Newly unsealed court documents reveal authorities presume that Steven Laurette killed a 14-year-old Bathurst lady nearly 4 years earlier.
Madison Roy-Boudreau went away May 11, 2021, in the northeastern New Brunswick city. Police state she is assumed dead. Her body hasn’t been located.
The unsealed documents state authorities think the 45-year-old male from South Tetagouche, west of Bathurst, was with her when she was last seen to life. No fees have actually been laid. The claims he eliminated her has actually not been evaluated in court.
Bathurst’s authorities principal called Laurette throughout a press conference regarding the look for Roy-Boudreau, referencing his apprehension on a fee of breaking a court problem, yet authorities have actually not openly called him as the suspect in her loss and fatality.
The files detail the authorities concept that Laurette, presently offering a jail sentence for sexual offense, eliminated her.
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The documents cover 2021 to May 2023 and provide a picture of the examination since that factor. They contain search warrants performed early in the examination, listings of points confiscated, and demands to permit authorities to preserve products that might be proof.
The files outlined the development of the examination, from one regarding whether Laurette went against a court problem to a far more major 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 statement.
No body assists describe ‘sluggish progression,’ policeman states
Dupuis specified authorities confiscated “a large quantity of exhibits,” with some sent out for screening and others anticipated to be evaluated. Dupuis specified the authorities intended to maintain belongings of the products that might end up being proof in court.
“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 in the 2023 sworn statement.
Radio-Canada litigated in 2023 requesting for the files to be unsealed. Court of King’s Bench Justice Zo ël Dionne lately unsealed the documents. Portions of the files are passed out.
Laurette objected in court to the documents being unsealed and to authorities maintaining products gathered throughout searches.
Laurette is offering a seven-year jail sentence for sexually attacking a 14-year-old lady, that was not Roy-Boudreau, in between December 2018 and March 2019.
As component of the court applications to preserve proof collected after implementing search warrants, authorities testimonies from Dupuis submitted in court from Dupuis detail the onset of the Roy-Boudreau examination by the Bathurst Police Force.
Steven Laurette leaving the Bathurst court house. (Radio-Canada)
The RCMP took the lead on the investigation in 2022 based upon the idea Roy-Boudreau remained in Middle River, southwest of Bathurst and in RCMP territory, after she was last seen. What brought about that idea has actually not been clarified.
Dupuis composed that Roy-Boudreau’s daddy Jason Boudreau reported her missing out on at 11:18 p.m. on May 11, 2021, after she missed out on institution and really did not get back.
Police originally claimed the lady with brownish hair was last seen that day around 7:30 a.m. when she left her home to head to her close-by institution bus quit, which was close to Grange Avenue and Chaleur Street.
Later, Dupuis composed in his sworn statement, authorities established she was last seen to life that early morning voluntarily entering a 2007 grey Ford Ranger vehicle driven by Steven Laurette, that was the single resident.
The documents state Roy-Boudreau was last seen to life entering a vehicle driven by Laurette the early morning she went away. (Bathurst Police Force)
About 3 hours after Roy-Boudreau was last seen, authorities declare in the testimonies that Laurette strolled right into a Giant Tiger shop using brownish footwear. He purchased blue footwear, and mins later on, the documents state, he was seen using blue footwear.
Laurette was under court-imposed problems when Roy-Boudreau went away.
The files state Laurette was detained May 13, 2021, for breaking among those problems. He was billed the adhering to day, though that cost was later on taken out.
A search warrant provided May 14, 2021, approved Bathurst authorities authority to browse the vehicle Laurette was driving the early morning Roy-Boudreau went away.
The documents reveal authorities accomplished a number of searches in 2021 of a grey Ford Ranger vehicle confiscated as component of the examination right into Roy-Boudreau’s loss. (Bathurst Police Force)
The files state authorities were looking for Roy-Boudreau’s personal belongings, clothes fibers, physical materials and finger prints.
The documents state the search results page in authorities gathering a swab of possible blood on the guest seat cover and hair from the guest seat. The files do not state if blood was validated.
The documents specify a number of products have actually been sent out, or would certainly be sent out, to a laboratory for screening. The outcomes are not explained in the files.The documents show authorities accomplished a number of searches of the vehicle over the adhering to months as the examination developed right into among a supposed murder.
One warrant provided in 2021 connects to a thing confiscated in June that year that the record states might provide proof regarding the payment of the kidnapping and declared murder. The information regarding what the product is and where it lay are passed out in the unsealed files.
Police accomplished a collection of searches in locations around Bathurst after Roy-Boudreau went away.
Police search Middle River location
On Aug 9, 2021, authorities started browsing in Middle River, a backwoods that’s approximately 9 kilometres where Roy-Boudreau was last 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 introduced that Roy-Boudreau’s loss was regarded a murder. Police have actually not claimed what brought about that decision.
Roy claimed the pressure had a suspect. However, they really did not name Laurette as that suspect.
In the unsealed files, the language utilized changes to authorities affirming Laurette fully commited first-degree murder, a murder that’s intended and calculated.
Members of the RCMP undersea healing group revealed throughout a search of a river in 2021 near Bathurst about the loss of Roy-Boudreau (Radio-Canada)
In the days after Roy’s statement, authorities got one more warrant to browse the Ford Ranger vehicle, the court documents reveal.
The files state authorities gathered a lengthy checklist of products like clinical masks, coffee, loads of cigarette butts, devices, a lengthy brownish hair, and a snowbrush with red discolorations. There’s no info in the documents regarding what created the discolorations.
The documents state the vehicle was later on gone back to its proprietor, Laurette’s daddy. The files do not recommend his daddy remained in any type of method associated with the supposed criminal activities.
Police have actually remained to browse the Middle River location for many years. RCMPCpl Hans Ouellette has actually claimed absolutely nothing was located throughout a search in October.
RCMP really did not supply a meeting for this tale. Ouellette claimed in a declaration that no apprehensions have actually been made or fees stocked link with Roy-Boudreau’s fatality. He claimed authorities are remaining to browse and get ideas from the general public.
“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.
