Penny Boudreau

• Retired Nova Scotia investigator speaks out after Penny Boudreau’s day parole extension

  For John Elliott, a former Southwest Nova RCMP Major Crimes sergeant who worked on the original case, it's a disappointing outcome.

  Canada

  Jul 6
  
• Penny Boudreau, convicted of 2008 murder of daughter in Nova Scotia, gets day parole

  Penny Boudreau killed her daughter Karissa in 2008, claiming she ran away after an argument outside a Bridgewater, N.S. grocery store. 

  Crime

  Dec 16, 2025
  
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• Penny Boudreau being given prison leave is a disappointment: ex-RCMP investigator

  A former RCMP investigator who worked on the Karissa Boudreau murder case says he's disappointed with the recent decision to grant her mother unescorted leave from prison.

  Canada

  Jun 20, 2025
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• Nova Scotia woman who killed daughter given 60-day leave from prison, but not parole

  Boudreau was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the Jan. 27, 2008, death of Karissa Boudreau, after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for strangling her only child.

  Canada

  Jun 18, 2025
• Crime Beat: Karissa Boudreau — up with the angels

  For years, Paul Boudreau could not even visit Bridgewater, N.S., where his 12-year-old daughter Karissa was murdered in 2008.

  Canada

  Nov 6, 2020
• N.S. mother who strangled daughter allowed escorted leave from prison for church

  A Nova Scotia woman who strangled her 12-year-old daughter to death has been granted four escorted leaves over the next 12 months to attend church services.

  Crime

  Jul 7, 2018