Jeffrey Mailhot was a Woonsocket, Rhode Island, man who confessed to killing three women from his own city and pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and to two assault offenses. The women were Audrey Harris, Christine Dumont and Stacie Goulet. Of the three women, only Stacie Goulet was found and identified.
Mailhot lived in Woonsocket and was described by police as a local man. When an Associated Press reporter wrote about the case after Stacie Goulet's funeral, Mailhot was 33. Police said he had no criminal record and had held a steady job. His date of birth and early life are not on record.
Audrey Harris vanished on February 9, 2003. That day, according to the Associated Press, she had told her mother by telephone that she would come to visit her. She did not arrive. In 2023 the Valley Breeze reported that two of the women Mailhot confessed to killing had not been found.
Christine Dumont was last seen on April 23, getting out of a friend's car, the Associated Press reported. NBC 10 (WJAR) later reported that she was murdered in 2004 and that Mailhot pleaded guilty to killing her. Like Audrey Harris, she was presumed by police to have been killed, but her remains had not been identified when the AP wrote about the case after Stacie Goulet's funeral.
Stacie Goulet was 24. She was born in Woonsocket and had worked as a cashier at several businesses. She was the mother of two young children.
She was last seen on July 3, shortly after a fireworks display in a city park. More than three weeks after she disappeared, police found human remains in Johnston, Rhode Island, and the state medical examiner identified them as hers. She was the only one of the three women whose remains were identified.
About 100 relatives and friends attended her funeral service at a funeral home, a Tuesday service described by the Associated Press. Her immediate family and close friends sat in a separate room, out of view of reporters. The only speaker was the Rev. Don Parker, interim pastor of St. James Episcopal Church in Woonsocket, who called her a good daughter and a good mother. "If asked, I'm sure Stacie would have said she would have liked to live for another 75, or 80, years," he said. He told the mourners, "God will wipe away every tear from her eyes." Her parents left with the children and did not speak to reporters. She was buried in a cemetery in Bellingham, Massachusetts, just across the state line.
Mailhot was arrested on the steps of his home in Woonsocket, the Valley Breeze reported in 2023. Later that day, the paper said, he confessed to Woonsocket police that he had killed three women. Police told the Associated Press that he lured the women to his home and killed them. The AP reported that he was held at the state prison while a grand jury considered the charges against him.
Mailhot pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, assault with intent to commit murder and felony assault, according to the Valley Breeze. WJAR reported in January 2008 that he had pleaded guilty to killing Christine Dumont and was serving a life sentence. The date of the plea, the number of counts and the terms imposed on each have not been reported.
In December 2023 the Valley Breeze reported that Mailhot was held in a maximum-security cell in Cranston and that he would be eligible for parole in 2047.
The remains of Audrey Harris and Christine Dumont were not reported found. Mailhot's plea covered first-degree murder, but it has never been reported count by count, so how many murder counts he admitted, and which events the assault counts concerned, is not on record. The identities of the people the assault counts concerned were not reported.
February 9, 2003: Audrey Harris vanishes after telling her mother she would visit that day.
April 23 (year not given in the report): Christine Dumont is last seen getting out of a friend's car; WJAR later reports that she was killed in 2004.
July 3: Stacie Goulet is last seen after a fireworks display in a Woonsocket park.
More than three weeks later: human remains found in Johnston are identified by the state medical examiner as Stacie Goulet's.
Mailhot is arrested at his Woonsocket home and confesses the same day to killing three women, according to the Valley Breeze.
He is held at the state prison while a grand jury considers the charges.
He pleads guilty to first-degree murder, assault with intent to commit murder and felony assault.
January 2008: WJAR reports that he is serving a life sentence.
December 2023: the Valley Breeze reports him held in a maximum-security cell in Cranston and eligible for parole in 2047.