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Bloody clues found all over this small Canadian town - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: In January of 1988, the clerk of a sporting goods
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  Speaker 1: store in a small town in Canada looked up right
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  Speaker 1: as a man walked into a shop. Now, it was
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  Speaker 1: below freezing outside, but this man wasn't wearing a coat.
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  Speaker 2: He was just wearing sneakers, ripped pants, and a thin
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  Speaker 2: plastic rain poncho.
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  Speaker 1: This man quickly walked down the aisle and grabbed a
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  Speaker 1: pair of ski pants, and then he walked up, he
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  Speaker 1: paid for the pants in cash, and then very quickly
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  Speaker 1: hurried out of the store. But after this sort of
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  Speaker 1: strangely dressed man left... the clerk turned on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: and he heard a breaking news report about a murder
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  Speaker 1: right up the road. But before we get into today's story,
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the night of January 11th, 1988,
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  Speaker 1: A 62-year-old man named Wilfred Goudreau ate a bowl of
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  Speaker 1: hot soup at his kitchen table in Capus Casing, which
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  Speaker 1: was a tiny lumber town in northern Ontario, Canada. His
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  Speaker 1: 53-year-old girlfriend, Agathe Bruchot, was sitting across from him, and
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  Speaker 1: she was visibly shivering because it was freezing cold inside
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  Speaker 1: of their house. Now, Wilfred knew Agathe probably wanted him
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  Speaker 1: to turn up the heat, but he absolutely was not
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  Speaker 1: going to do that because, as it was, their electric
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  Speaker 1: bill was already too high. So Wilfred really hated spending money,
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  Speaker 1: but not because he didn't have any. Back when he
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, his family had been really, really poor,
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  Speaker 1: and so he'd picked up some really frugal habits that
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  Speaker 1: had just sort of stuck with him. So even now
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  Speaker 1: that he had a steady income as a mechanic and
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  Speaker 1: pretty comfortable savings, he still always tried to spend as
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  Speaker 1: little as possible. Plus, he wanted to retire soon, and
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  Speaker 1: he was supporting a god, too. So, as he sat
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  Speaker 1: there watching Agat continue to shiver, clearly trying to signal
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  Speaker 1: to him, like, come on, turn up the heat, Wilfred
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  Speaker 1: finally did get up, but not to turn up the heat. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he walked over to the living room, and he grabbed
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  Speaker 1: a shawl off the couch, and he brought it back,
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  Speaker 1: and he handed it to Agat. Then, as Agat kind
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  Speaker 1: of scowled at him, Wilfred just sat back down and
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  Speaker 1: continued eating his soup. Early the next morning, around 7.15 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: Wilfred woke up to an empty bed and the familiar
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  Speaker 1: sound of Agat bustling around in the kitchen, making breakfast
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  Speaker 1: and packing his lunch for work. And then a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes later, he felt the blanket shift as Agat crawled
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  Speaker 1: back into bed beside him. So Wilfred and Agat had
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  Speaker 1: been together about 12 years, and these days they lived
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  Speaker 1: a pretty quiet life. Which was pretty easy to do
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  Speaker 1: in Kappas Kasing, which was the kind of place where
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  Speaker 1: really nothing ever happened. And it's also where pretty much
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  Speaker 1: everybody knew everyone and where people didn't even bother locking
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  Speaker 1: their doors at night. And that suited Wilfred just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Because at one point, his life had been anything but quiet.
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  Speaker 1: His relationship with a god had actually begun with a huge,
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  Speaker 1: dramatic scandal. That scandal had cost Wilfred his marriage, most
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  Speaker 1: of his family, and a lot of his self-respect. So
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  Speaker 1: at this point, a simple life with a got was
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted. Now, Wilfred lay in his bed
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  Speaker 1: just for a bit longer, listening to the wind howl
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  Speaker 1: outside and, you know, feeling a got next to him.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually he got up and he headed down the
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  Speaker 1: hallway in just his underwear. The sun was not up yet,
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  Speaker 1: so the house was completely dark. But he made his
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  Speaker 1: way to the bathroom by memory. And when he got there,
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  Speaker 1: he flipped on the light. He closed the door and
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  Speaker 1: then walked over to the sink and he turned on
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  Speaker 1: the tap. and he had just begun shaving when he
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  Speaker 1: heard the door behind him creak open. Now, Wilfred instinctively
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  Speaker 1: figured it was Agat coming in to use the bathroom.
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  Speaker 1: Then he turned around and saw who was actually standing
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  Speaker 1: in the doorway. At the same time this was happening
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom, Wilfred and Agat's neighbor, Suzanne Grable, was
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  Speaker 1: in her kitchen next door when she heard these loud
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  Speaker 1: crashes and shouting coming from Agat and Wilfred's house. She
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  Speaker 1: ran to the window to look out, but it was
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  Speaker 1: too dark to see anything. It sounded like Agathe was
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  Speaker 1: screaming Wilfred's name over and over again. And so assuming
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  Speaker 1: there had to be some sort of emergency, Suzanne grabbed
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  Speaker 1: her coat and just ran outside to see what was
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  Speaker 1: going on. But she'd only gone a few steps out
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  Speaker 1: her front door when she looked over and saw the
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  Speaker 1: door to Wilfred and Agathe's house swing open and a
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  Speaker 1: man stepped out. And this man was definitely not Wilfred.
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  Speaker 1: He was short and stocky and looked like he was
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  Speaker 1: maybe in his early 30s. And as he stepped down
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  Speaker 1: off the stoop, he turned and made eye contact with Suzanne,
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  Speaker 1: who immediately froze. Her heart was racing out of control,
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  Speaker 1: and she knew she was now in danger. But she
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  Speaker 1: didn't panic. She just turned and walked over to her car.
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  Speaker 1: She got in and then locked the doors. And then
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  Speaker 1: she just sat there and waited. Now, the whole time
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  Speaker 1: that she did that, that she was just sitting in
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  Speaker 1: her car waiting... This short, stocky, mid-30-something man actually just
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  Speaker 1: continued to stand there in front of Wilfred and Agathe's house,
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  Speaker 1: and he was just staring at her in the car.
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  Speaker 1: But after a little while, he turned and walked over
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  Speaker 1: to the curb, and he climbed into a blue pickup truck,
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  Speaker 1: and he drove off without even turning on his headlights.
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  Speaker 1: The second he was gone, Suzanne rushed out of her
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  Speaker 1: car and ran back into her own house. And once
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  Speaker 1: she was inside, she immediately grabbed her home phone and
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  Speaker 1: And she tried calling Wilfred and Agat's number for their
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  Speaker 1: house next door.
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  Speaker 2: But the line just kept on ringing. Nobody answered.
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  Speaker 1: So she eventually hung up. And then she called the police.
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  Speaker 1: A dispatcher picked up her call. And just as Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: began describing what was going on, Suzanne, at her house,
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  Speaker 1: she heard this loud banging coming from her front door. Immediately,
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne thought that the short, stocky guy who drove off
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  Speaker 1: had come back for her. And so she was terrified.
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  Speaker 1: But then she heard a got calling her name from outside.
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  Speaker 1: So clearly it was her banging on the door. And
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  Speaker 1: so Suzanne, she drops the phone. She runs over to
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  Speaker 1: the door, opens it up. And there was a got
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  Speaker 1: who had no coat on. And she looked equally terrified here.
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  Speaker 1: Suzanne grabbed a got. She pulled her inside. She slammed
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  Speaker 1: the door, locked it behind her. And then she looked
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  Speaker 1: at a got like, what's going on here? And a got,
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  Speaker 1: she's like, she's out of breath. She's clearly panicking here.
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  Speaker 1: But eventually she calms down and she looks at Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: and she says.
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  Speaker 2: Something terrible has happened to Wilfred.
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  Speaker 1: About 20 minutes later, a constable with the Ontario Provincial
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  Speaker 1: Police drew his revolver and pushed open the front door
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  Speaker 1: of Wilfred and Agathe's house. He was here because the
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  Speaker 1: police had just been told that a violent assault had
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  Speaker 1: just apparently occurred in this house.
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  Speaker 2: And so this officer was here to check it out.
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  Speaker 1: And so this officer, as soon as the door was open,
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  Speaker 1: he shouted inside that if anybody was in there to
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  Speaker 1: come out with their hands up.
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  Speaker 2: And then when there was no response... He stepped through
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  Speaker 2: the doorway.
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  Speaker 1: As the officer went room by room, making sure nobody
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  Speaker 1: was in the house, he noticed that it was very
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  Speaker 1: quiet and very clean, like the house was immaculate and.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing was out of place.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't look like anything had even happened in here.
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  Speaker 2: Until he got to the bathroom. When he looked in there,
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  Speaker 2: all he saw was blood. It was on the walls,
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  Speaker 2: it was on the floor, it was everywhere, on the toothbrushes,
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  Speaker 2: the toilet paper, I mean the whole room.
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  Speaker 1: Was splattered in blood. But most of the blood had
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  Speaker 1: pooled around the body of a man who was lying
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  Speaker 1: on the bathroom floor. The man was just wearing underwear,
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  Speaker 1: and he was lying on his back, and there was
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  Speaker 1: shaving cream on half of his face. And he was
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  Speaker 1: covered in at least a dozen stab wounds on his neck,
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  Speaker 1: on his chest, and on his arms. Now, the constable
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  Speaker 1: knew there was virtually no chance this man was.
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  Speaker 2: Still alive, but he obviously had to be sure.
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  Speaker 1: So he stepped into the bathroom, he crouched down next
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  Speaker 1: to the body, and he felt for a pulse. But
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't one. The body was still warm, though. So
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  Speaker 1: the constable pulled out his radio, and he called it in.
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  Speaker 1: And he also asked for instructions, because Kappus Kaysing did
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  Speaker 1: not see a lot of homicides, and the constable literally
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  Speaker 1: didn't know what he was supposed to do next.
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  Speaker 1: on January 12, 1988, Detective Wayne Frechette of the Ontario
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  Speaker 1: Provincial Police stepped off a plane at an airstrip near
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  Speaker 1: Cappas Casing, where he'd just been made lead detective on
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  Speaker 1: a murder case. This town was so small that the
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  Speaker 1: local police didn't have anyone who'd worked a homicide before.
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  Speaker 1: So Frechette had been flown in from Toronto to run
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  Speaker 1: this investigation because he did have homicide experience. He'd been
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  Speaker 1: briefed on the flight and already had a good sense
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  Speaker 1: of the case. So Wilfred Goudreau, the victim, was a
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  Speaker 1: 62-year-old mechanic, and he had been stabbed to death in
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  Speaker 1: his bathroom that morning.
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  Speaker 2: And right afterwards, a neighbor had.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently seen this short, stocky Caucasian man in his mid-30s
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  Speaker 1: walk out of Wilfred's house and drive away in a
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  Speaker 1: blue pickup truck. So assuming that man that was seen
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  Speaker 1: leaving the house was the killer, it seemed like he
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  Speaker 1: already had a pretty big head start here because he
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  Speaker 1: had a decent description of the number one suspect, potentially
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  Speaker 1: the killer. He was also confident this had not been
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  Speaker 1: part of a robbery or just some random attack because
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  Speaker 1: the first responders hadn't found any signs of a break-in
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  Speaker 1: or robbery. And the house had been basically spotless aside
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  Speaker 1: from the bathroom where pretty clearly the murder had taken place.
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  Speaker 1: So Frechette, you know, he couldn't possibly know if that
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  Speaker 1: guy who left the house, if that really was the
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  Speaker 1: killer or not. However, there was one person he could
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  Speaker 1: turn to right now who could really help him figure
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  Speaker 1: out if this person could have been involved. Because she'd
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  Speaker 1: actually been inside the house when Wilfred was being murdered
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  Speaker 1: and so very likely killed. at least saw or maybe
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  Speaker 1: even knew that man that was seen exiting the house.
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  Speaker 1: Later that afternoon, Frechette sat in an interview room at
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  Speaker 1: the local police station listening to Wilfred's girlfriend, Agathe, walk
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  Speaker 1: him through her morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now, according to Agathe, she hadn't actually seen the attack.
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  Speaker 1: She hadn't seen the potential killer, like none of it,
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  Speaker 1: because when she heard this commotion in the house, she
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  Speaker 1: had just sort of instinctively jumped into a closet and hid.
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  Speaker 1: And she had stayed there until she heard the sound
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  Speaker 1: of whoever this was leaving and driving off. Now, Frechette
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  Speaker 1: was not totally alarmed by this story. I mean, people
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  Speaker 1: get scared and they protect themselves. But what did stand
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  Speaker 1: out to Frechette as Agathe told him this story was
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  Speaker 1: that she didn't cry once the whole time she was talking.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, she came off as almost weirdly calm. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Frechette knew from experience this could definitely just be, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a product of shock.
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  Speaker 2: But it also could be that she just wasn't that upset.
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  Speaker 1: So at some point, Frechette asked Agathe about her relationship
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  Speaker 1: with Wilfred. And she told him that by and large,
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  Speaker 1: they'd been really happy together. They'd hardly ever argued. And
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  Speaker 1: when they did, it was just about Wilfred being cheap. Because,
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  Speaker 1: as Agathe went on to explain, Wilfred would go to
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  Speaker 1: crazy lengths to save money, even just a few cents,
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  Speaker 1: even though he had plenty of money saved up. She
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  Speaker 1: said Wilfred would even watch the TV with the lights
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  Speaker 1: off just to save money on electricity. He also insisted
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  Speaker 1: on reusing bathwater for the same reason. And then when
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  Speaker 1: he and Agathe traveled, he made them sleep in the
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  Speaker 1: car rather than paying for a hotel. So Frechette, you know,
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  Speaker 1: after listening to this, he felt like he was getting
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  Speaker 1: a picture of a guy in Wilfred who had strong
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  Speaker 1: opinions and really not a lot of flexibility. it did
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  Speaker 1: make Frechette wonder if maybe because of this personality type
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  Speaker 1: that he appeared to have, Wilfred, you know, it's entirely
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  Speaker 1: possible he could have made some enemies along the.
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  Speaker 2: Way in his life.
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  Speaker 1: And when he asked Agathe about that, you know, when
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  Speaker 1: he asked her, you know, did Wilfred have any enemies,
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  Speaker 1: Frechette immediately saw Agathe's expression change. She went from being
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  Speaker 1: sort of weirdly calm to looking almost apprehensive. And she
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  Speaker 1: looked down at the table for a moment and then
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  Speaker 1: back up at Frechette. And then she just said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that she She didn't want to point fingers here, but
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  Speaker 1: there was some history that he needed to know. She
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  Speaker 1: told Frechette that before Wilfred was dating her, Agathe, Wilfred
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  Speaker 1: had actually been married for 20 years to Agathe's own sister,
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  Speaker 1: Rachel Bruchu. Agathe said that she and Wilfred had had
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  Speaker 1: an affair, and when her sister Rachel found out about it,
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  Speaker 1: it became a huge scandal that really tore the whole
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  Speaker 1: family apart. Rachel had divorced Wilfred pretty much right away,
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  Speaker 1: and she was still very angry about it, even now,
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  Speaker 1: 12 years later.
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  Speaker 2: Like, this was a deep, deep cut.
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  Speaker 1: And according to Agathe, Wilfred's son, Paul, had taken the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing really hard, too. And he'd barely spoken to
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  Speaker 1: Wilfred since the divorce, until recently. This past Christmas, Agathe
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  Speaker 1: said Paul had come to Capus Casing for a visit.
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  Speaker 1: It had been a pretty awkward couple of days, but
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  Speaker 1: she said that Paul and Wilfred had actually really bonded
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  Speaker 1: in the end, and Paul seemed to have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: basically forgiven his father. Frechette wrote all this down, but
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  Speaker 1: he wondered how sincere Paul's forgiveness really was. It was
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  Speaker 1: definitely suspicious timing, and on top of that, Paul was
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  Speaker 1: also in his early 30s, which was the exact age
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  Speaker 1: range as the suspected killer, that guy who walked.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the house that was seen by the neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: And so now Frechette really wanted to speak to Paul
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  Speaker 1: and also Wilfred's ex-wife Rachel as soon as possible. But
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  Speaker 1: just as he was wrapping up the interview with Agathe,
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  Speaker 1: an officer poked their head into the room and said
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  Speaker 1: they had just found something that Frechette needed to see
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  Speaker 1: right away. A half hour later, Frechette stood by the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road just a few miles from Wilfred's house,
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  Speaker 1: looking down at a pair of bloody winter boots lying
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  Speaker 1: in the snow. And then behind Frechette, a little ways
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  Speaker 1: up the road, was a team of police officers who
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  Speaker 1: were working over this blue pickup truck that they had
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  Speaker 1: found abandoned behind a paper mill. These two clues, the
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  Speaker 1: boots and the truck, were actually just the latest in
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  Speaker 1: a trail of breadcrumbs that the killer had apparently left behind.
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  Speaker 1: Because all day long, various reports had been coming in
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  Speaker 1: about this mysterious man who matched the killer's description.
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  Speaker 2: Around 8.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: That morning, so about an hour after the murder, this
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  Speaker 1: mystery man had been spotted in downtown Cappas Casing wearing
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  Speaker 1: a rain poncho, ripped pants, and no coat. He'd gone
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  Speaker 1: to a few different stores, buying boots, a jacket, and
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  Speaker 1: ski pants, and he paid for everything in cash. Then,
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  Speaker 1: around noon, a police roadblock had stopped a taxi on
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  Speaker 1: its way out of town. The taxi's passenger, who was
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  Speaker 1: a short, stocky man, apparently in his 30s, had seemed
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  Speaker 1: really jumpy, so the officers had checked his ID and
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  Speaker 1: recorded his name before letting him through. Just then, Frechette's
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  Speaker 1: radio crackled and he answered it, and dispatch told him
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  Speaker 1: that they had just finished running the plates on that
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  Speaker 1: abandoned blue pickup truck, and they had traced it to
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  Speaker 1: a man from Timmins, which is a town about two
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  Speaker 1: hours south.
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  Speaker 2: The man's name was Richard Boucher.
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  Speaker 1: It just so happened that that was the same name
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: as the jumpy taxi passenger who'd been stopped by the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: police roadblock. Two days later, on January 14th, 1988, Detective
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Frechette sat at a desk in the Capus Casing police
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: station reading the file on Richard Boucher, who was currently
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: on the run from police as the number one suspect in.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: The murder of Wilfred Goudreau.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: And Richard's file only made Frechette feel more certain that
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: he was his guy. First of all, Richard was a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Caucasian 33-year-old man, sort of fit the physical description. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: he was also a cocaine dealer with a side hustle
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: of providing strippers to local bars and hotels. And also,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: he'd previously been arrested for drug trafficking. However, there was
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: one glaring problem. And that was that so far, Frechette
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: just could not find any connection between Richard and Wilfred.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Like, if Richard was the killer, why? How?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Like, how in the world could these two guys be connected?
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: The two men lived hours away from each other. They
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: didn't seem to share any friends or business connections or
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: really any mutual people at all. So to Frechette, it
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: sort of left two possibilities. Either they were linked by
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: someone or something that maybe Wilfred had kept secret, or
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: someone else had hired Richard to kill Wilfred. So now,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: while the local police focused on just finding Richard, Frechette
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: was trying to figure out, Who in Wilfred's circle might
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: have wanted Wilfred dead? By this point, Frechette had already
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: questioned Wilfred's ex-wife, Rachel, and she definitely did seem very
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: bitter about the divorce. But she said that she actually
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: really didn't keep up much with Wilfred these days, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: that she couldn't even begin to guess who might have
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: killed him. Because according to her, Wilfred was like the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: most boring man on earth, and she had no idea
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: who would want to do this to him. Frechette thought
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: this was actually kind of an odd thing to say
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: about your ex-husband, who slept with your sister. However, Rachel
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: was not the only person on Frechette's list that had
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a grudge against Wilfred. Because Wilfred's adult son, Paul, had
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: been so mad at Wilfred, he'd basically barely spoken to
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: his father in the past decade. Except for just this
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: past Christmas, when Paul had visited Wilfred and stayed at
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: his house. And that visit had taken place just three
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: weeks before Wilfred was murdered. which struck Frechette as awfully
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: convenient timing for Paul to have had this sudden change
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: of heart. And Paul's visit would have given Paul the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: chance to learn the layout of Wilfred's house. He would
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: have seen Wilfred's routine, how he moved around, and when
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Wilfred was alone. All information a killer would need to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: know before attempting to kill someone. Now, Paul did not
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: live in the area, so Frechette had actually scheduled a
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: call with him for that afternoon to talk all this through.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: And when Frechette glanced at his watch, he actually.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Saw it was time. So he picked up the phone
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and he dialed Paul's number.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: When Paul answered, right away Frechette noticed that his voice
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: was a little bit shaky. And also, pretty much immediately,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Paul said, you know, unprompted, that he very likely didn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: have anything useful to.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Say because he hadn't been close to his dad in years.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: So, Frechette just asked him about his recent visit to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: see his dad this past Christmas. And Paul would confirm that, yes,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: that visit had happened. But he said that despite it
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: being a good visit, you know, for the two of them,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he claimed he couldn't really remember anything that they'd even
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: talked about. Like, it was all just kind of a blur.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Frechette did not believe this for a second. I mean, theoretically,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: this was like a meeting for the ages. This is
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a father and son who've been estranged for over a decade,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and they're having this life-changing meeting where they're going to reconcile.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: And apparently they.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Did, and you don't remember what you spoke about? He
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: just got the feeling that Paul was trying to say
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: as little as possible here, like he was afraid that
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: sharing too much might get him in trouble. Frechette continued
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to question Paul for a bit longer. He asked him
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: about his memory of his father's affair and of his
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: knowledge of his father's finances. Now, Frechette knew from speaking
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to Agathe that Wilfred, despite being incredibly cheap, did have, apparently,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: quite a bit of money saved up. But Frechette wanted
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to know if Paul knew about it. Because if Paul
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: thought his dad had cash that theoretically.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Could go to him in the form of an inheritance.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: well, that was a reason to make amends after all
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: these years, or maybe even reason to commit murder. But
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Paul said he actually just figured his dad was broke,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and always had been, because it just sort of explained
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: why he was so cheap, because he didn't have much money.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: That's at least what Paul thought. And so he said
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't expect his dad to leave him anything. This
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: answer made Frechette wish they were doing this interview in person,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: because over the phone, Frechette couldn't watch Paul's body language
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: as he talked about his father's money. So he couldn't
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: tell if maybe Paul was lying when he said he
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: didn't know that his dad had money. But either way,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Paul clearly was not giving him anything particularly useful at
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: this point.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: And so now Frechette was starting.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: To think that the only person who could tell him
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: if Richard had killed Wilfred and why was Richard himself.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: The police just had to find him first.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Two days later, on the night of January 16th, 1988,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Detective Frechette climbed out of his car in front of
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the Timmins Police Station and hurried up the steps into
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the building. After four long days in Northern Ontario, he
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: was tired of the extreme cold and was just ready
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to go home. But this murder case just kept getting
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: more complicated. Until recently, Frechette had pretty firmly believed that
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his primary suspect, Richard Boucher, had been hired to murder
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Wilfred Goudreau. Wilfred's ex-wife, Rachel, and his adult son, Paul,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: were the top suspects in terms of, you know, people
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: who might have hired a hitman since they both had
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: really good reasons to hate Wilfred. And then also Wilfred's girlfriend, Agathe,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: had been so calm in her interview.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: So she was also on the list as well. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: she was also present at the time of the murder.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But then Frechette had gotten access to Wilfred's bank statements
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and they'd made him reconsider everything. Wilfred did have a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: lot of money saved up, that was true, just like
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Agat had said. But his bank account had been steadily
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: draining over the past few months. His bank statements showed
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: big withdrawals spaced out in regular intervals, and Frechette had
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: no idea where the money had gone. Which made him
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: wonder if Wilfred had been mixed up in something, like drugs,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: or sex workers, or gambling. Any one of those could
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: explain the random chunks of money coming out of his account,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: but more than that, they could theoretically explain Wilfred's hidden
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: connection to Richard, that sort of secret connection that maybe
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: they had. And if those two did know each other,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: then maybe no one had hired Richard after all. Maybe
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Richard had killed Wilfred over something that was just between
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the two of them, like an unpaid loan or a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: deal that went bad. But now, Frechette actually had a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: chance to find out himself, because that afternoon, the Timmons
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: police had finally tracked Richard down and arrested him. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Frechette had made the two-hour drive from Capus Casing to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Timmins so he could interview Richard himself. Once inside, Frechette
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: spoke to the officer at the.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Station's front desk.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And then quickly, they had someone take Frechette back to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Richard's holding cell. And when they got there, Frechette found
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Richard inside the cell, slumped over on the bench, looking
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: exhausted and maybe strung out. His clothes were really dirty,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: he smelled terrible, and his eyes were completely bloodshot. Bruchette
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: entered the cell and sat down across from him and,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: as aggressively as he could, started laying out the facts.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He told Richard that on the morning of the murder,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: like right after it happened, Wilfred's neighbor had seen Richard
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: leaving the crime scene and they would be able to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: pick him out of a lineup for sure. This neighbor
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: also saw Richard's blue pickup truck, which had been found
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: abandoned in near a pair of bloody boots that were
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: in Richard's size. Frechette said the lab was still testing
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the blood, but he was fairly confident that it was
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: going to come back as Wilfred's. Frechette told Richard that
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: with all this evidence, there really was not a jury
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: anywhere in Canada that wouldn't convict him. So if Richard
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: wanted any chance of a lighter sentence, he had to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: come clean right now.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But Richard didn't seem to.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Care at all about Frechette's threats. He just kind of
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: laid there, glaring at the floor and refusing to say
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a word. A few days later, Frechette was back at
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the Capus Casing police station, walking a constable through a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: script that he had written out. Now, Frechette still didn't
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: actually know for sure if Richard really was the killer,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: but assuming he was, Frechette didn't know why he did it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: He still was sort of torn on the issue. Like,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: did Richard Boucher kill him for personal reasons? Or was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Richard hired by somebody else? However, despite being torn between
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: these two ideas, Frechette had sort of landed on a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: theory and a way to test it too. His plan
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: was actually really simple. The constable that he was talking
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: to right now was going to call the person Frechette suspected.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And the constable was going to try to trick them
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: into incriminating themselves. Now, Frechette couldn't do this himself. because
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the suspect would definitely recognize his voice, and so this
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: wouldn't work that way. So once the constable was all prepped,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Frechette picked up the phone, dialed the number, and then
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: handed the phone to the constable. And when the suspect answered,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the constable just launched into the script that Frechette had
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: given them. He told the suspect he was a concerned friend,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: but he couldn't share his name. He had to be anonymous.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And he said he was only calling for one reason.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: He knew what the suspect had done. What he wanted
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: was just to hear exactly what the suspect had told
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the police.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: That was it. Just to help them.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: The line went quiet for a second, and everybody just
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: kind of held their breath as they waited to see
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: But finally, the suspect spoke.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: And they said they hadn't told the police anything, and
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: that they had enough money to make sure nobody else
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: did either. And when Frechette heard that comment about having
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: enough money here, he knew his theory had been right.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: because there was a mastermind, somebody behind Wilfred's murder, and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: they had just given themselves away. Based on witness testimony
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: and recorded evidence, this is what police believe happened to
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Wilfred Goudreau. On the afternoon of September 18th, 1987, so
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: this is four months before Wilfred was killed, the mastermind
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: behind Wilfred's murder, the eventual mastermind, sat in a diner
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: in Timmins waiting for someone to arrive.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: They knew that meeting with this person was going to be.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: A very big risk, but they were tired of feeling
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: angry and they wanted Wilfred to pay.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Eventually, the mastermind saw a man in his 30s enter
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the restaurant.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: And after they made eye contact, this man walked over
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and slid into the booth across from the mastermind. And
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: then over lunch, the two of them talked through all
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the details of the mastermind's plan. Four months later, on
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the morning of January 12th, 1988, basically in the middle
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of the night, the mastermind was laying awake in bed,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: literally shaking.
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: With nervous anticipation. Their heart was racing because this was it.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Tonight was the night. Their plan.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: was going to be carried out, which meant they were
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: finally going to get the money they deserved out of Wilfred.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: And so the mastermind, as they were laying there, eventually
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: noticed what time it was and knew at any moment
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: it was about to start. And sure enough, just then
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: they heard the sound of somebody walking in through the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: door that led into their house. calm as can be,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the mastermind simply climbed out of bed, walked into a bedroom.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Closet, and closed the door.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And that's because the mastermind was Wilfred's own girlfriend.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Agathe Brichot.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She'd gotten fed up with how cheap Wilfred was, and
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: she wanted his money all to herself. And in fact,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: she'd already started taking it before he was dead. For
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: months before the murder, she had been the one moving
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: money from Wilfred's account to her own, without him ever noticing.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Just sort of ironic for a guy that was so
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: focused on protecting his money. Detective Brichette had honed in
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: on Agathe when he learned about the missing money and
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: realized that Agathe would have had access to Wilfred's bank accounts.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Agathe had hired Richard to be her hitman, and she
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: had been introduced to him by her niece, who happened
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: to own one of the bars that Richard provided exotic
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: dancers to. And Agathe actually paid Richard the money from
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Wilfred's own savings. so Wilfred basically paid for his own murder.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Agathe Bruchot and Richard Boucher were both charged with first-degree murder. However,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Richard would take his own life before the trial.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: As for Agathe, she.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Was convicted, and she spent 20 years in prison before
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: being released on parole in 2009. Thank you so much
• 31:24
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• 31:26
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• 31:32
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• 31:35
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