Accused on November 5th of 2018, former CFL football player, Joshua Boden, may be facing a hefty sentence and a lengthy wait for parole eligibility, states the Crown.
He was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend then staging the scene to make it look like an accident, reports CTV.
It was about ten years prior to the accusation that the crime had been committed. Kimberly Lynn Hallgarth was the victimβs name; her lifeless body was apparently found on her doorstep, at the base of the stairs, just inside the doorway. She was 33 when the murder occurred. She left behind a daughter named Hailey.
Boden, who played for the
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Hamilton TiβCats soon after but didnβt play any games on that roster.
According to the investigation, Boden blamed the victim, his ex-girlfriend, for the end of his career, stating that she had sabotaged him by sending photographs to the coach of the BC Lions back then, Wally Buonoβ¦the photographs were specifically of abuse sheβd suffered at the hands of Boden and damage he had made to her car.
The crime in question occurred specifically in 2009. This of course was not his only brush with crime, as apparently in that same year, he also sexually assaulted 2 women at a Vancouver Sky Train station.
The Crown prosecutor said this week that the de
tails of this murder are the most shocking they have ever seen, and they are quite graphic indeed.
Crown Counsel/prosecutor, Brendan McCabe, gave details of the caseβ¦
He said that after the victim was unconscious, Boden proceeded to throw some pills around her body to make it look like a suicide or something of the sortβ¦but the manipulation of the body and the crime scene did not stop there.
Boden allegedly also placed some socks into her
mouth as she lay dying at the base of the staircase. But the most gruesome instances came before he moved her to that location, when he stomped on her neck as she lay unconscious and removed her fingernails, even wiping her body with a towel.
McCabe said further:
βWe donβt even know how Ms. Hallgarth ended up at the bottom of the stairsβ¦β
The Crown states that a life sentence without t
he chance of parole before the 15 year amount of time has passed, would be appropriate under the circumstances.
Justice Arne Silverman presided over the case this week, and took testimony also from Vida Miller, who is the victimβs mother-in-law. She stated that Hallgarthβs daughter, who was 3 years old at the time of the crime, is now a teenager and is living with her, and not in BC.
She informed the court that her life is forever changed and she still isnβt okay from all of this.
The haunting words of the victimβs daugh
ter resonated in the courtroom that day and since by way of recording according to the same, aforementioned source:
βHe took the world from meβ¦He took a piece of my life that I can never get back.β
The judge was obviously taken by the testimony, as he made the following statement at the end of the proceedings:
βI promise you that Iβll keep in mi
nd what you read to meβ¦Iβll never forget it,β which of course speak volumes.
A sentencing hearing is scheduled to occur on June 24thβ¦then and only then will the verdict on the parole eligibility be given. We will keep you posted when that occurs, dear readers.
Boden for his part, has denied the allegations, sticking to his βnot guiltyβ pleaβ¦apparently he also appeared to be βwithout remorseβ in the courtroom this week. As part of his defense, he has cited abuse in his own life as a child, as well as other complex issues that arenβt holding any water for anyone paying attention to this case.
It was on the day of the murder that 3-year-old
Hailey got back to the home she shared with her mother with her nanny and when they tried to open the door they couldnβt, as her motherβs body was obstructing the door from opening any further, thus not allowing entry into the houseβ¦perhaps even in death, a motherβs way of shielding her little girl from the signs of torment and mutilation waiting just beyond that thresholdβ¦one last effort to protect her childβ¦an effort she could not at all go through with because of what Boden had done to her.
