On Jan. 27, 2008, Penny Boudreau was a 33-year-old cashier living with her boyfriend who worked at the same grocery store in Bridgewater, a small town of less than 9,000 people on Nova Scotia’s ...

Penny Boudreau reported her 12-year-old daughter Karissa missing on the night of a heavy snowstorm in Jan 2008; in an emotional news conference, the Nova Scotia mother made a tearful appeal for ...

Penny Boudreau is escorted from provincial court after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Karissa Boudreau, in Bridgewater, N.S., on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.