion.
No physique assists describe ‘sluggish progression,’ policeman states
Dupuis specified authorities confiscated “a large quantity of exhibits,” with some despatched out for screening and others anticipated to be evaluated. Dupuis specified the authorities supposed to take care of belongings of the merchandise which may find yourself being proof in courtroom.
“I believe that since Madison Roy Boudreau’s body has not been recovered [it] adds a significant layer of complexity to the investigation that explains in great part the slow progress of the current investigation,” Dupuis composed within the 2023 sworn assertion.
Radio-Canada litigated in 2023 requesting for the recordsdata to be unsealed. Court of King’s Bench Justice Zo ël Dionne these days unsealed the paperwork. Portions of the recordsdata are handed out.
Laurette objected in courtroom to the paperwork being unsealed and to authorities sustaining merchandise gathered all through searches.
Laurette is providing a seven-year jail sentence for sexually attacking a 14-year-old woman, that was not Roy-Boudreau, in between December 2018 and March 2019.
As part of the courtroom purposes to protect proof collected after implementing search warrants, authorities testimonies from Dupuis submitted in courtroom from Dupuis element the onset of the Roy-Boudreau examination by the Bathurst Police Force.
Steven Laurette leaving the Bathurst courtroom home. (Radio-Canada)
The RCMP took the lead on the investigation in 2022 based mostly upon the concept Roy-Boudreau remained in Middle River, southwest of Bathurst and in RCMP territory, after she was final seen. What led to that concept has truly not been clarified.
Dupuis composed that Roy-Boudreau’s daddy Jason Boudreau reported her lacking out on at 11:18 p.m. on May 11, 2021, after she missed out on establishment and actually didn’t get again.
Police initially claimed the woman with brownish hair was final seen that day round 7:30 a.m. when she left her residence to move to her close-by establishment bus give up, which was near Grange Avenue and Chaleur Street.
Later, Dupuis composed in his sworn assertion, authorities established she was final seen to life that early morning voluntarily getting into a 2007 gray Ford Ranger car pushed by Steven Laurette, that was the one resident.
The paperwork state Roy-Boudreau was final seen to life getting into a car pushed by Laurette the early morning she went away. (Bathurst Police Force)
About 3 hours after Roy-Boudreau was final seen, authorities declare within the testimonies that Laurette strolled proper right into a Giant Tiger store utilizing brownish footwear. He bought blue footwear, and minutes afterward, the paperwork state, he was seen utilizing blue footwear.
Laurette was below court-imposed issues when Roy-Boudreau went away.
The recordsdata state Laurette was detained May 13, 2021, for breaking amongst these issues. He was billed the adhering to day, although that price was afterward taken out.
A search warrant supplied May 14, 2021, permitted Bathurst authorities authority to browse the car Laurette was driving the early morning Roy-Boudreau went away.
The paperwork reveal authorities achieved a variety of searches in 2021 of a gray Ford Ranger car confiscated as part of the examination proper into Roy-Boudreau’s loss. (Bathurst Police Force)
The recordsdata state authorities have been in search of Roy-Boudreau’s private belongings, garments fibers, bodily supplies and finger prints.
The paperwork state the search outcomes web page in authorities gathering a swab of doable blood on the visitor seat cowl and hair from the visitor seat. The recordsdata don’t state if blood was validated.
The paperwork specify a variety of merchandise have truly been despatched out, or would definitely be despatched out, to a laboratory for screening. The outcomes should not defined within the recordsdata.The paperwork present authorities achieved a variety of searches of the car over the adhering to months because the examination developed proper into amongst a supposed homicide.
One warrant supplied in 2021 connects to a factor confiscated in June that 12 months that the document states would possibly present proof concerning the cost of the kidnapping and declared homicide. The info concerning what the product is and the place it lay are handed out within the unsealed recordsdata.
Police achieved a group of searches in places round Bathurst after Roy-Boudreau went away.
Police search Middle River location
On Aug 9, 2021, authorities began searching in Middle River, a backwoods that’s roughly 9 kilometres the place Roy-Boudreau was final seen to life.
“These searches have led to obtaining additional evidence, which are currently being processed,” St éphane Roy, that was the Bathurst authorities principal, claimed in a video clip declarationAug 11, 2021.
That declaration launched that Roy-Boudreau’s loss was regarded a homicide. Police have truly not claimed what led to that call.
Roy claimed the stress had a suspect. However, they actually didn’t identify Laurette as that suspect.
In the unsealed recordsdata, the language utilized modifications to authorities affirming Laurette totally commited first-degree homicide, a homicide that’s supposed and calculated.
Members of the RCMP undersea therapeutic group revealed all through a search of a river in 2021 close to Bathurst in regards to the lack of Roy-Boudreau (Radio-Canada)
In the times after Roy’s assertion, authorities bought another warrant to browse the Ford Ranger car, the courtroom paperwork reveal.
The recordsdata state authorities gathered a prolonged guidelines of merchandise like medical masks, espresso, a great deal of cigarette butts, units, a prolonged brownish hair, and a snowbrush with purple discolorations. There’s no data within the paperwork concerning what created the discolorations.
The paperwork state the car was afterward gone again to its proprietor, Laurette’s daddy. The recordsdata don’t suggest his daddy remained in any kind of methodology related to the supposed felony actions.
Police have truly remained to browse the Middle River location for a few years. RCMPCpl Hans Ouellette has truly claimed completely nothing was positioned all through a search in October.
RCMP actually didn’t provide a gathering for this story. Ouellette claimed in a declaration that no apprehensions have truly been made or charges stocked hyperlink with Roy-Boudreau’s fatality. He claimed authorities are remaining to browse and get concepts from most of the people.
“Any detail, even if it seems small, could assist with furthering this investigation and bringing answers to Madison’s family and her community,” Ouellette claimed.
