OLD ORCHARD BEACH - Christopher and Carol Bolduc run the Blustery Day Flags store located at 39A and B Old Orchard Street. At around 2:15, Carol Bolduc left the store for the day and headed home to be with her younger son, JoshuaJoshua reviews
. Carol called Christopher at the store and told him that she noticed Matthew Cushing’s vehicle parked at the dog park. Matthew was Carol’s son from a previous marriage. He was supposed to be in college at the University of Maine at Orono. At approximately 3:30 P.M., Christopher tried to contact his wife by telephone but was unsuccessful. Christopher then told Bill Huntington, an employee at the store and a family friend, that he was going home to check on them. Matthew Cushing had recent fallout with his parents over the fact that they would not finance a trip to Europe he wanted to take. He had been angry enough that Christopher got worried when the wife called about Matthew’s vehicle, and angry enough that Bill Huntington told Christopher that he would call police if he did not hear anything from him in an hour.
At 5:42 P.M., a neighbor of the Bolduc’s called the store to notify the Bolduc’s that an alarm was coming from their home. It was at this point that Huntington called 911 to alert them of a possible problem at the Bolduc’s. Fire Department personnel responded and entered the residence finding the dead bodies of Christopher Bolduc, Carol Bolduc and Joshua Bolduc. Matthew was later apprehended and eventually admitted to killing his mother, Carol Bolduc, 42, his stepfather, Chris Bolduc, 42, and his half-brother, Josh Bolduc, 15, by stabbing them to death. He then set fire to the home in an attempt to cover up the crimes. He is facing three counts of murder and one count of arson.
The affadavit states that when Christopher Bolduc left the store and got to the home, he found his wife and son dead. Matthew then stabbed him to death before leaving in his mother’s vehicle.
Thanks sassymom !
2:20 am on February 25th, 2008
I am beginning to wonder what is in these colleges water fountains….Seems to be a rush on college kids killing.
2:58 am on February 25th, 2008
I want to say what a selfish, self centered and evil person this man must be. He is twenty-two and mad because his parents wouldn’t give him the money go to Europe. Call me crazy, but wouldn’t getting a job and saving up for the trip been a more appropriate response than slaughtering your family and setting the house on fire? The only trip he is going on now is up to prison at the expense of the tax payers.
3:07 am on February 25th, 2008
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=81395
watch the video, it makes this case so weird, how can someone go from being such a “great” person to something like this?????
3:08 am on February 25th, 2008
i mean the tattoo, the love, the funnyness???
4:53 am on February 25th, 2008
wow what a switch, sad that his friends are willing to back him up… piece of shit.
8:13 am on February 25th, 2008
makes me happy that I decided not to have kid’s. Need to go back to the good ole day’s of parent’s being able to stand up to their kid’s and being firm in making them understand if they want anything they have to do it for themselves and if it doesn’t work out…oh well don’t come crying to them.
Now I am curious has the father of this wonderful guy made a statement and was he aware of what the mother was going thru there had to be some sign’s somewhere….
10:47 am on February 25th, 2008
Well, in all fairness, it seems as if this is exactly what they did. Sometimes there really is no explanation or forewarning that someone is just bat-shit crazy.
11:04 am on February 25th, 2008
wow. There are some heartless people out there. And I’m not talking about the kid that killed his family.
Raising a child is the most rewarding thing you could ever experience in life. You raise a child and that child raises another. That ensures that you have made a contribution in this world. You have done something that could have made the future. Who knows, 3-4 generations down you may have created a President or a Doctor. Happy to not have kids? That’s a very sad statement. But after hearing that I’m glad you made that choice as well because you obviously wouldn’t make a good parent. If only other bad parents would have made that choice.
About the man that just killed his family. That is certainly sad. I hope remaining family will find out why he did what he did.
11:23 am on February 25th, 2008
If you’re kid is college age when you start laying down the rules you are probably doing it wrong.
I can’t help but wonder about the parents killing kids/kids killing parents, I have always believed a bit in nurture vs. nature so much and wonder if the shallow end of the gene pool may be self-cleaning?
11:41 am on February 25th, 2008
You know, Morbid might have made a great parent, but chose not to do it. I’ve been impressed with the even-handedness and rationality of his comments here on the board. He impresses me as a person who works to be fair, direct, and thoughtful: good qualities for a parent.
Raising a child in the hope that somewhere down the line a president or doctor pops up is not the only way to ensure one has made a contribution, nor is it necessarily a good way in this over-populated world.
Parents chose to do what they wanted. Others may not have had that option nor found that road the best for themselves. No need to get into that “most rewarding thing you could ever experience in your life” b.s. because none of us have ever experienced all the opportunities that life holds and therefore no one can judge what is “most rewarding.”
And before anyone accuses me of disliking parents, let me point out that I have always admired good parents — they are heros in their commitment to their families.
11:42 am on February 25th, 2008
I don’t think they were laying out the rules, they just denied his request for money, and stayed firm with that decision. Sounds like they were doing it right.
Again, this kid was just fucked. By the reactions the parents had that day after knowing his car was parked nearby (checking in, the friend stating they would call police, leaving the store to go check), I am guessing that he has demonstrated behavior before that warranted that level of concern.
11:55 am on February 25th, 2008
I think choosing not to have children is a very personal decision. Those people deserve our respect. It is a very responsible choice.
However, I do have issue with non-parents telling us parents what we should and should not do in raising our children. Any parent knows, what you SAID you would do when you were childless and what you actually do when you have children are two different things. It isn’t all black and white. If it was, they would come home with an instruction manual.
11:56 am on February 25th, 2008
Well, you can certainly get killed, whether you have kids or not. So choosing not to have kids doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t meet an untimely end. But without taking this thread too much off topic, I do want to point out to rxallen that there are many ways one can make a contribution to the world and to history besides having children. Not that having kids isn’t a worthwhile and rewarding thing to do…it’s just not the only worthwhile and rewarding thing to do.
12:04 pm on February 25th, 2008
I’d also add that, while I don’t have children, if I did…I think I would have as much of an issue with other parents telling me how to raise my children as I would with non-parents telling me how to raise my children. Each situation is different. There are plenty of good pieces of advice that can be offered whether or not one has kids. For example, every day I see people who have their kids bouncing around in the car instead of in a car seat where they belong. I don’t have children, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know that kids should be in car seats or otherwise buckled up. Just because I’ve never had a bun in the oven doesn’t mean I’m incapable of knowing what kinds of things might just be a bad idea when children are involved.
What I do get frustrated with is the blindness of many people, who immediately say, “Not my child! My child would never X…” As I point out to my students whenever someone brings up that argument, there’s not a person alive who hasn’t done something they knew darn well their parents didn’t approve of. For some of us, we’re still praying well into adulthood that our parents never find out, either. Clearly, there are some family situations that just replicate the cycle of ignorance over and over and over…but it’s still not as simple as saying, “If they’d only done X, this never would have happened.” Regardless of whether a parent or non-parent is saying it.
1:12 pm on February 25th, 2008
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=81368
1:14 pm on February 25th, 2008
I see your point, I should have worded it better. From my experiance, Having my son has made my life great. I feel that from what I’ve seen/been through, it is the most rewarding thing. I don’t have high hopes for my family line, I’m the first one in my family that even made it to College but I plan to ensure my son gets the education and care he needs/desreves. Some parents don’t give that to thier children. I became a parent at a young age and I’m sure my age is seen in my writing. I try not to make judgements and that comments was not meant for Morbid, it was meant for KEBAJ.
I was brought up with simple morals and simple rules. Respect your elders, never judge someone until you know them, and always think before you act. I was not brought up with strict rules and I made my mistakes.
1:21 pm on February 25th, 2008
Well said. I have 6 children, and my childless sister tells me all the time how I could better raise my children, if I would just listen to her. She is also an alcoholic, and smokes pot like they are regular cigarettes. So I guess it’s a good thing she chose not to have kids. If she ever did she would probably have an article written about her along the same lines as the article about Lisa Schuchard. She has even made the comment that she would let my children join her in her drinking and pot smoking if they wanted to. Can you guess how often my kids get to see her without my presence in the room? Anyone guess….NEVER! You get an A+. Yet, she thinks she is qualified to give me advice on child-rearing. I, too, think that the decision to have children is an intensely personal one, and those who choose not to, have just as much chance of making an impact on society and our future generations as those who have kids.
This kid sounds like he may have had a temporary break from reality. However, in order to ensure that it doesn’t happen again, I think he should either be locked up for life with no possibility of parole, or given the DP. Just my opinion, though.
1:36 pm on February 25th, 2008
This conversation was bound to head off topic as most do when the suspect is young. Why didn’t the parents do this… What could have been done to stop it… I would like to apologize for taking it off topic like I did. I am just going to end my comments with this.
My thoughts go out to the father of this young man. He is going to have to make a big choice in how he feels about this situation. My thoughts also go out to all remaining family as this is a very tragic situation. To all the parents out there, bring up your kids to the best of your abilities. This world is not kid friendly!
1:41 pm on February 25th, 2008
not to worry, we don’t get all upset about being on or off topic here. Some of us can go 50 comments about a couch.
Damned couches.
1:45 pm on February 25th, 2008
I thought I put his myspace link here. Now I don’t see it. *scratches head*
1:52 pm on February 25th, 2008
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=41269211
1:54 pm on February 25th, 2008
While I deserve every, single one of those compliments, as they are 100 percent correct, I did not state I did not have kids. That was KebaJ. I have many, many children.
1:55 pm on February 25th, 2008
Morbid is very nearly quiverfull in his breeding capacity. Let’s just say it’s a good thing he never met Michelle Duggar.
2:03 pm on February 25th, 2008
Thank God cuz I know you leave the den to pick some up from school daily and I was starting to re-evaluate my opinion of you if you weren’t a parent.
I just meant to imply that if your ADULT child reacts to your denial for money by killing you, perhaps you didn’t do it right MUCH earlier.
God forbid someone blame a victim I know, but think it through. These monsters come from somewhere, I can’t believe that the seed is so off that this is inevitable without some input from the environment. I don’t want to believe people get this hopeless on their own.
2:21 pm on February 25th, 2008
Morbid, you are such a tool
2:27 pm on February 25th, 2008
What a fucking little prick. His parents were paying his way through college, and he’s upset because they didnt send his spoiled ass to live it up in Europe?
8:29 pm on February 25th, 2008
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! Away, away!
10:18 pm on February 25th, 2008
Thanks everyone for some very interesting posts. I enjoyed reading them.
I guess I was just making a Freudian slip and revealed how much I want to bear Morbid’s children (but so do most other women, half the men, some breeds of dogs, and every couch in the world — so what are my chances?)
10:23 pm on February 25th, 2008
Pretty good.
10:47 pm on February 25th, 2008
Spawn of Satan aren’t we all?
11:07 pm on February 25th, 2008
Girlish giggle! (Triumphant look at couch in my living room.)
2:52 am on February 26th, 2008
You’re all faceless, heartless assholes.
I am currently 21 years old. I grew up in Old Orchard Beach. I grew up with Matthew Cushing. I was in his kindergarten class. I was in his 6th grade class with Mrs. Smarc. I have known this individual for more than half of my entire life. The fact that you people can be so crass and callous is disgusting. I realize what he did was heinous and awful, but not even being his close friend I knew that that is not the kind of life he led. I was one of the biggest losers in school and he was always nice to me. He was always funny and joking and he was very smart. I don’t know how to put into words how shocked I was when I heard about the incident, but it affected me extremely deeply. He is a human being too. He fucked up. He fucked up really badly. Good people can do some seriously bad things. Matt was not the kind of guy that would do something like this, but the evidence points so clearly at him.
You people really just don’t understand. The residents of Old Orchard are upset not because we lost the Bolducs, but because we also lost Matt. All of them were part of the community and its just a tradgedy that this happened. Why don’t you people with nothing better to do than look at all the foibles of others take a good look at yourselves. Go do something with your life instead of sitting around judging others in a very unfair courtroom.
Seriously. Fuck you all.
3:50 am on February 26th, 2008
I knew Jeffrey Dahmer and he was a good kid too, until he met my friend Steven Hicks. Jeffrey was always funny and joking and he was also very smart. He got away with the perfect murder when he met Steve and we still would not know where or who killed Steve if Jeffrey hadn’t confessed. Steve was always funny and joking and he was also very smart. So, you knew Matthew, I am so sorry that you had to lose your friend by his actions, but he brought all the hurt and sorrow on his friends and the neighborhood the minute he killed his family. If your friend wouldn’t have done this horrible crime, because his parents wouldn’t give him the money go to Europe, but wouldn’t getting a job and saving up for the trip been a more appropriate response than slaughtering his family and setting the house on fire, then he wouldn’t be on the Dreamin Demon for us to comment on.
4:43 am on February 26th, 2008
I’m crawling off my death bed here to deal with you,mister. Just today, as I’m still knocked out with the flu, I found out a friend of my daughters who has been in my house as recently as a week ago seriously hurt his father. He came home drunk and beat the crap out of him. He is probably going to die. Every one knew he didn’t get a long with his dad,but no one expected him to try to KILL HIM for being in trouble for breaking curfew. Another teen life down the drain because someone was too drunk and too angry to control their temper.
You know what else? Someone,somewhere, has a message board about drunk teenagers committing patricide, and I’m going to either avoid the board, or post on the board, but I will not go on the board and act self righteous or make excuses for what he did.
We’re in the same boat right now,pal. I think I’m further in, you just made fun of the kid in school. I took this one to school. So don’t embarrass what the criminals left behind, thats you and me. You can be damn sure they were not thinking about their friends, or the friends parents they called mom, or about anything but how they knew it all,and if that bastard of a mom/dad/family wasn’t ruining their plans then life would be so much easier.
5:24 am on February 26th, 2008
Welcome to The Internet, Phil. Phil, meet Denial. Denial, meet Phil.
What? You’ve already met? You’re sleeping together? I should have guessed.
Innocent until proven guilty is great for the courtroom, but it wasn’t so helpful for Josh Bolduc. Maybe you ought to be mourning HIM. Or Carol Bolduc. Or Christopher Bolduc. They got the death penalty, and as nearly as I can tell they committed no crimes. Put that in your Imaginary Internet Courtroom and judge it.
When I was just out of high school, a very good friend of mine killed a guy. At the time it made national news. And I loved that kid- but I never made excuses for what he’d done. When he took an innocent life, my friend messed up a lot of lives, mine included. I never would have dreamed of telling people not to judge him. He killed someone – he deserved to be judged. So if i won’t step off for *my* friend, what makes you think I’d step off for yours, who took THREE lives?
We really have to get up that Perpetrator Defense Hate Mail Form for the Contact Us link. Heh.
5:26 am on February 26th, 2008
Damn right, Ells.
I’m so sorry you’re dealing with such a rough time right now. Your daughter must be devastated. I hope you feel better soon, at least physically. We’re here if you need us.
8:54 am on February 26th, 2008
He didn’t “fuck up.” He murdered.
9:25 am on February 26th, 2008
I took your advice. Nope. I didn’t murder my family. Can’t compare myself to a worthless piece of shit murdering scumbag spoiled brat. I tried, but I’m not that much of a asshole.
No, seriously, fuck YOU. How dare you get on here and try to get us to feel sympathy for a murderer. How dare you get on here and tell us not to judge someone who not only killed his mother and father – who he was angry with -but kill a 15 year old boy who had nothing to do with it. This was not a car accident. He didn’t shoot these people in their sleep. He didn’t slowly poison them. Their death was not painless and easy. He stabbed them to death! You know they fought for their lives, but he was aware of himself enough to do it THREE times.
There are 3 dead people out there that were loved and going to be missed by many other people because of the actions of ONE person. You need to sit back and think about. One day, when you have a family of your own, you may understand our anger.
10:23 am on February 26th, 2008
Why don’t you stick around? It seems you are pretty good at judging people as well. I mean, we judge people after they murder their family, you judge people by the comments they make about it. But we will be more than happy to get you up to speed.
You would never be that lucky. Besides, Imp is expensive and Kathy has me booked up until May of 2009.
Sorry to see things have not changed much for you.
10:32 am on February 26th, 2008
Facts remain that he was so selfish at THIS POINT IN HIS LIFE about something as petty as travel. Not to mention that he should have grown up by now, got a job and SAVED UP if he wanted to freakin’ “backpack” around Europe. He did what he did, it is horrible, it is public record, and there is not a PHIL that can make me not THINK or SAY what the hell I want to about the subject.
He’s not the kid u grew up with dude.
10:38 am on February 26th, 2008
I like you Phil, so let me disregard your tone and some of the inflammatory comments that have been so well answered and give you a straightforward response to this claim of yours.
We do understand, we are impressed that you understand it is a tragedy and they are all lost. We are respectful of you because you do not make excuses and decry innocence.
You should grieve for those near to you, its natural and seeing things here where we look objectively at heinous crimes in society might not be the best use of your time at this stage in the process. If you think about it metaphorically you are screaming obscenities at the crowd gathered at the crime scene tape. We just came to see the train wreck and out dances a fuckin clown, bonus dude!
10:40 am on February 26th, 2008
Sorry to hear about this Ells, prayers and stuff…
10:44 am on February 26th, 2008
Now you see, that’s why you gotta love Morbid. Can I get in line to bare one of your many, many children? LOL! I know it will be after May, ‘09 and sometime after Wry, so let me know when my number is up.
10:51 am on February 26th, 2008
Honey, from what you have written here, you are still a loser.
Fucking up is when you take you dad’s car for a joyride and get in a fender bender. Fucking up is when you blow your SAT. Your lil buddy Matty knowing and intentionally murdered his family. The three people who loved him the most. He stabbed and slashed the little brother who loved and looked up to him the most. All because he couldn’t drop out and go to Europe. So no… Matricide Matty just didn’t merely fuck up. He is a cold blooded killer in the worst way. And those of you who support a mother and brother killer… well.. y’all are just stupid and sad. Now run along Phil and go fuck yourself. ^_^ Or.. just maybe… when Matricide Matty gets settled in prison, you can get conjugal visits.
10:55 am on February 26th, 2008
Me too, Ells, sorry for all the bad. I bet you freaked when you found out what he had done and just how often you allowed him into your home. It just proves – you really can’t judge the book (kid) by his cover. I’m sure you had no idea. Wow.
Phil, I’m just gonna be nice, for now. You need to face the facts as hard as they are. People are not the same in adult life as you remember them in kindergarten or the 6th grade. Wake up.
I’m sorry for your loss, but I’m more sorry for the family that was just murdered. In your 21 years, you have not grasp the severity of this selfish, murderous act. Why I don’t know, but you have not or you wouldn’t be mad for us making comments about a murderer.
I hope that you now realize, if you care for a murderer, this is probably not the best place for you to be reading. We are going to bash his murdering ass. So, for your own feelings, maybe you would like to return when are featuring a different murderer. Welcome, anyway.
10:59 am on February 26th, 2008
That is great. lmao….
11:02 am on February 26th, 2008
I liked that, too.
I just wanted to give Phil one pass before firing him up.
11:09 am on February 26th, 2008
If he was such a good guy, Phil, why in the hell did his mother freak out when she saw his car? Why did she feel the need to let her husband know? Why, when her husband couldn’t reach her by phone, did he rush off to check on her and his son’s safety? Why did he tell a fellow employee “to call someone if he didn’t hear anything within an hour”?
You need to ask yourself these questions and answer them, honestly. And further, you might say a prayer, thanking God, that he didn’t murder your ass, too. Good guys do not strike this kind of fear in families hearts, just by seeing their car in town. Think about it, hell you’re 21, you’re big enough to face facts.
12:21 pm on February 26th, 2008
Thanks, y’all! I stayed up way too late last night looking through this site, reading about evil, and went to bed with tears in my eyes. Then I wake up this morning, check the comments, and can’t stop laughing. Y’all should write for Leno or Letterman! Still ROFLMAO. I really don’t think there’s anything I can add to this discussion at this moment, but if I think of something later, well……
12:25 pm on February 26th, 2008
Listen ya little smart ass, who indeed is being judgmental here? No one here is faceless, heartless or assholes….okay well, a few of us are assholes, but you only got one right asshole!!…from one asshole to another, that’s cool right?
Okay, seriously does this mean you want to fuck all of us? I mean damn, that sounds a bit whorish to me, but whatever you’re into, man. We are a lusty fucking bunch with loads of experience, sure you can handle us?
Muhahahahhahaha
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