Conviction, Imprisonment, and Death
Boden returned to Montreal to face trial, where he confessed to three of the related murders, but denied involvement in the death of Norma Vaillancourt, a 21-year-old student killed on 23 July 1968. Boden had been suspected in that homicide as well, but, in 1994, Raymond Sauve was convicted of the crime and sentenced to ten years in prison.
Boden was sentenced to three additional life terms and he was sent to the Kingston Penitentiary, where he began serving his sentence on 16 February 1972.
In 1977, with Boden five years into his life sentence, American Express granted him a credit card, which he used while out on a day pass from Laval prison. He escaped and was recaptured 36 hours later while eating lunch in a restaurant in the Mount Royal Hotel in downtown Montreal. Three prison guards were disciplined and American Express conducted an internal investigation to find out how a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder managed to get a credit card.
Boden died from skin cancer at Kingston General Hospital on 27 March 2006 after being confined in the hospital for six weeks.
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