THE CASE OF WAYNE CLIFFORD BODEN

AKA “The Vampire Rapist”

Prepared by: Kurt Vergara

BLOCK 2/DELTA
 The Vampire Rapist

1969 – 1971

Montreal & Calgary

This case arose back in year 1969 to 1971 for killing 3 women in Montreal
and 1 in Calgary, earning the nickname “Vampire Rapist” for biting the
breast of each victim.

Wayne Clifford Boden was a Canadian Serial Killer and rapist active
between 1969 to 1971. His first victim was Shirley Audette, on October 3,
1969, Shirley was found dead at her apartment complex in downtown
Montreal, Quebec. Although she was fully clothed, she had been raped and
strangled, and savage bite marks were found on her breasts. There were
no signs of bloody skin under the fingernails of the victim, which led one
biographer to theorize that she did not struggle against her assailant. One
of Audette's former boyfriends told the police that he believed that she got
involved with a very dominant, attractive man because she was "getting
into something dangerous" but she never mentioned the man's name.
Audette's boyfriend had been at work on the night shift, while Boden, who
lived next door, met Audette outside the building where she sat when she
felt nervous.

The second victim was Marielle Archambault, On 23 November, Marielle

Archambault, a jewelry clerk, left work at closing time with a young man
whom she introduced to her co-workers as "Bill", and remarked that she
seemed happy and entranced by the man. When Archambault did not
report for work the following morning, her employer went to check on her in
her apartment to see if she was ill. Together with her landlady, they
discovered her fully clad body on the couch. The room was tidy, but Boden
had ripped her pantyhose and bra, raped her, and left bite marks on her
breasts.

His third victim was Jean Way, On 17 January 1970, Brian Caulfield, the
boyfriend of Jean Way, 24, came to pick her up for a scheduled date at her
apartment on Lincoln Street in downtown Montreal. When Way did not
answer the door, he decided to come back a little later, but upon returning
found the door unlocked. Caulfield found Way's naked body on the bed,
with her breasts undamaged. Boden was most likely in Way's apartment
when Caulfield was knocking at the door earlier that evening. An autopsy
conducted by Dr. Jean-Paul Valcourt found two small fibers under the
fingernails of her left hand, indicating that contrary to prior belief – that Way
had indeed struggled against Boden. After Way's death, the resulting
publicity from the murders caused a brief mass hysteria in Montreal,
although this disappeared as Boden had fled the city and the murders
stopped.

Eventually, the Montreal killings had died down by 1971. But just when the
city was about to breathe a sigh of relief, terror struck again. This time it
was 2500 miles to the west of Montreal in the city of Calgary. The “Vampire
Rapist” as he was dubbed had now targeted a 33-year-old school teacher
named Elizabeth Anne Porteous his fourth victim. Her sexually assaulted
and strangulated body was found inside her apartment with her breasts
severely mutilated. In this case, the murder scene displayed a clear show
of struggle before the murder and the police were even able to retrieve a
broken cufflink under her body. It was the mention of a blue Mercedes
having a distinct bull-shaped decal in the rear window that her colleagues
had last seen her in that led the police to Wayne Boden. He was arrested
just the next day when a patrolman had visuals of the car near the crime
scene and he was found approaching the blue Mercedes parked outside
the crime scene.

A forensic orthodontist, Gordon Swann, matched the bite marks found on

his last victim with Boden’s teeth. He made a cast out of Boden’s teeth to
show 29 points of similarity between his teeth and the bite marks on
Porteous’ body. The evidence provided by Gordon Swann was sufficient for
the jury of Boden's trial to find him guilty for the murder of Elizabeth
Porteous and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. Boden was the
first murderer to be convicted in North America based on odontological
evidence. Boden then returned to Montreal to face trial, where he
confessed to three murders of Shirley Audette, Marielle Archambault, and
Jean Way, and was sentenced to three additional life terms. Boden was
sent to the Kingston Penitentiary in Kingston, Ontario, where he began
serving his sentence on 16 February 1972.

CONCLUSION

This particular case has just showcased how important forensic science is
or specifically the forensic odontology which is a branch of forensic science
on helping or providing relevant information to solve a crime scene. This
made tons of cases easier to solve which is a huge help to bringing justice
to every cases. Clearly, Forensic science is a great tool in discovering facts
behind every crime scene, facts that cannot simple be discovered by the
intuition but with the use of scientific principles or methodology. Forensic
science scope does not end with dental evidence, but rather just one of its
many uses, Forensic science also involves the analyzation, study and
identification of various bodily fluids which can be retrieve or recovered in a
crime scene, Dactyloscopy which pertains to fingerprints which is one of
the very common pieces of evidence found in a crime scene and has a high
accuracy in identifying the perpetrator for each individual has their own
pattern when it comes to fingerprint. The Forensic science truly helped a lot
in resolving crucial scenarios and truly it is a wonderful discovery.