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Killer of Princeton area woman handed life prison term

Roger Dale Badour pled guilty in 2014 to the second-degree murder of Giselle Duckham in 2011 near Princeton, B.C. Submitted

A long term sex offender who murdered his landlady in a shooting on a rural property near Princeton has been sentenced to life in prison.

In November 2011, Gisele Duckham, 56, was shot twice in the head.

Roger Badour had a history of befriending vulnerable women and Duckham had allowed him to stay in a travel trailer on her property.

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Badour was on the run after failing to return to his halfway house in Victoria.

Badour said he killed Duckham because she threatened to turn him in.

“Before I knew it I had the rifle already fired. I realized she was still moving so I shot her again,” Badour admitted in court.

Badour, 65, pleaded guilty to second degree murder and will not be eligible for parole for ten years.

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