10.27.2017 - By Bonnie Lee
Twelve-year-old Karissa Boudreau was reported missing from Bridgewater on January 27, 2008. Her body was found on the bank of the LaHave River two weeks later. Following a four-month investigation, police charged the girl's mother, 34-year-old Penny Boudreau, with first-degree murder.
On January 30, 2009, Boudreau pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 20 years. Investigators learned she strangled her daughter because she believed the child was in the way of her relationship with her boyfriend.
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Main information sources in episode :
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/How-Karissa-died38721547.html
http://murderpedia.org/female.B/b/boudreau-penny.htm
https://en.wiki
pedia.org/wiki/Penny_Boudreau
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/10/parents-kill-children-fbi-data/15280259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174580/
http://www.ctvnews.ca/father-of-murdered-n-s-girl-eager-for-trial-1.321520
https://decisions.courts.ns.ca/nsc/nssc/en/item/14227/index.do?r=AAAAAQAOcGVubnkgYm91ZHJlYXUB
https://hellbeasts.com/penny-boudreau/
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/01/30/girl_cried_mommy_dont_before_being_strangled.html
https://alchetron.com/Penny-Boudreau-190065-W
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filicide
Video clip sources in episode:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BML_Ynov0AA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxwLD_OjgY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvtQaWup6bY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwUw5Ub43AE&t=917s