WAYNE CLIFFORD BODEN - THE VAMPIRE RAPIST

Article BY Aaron Kirkland

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Wayne Clifford Boden was born in 1948. Not much is known about his life before 1969 when he committed his first murder, other than that he was a male model before he was a salesman. Boden is a killer/rapist from Dundas, Ontario, Canada. He ran his rape/murder spree in Montreal, Quebec, Canada from 1969-1971. He was dubbed “The Vampire Rapist” because he bit the breasts on three of four of his victims. Boden actually helped Canada and USA learn more about Forensic Dentistry and he was the first person convicted in North America due to this research.

 

SHIRLEY AUDETTE: VICTIM #1

Shirley Audette was Boden’s first victim. She was wearing red wine coloured flared pants, turtleneck, and a brown leatherette vest when they found her out back of her Dorchester Boulevard apartment complex. She was found raped and strangled, with bite marks on her breasts. Strangely enough she had no skin evidence underneath her nails which some speculated that she was willing to the rough sex.

Shirley Audette was 20 years old, 5’2” and 135 lbs. At the time of her death Boden lived in the apartment complex right beside hers. Shirley was living with her friend, Kenneth Ehlert. Kenneth was working a night shift the night of the murder, which would cause Shirley to become nervous and she would have great feelings of loneliness. Shirley would usually call Kenneth at work and sit outside where she felt mildly comfortable. Friday, October 3, 1969, it was 2am and Shirley was sitting out front in one of her nervous fits, and that is where she met Boden for the first time. She called Kenneth at 3am to tell him she had met someone and that was the last time anyone heard from her. Kenneth called her back at 5am and got no answer. They then found her body; she was 5 weeks pregnant at the time.

 

MARIELLE ARCHAMBAULT: VICTIM #2

Boden’s second victim was Marielle Archambault. Marielle was 20, 5’5, and weighed 105 lbs. She was originally from Joliette, Quebec, and had moved to an apartment complex on Ontario Street. She worked at the Charbonneau Jewelry Boutique. One night at a local nightclub she met William Boden, she told friends later that she had been entranced by a man she met. She was picked up from work at the end of the day and introduced her new man as “Bill”.  She met the same fate as Shirley Audette.

She was found dead in her apartment at 1:45 pm on Wednesday, November 26, 1969. Marielle did not come in to work the following day so her boss tried calling her, when there was no response he went to her apartment to see if she was ok.

When her boss arrived at her apartment he got the landlady to open the door and that is when they discovered her deceased.

She was wearing brown pants and a green shirt with three buttons missing. Her bra and pantyhose had been torn and she was raped and strangled, and bite marks were found on her breasts. The room she was found in appeared to be clean and nothing disturbed. There were signs that she had put up a struggle but not enough to identify anyone. The police did find a crumpled, discarded photo which they had released to the public to see if they could get a hit on the person; it ended up not being anything but a photo of Marielle Archambault’s deceased father. This murder happened only 5 weeks after Boden killed his first victim.

 

JEAN WAY: VICTIM #3

Jean Way was an attractive young woman. She was 24, 4’11” and weighed 110 lbs. She lived at Lincoln Street in Montreal, and she was dating a man by the name of Brian F. Caulfield, who she had only been seeing for a month.

Friday, January 16, 1970 Jean and Brian had been out at the local clubs until 3:15 am, Brian stayed for four hours and then left. Brian then called Jean on Saturday, January 17, 1970 around 5:30 pm to make plans to go out around 8pm. Brian showed up at Jean’s apartment around 8:15 pm and knocked on the door. There was no answer so he went to go grab a drink at the Cock’N’Bull, although Jean was being attacked at that point…Brian had no idea what was even going on. Off to the bar Brian went. He had a couple drinks and went back to Jean’s apartment around 9:30 pm. Brian went right into Jean’s apartment to check on her, saw what he thought was her sleeping in her bed except he couldn’t wake her. Her body wasn’t even cold yet and then he realized there was a gray-blue coloured wool belt wrapped around her neck. She was wearing nothing but a green bedspread with her feet being the only thing exposed when Brian found her.

Upon investigation, the cops revealed that she had no bite marks on her and the police also found fibers in her hand which they then determined there was a definite struggle with the person that attacked her. Police believe that Jean knew Boden enough that he would be allowed to enter her apartment. Boden killed Jean 8 weeks after he killed Marielle Archambault.

Wayne then left for Calgary.

 

ELIZABETH ANNE PORTEOUS: VICTIM #4

Elizabeth Anne Porteous was last seen by coworkers stopped at a red light sitting in a blue Mercedes on the night of Monday, May 17, 1971.

Tuesday, May 18, 1971...Elizabeth didn’t show up for work that morning, she was a year old high school teacher in Calgary.

Elizabeth’s apartment manager was called and asked to check on her. They discovered her on her bedroom floor, dead. She like the victims before her were raped, strangled and this time Boden bit her breasts. Her apartment showed that she had struggled with whoever had attacked her and when they were moving her body they realized there was a broken cufflink beneath her.

The two colleagues who told police that they say her the night before in the Blue Mercedes also mentioned that the car had a distinctive bull shaped advertising decal in the rear window. One of Elizabeth’s friends told police that she was dating a flashy dresser, with short, well kept hair, and that his name was “Bill”.

Wednesday, May 19, 1971 Wayne Clifford Boden was arrested after some patrolmen saw the Blue Mercedes parked close the crime scene, with Boden attempting to get into the car. Boden had told the detectives that he had moved to Calgary from Montreal a year prior to the crime, and that he was dating Elizabeth, and that the cufflink they had found was his. Although he claimed that Elizabeth was alive and well when he left the night she was murdered.

The police department was holding Boden under the suspicion that he killed Elizabeth Porteous, so they decided to investigate the bite marks on Elizabeth’s breasts.

 

THE FINAL NAIL IN THE COFFIN OF THE VAMPIRE RAPIST

Gordon Swann, an orthodontist in Calgary, was approached by authorities to try and see if Boden could be identified as the killer through the bite marks on Elizabeth’s breasts. Canada at that time had nothing in its literature about Forensic Dentistry so Gordon Swann decided to write to the F.B.I. for some info on the topic. Swann received a letter from J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the F.B.I at that time, telling Swann to get ahold of a man in England who had dealt with between 20 and 30 cases on the same issue.

Gordon Swann, armed with a cast of Wayne Boden’s teeth made the discovery that showed 29 points of similarities to the bite marks on Elizabeth Porteous’s breasts. The evidence was strong enough to convince a jury that Wayne Clifford Boden was guilty of murdering Elizabeth Porteous. The judge then sentenced Boden to life in prison.

Wayne Clifford Boden was transferred to Montreal where he admitted to the murders of the other three victims, and denied any involvement to another murder he was suspect to, which was solved in 1994 when another man confessed to that murder.

Boden was given three more life sentences for the other murders and sent to Kingston Penitentiary where on Wednesday, February 16, 1972 he started his life behind bars.

Five years into Boden’s jail term, by now it was 1977, he was somehow granted a credit card through American Express. No one really understands how anyone was able to give a prisoner a credit card, but it happened. He took advantage of the card on a day pass he got somehow through Laval Prison and managed to escape for 36 hours. When he was finally picked up he was eating lunch in The Mount Royal Hotel Restaurant in Montreal. Three guards were punished and American Express investigated into how they managed to give a credit card to a life sentence serving prisoner.

Friday, February 17, 2006, Boden was admitted to Kingston Regional Hospital where he was being treated for his skin cancer.

Monday, March 27, 2006 Wayne Clifford Boden had succumbed to his illness and was pronounced dead. The Vampire was now dead.

So because of Wayne Clifford Boden North America has a better knowledge of Forensic Dentistry.