Killed For Being In The Way: The Murder of Karissa Boudreau

On January 27th 2008 at around 8:35 pm, in Bridgwater, a town in Canada, the Police Department received a report of a missing 12-year-old girl, Karissa Boudreau. The report came in from her mother Penny Boudreau. Penny claimed that she had left her daughter sat in the car in the supermarket’s shopping centre, as she went inside to shop for groceries. On Penny’s return to the vehicle, Karissa was no longer inside. As the extensive investigation and search for Karissa went underway, Penny made a tearful plea to the media for her daughter to return, as well as asking for assistance from the community in finding her. The town rallied together in an attempt to find Karissa and to return her home safely, but sadly nearly two weeks later on the 9th of February 2008, Karissa Bourdreau’s was found buried in the snow. The police searched tirelessly for Karissa’s murder, but after reaching multiple dead ends, they decided to launch an undercover operation, in order to trick their prime suspect into telling the truth. And the suspect did just that. In a recorded confession, the suspect describe in grim detail what had happened to Karissa Boudreau that day, and the motive behind why she had to die….