THREE DEAD IN MURDER, SUICIDE
The Rayne Tribune October 15, 1927
News Article from Adadia Parish
Submitted by Winston Boudreaux, 2006

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THREE DEAD IN MURDER, SUICIDE
The Rayne Tribune October 15, 1927

HUSBAND KILLS WIFE, GIRL THEN SELF IN CHURCH POINT SATURDAY

 Two killed, one seriously wounded and the murderer himself dead sums up the 
tragedy which occurred near Church Point Saturday night. This crime, one of 
the most atrocious in the history of this section was committed three miles 
northeast of Church Point by Will Daigle 32, who killed his common law wife 
Rosa Boudreaux 21, her sister, Emily 11, and hideously wounded another 
Eugenie 9. After shooting those three he turned the pistol on himself and 
died almost instantly with a bullet thru the heart.

 The family lived in a mere shack and the three girls were spending the night 
there. They were in the bed while the man and his wife were on the floor. In a 
temporary fit of jealous insanity, Daigle arose and fired a bullet through the 
brain of his wife who was sleeping, killing her instantly. He then began firing 
at the children in the bed. Eugenie was shot thru the head, the bullet entering 
near her nose and passing entirely thru the skull coming out on the opposite 
side. At first she was thought to be mortally wounded however, recent reports 
from the Duson sanitarium where she was taken, are to the effect that her condition 
is improved slightly. Emily ran from the house in an attempt to reach a neighboring 
house for help but died near Bayou Plaquemine where her body was found Sunday. 
Marie Boudreaux, age 13, received only a slight flesh wound in the palm of her 
hand as she grappled with Daigle to prevent his killing Rose Boudreaux’s four year 
old child and hid in a nearby barn. During the night she said she heard the 
murderer stalking in and out of the house and the dread fear of his finding her 
hiding place nearly drove her insane. Finally she said, she heard him go in to 
the house and mourn over the body of his wife, reproaching himself for having 
killed her, when he could stand his fear and grief no longer, he turned his 
pistol, a Smith & Wesson 38 on himself and fell across the body of his dead wife. 
About six o’clock Sunday morning Marie entered the house and covered the forms 
with blankets, then taking the smaller child with her went for assistance. 

 Daigle was known to the Church Point section as a “bad man” and he had 
threatened the lives of several people. He had recently been arrested and 
was to have stood trial in November.

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FOURTH VICTIM IN MURDER DIES

October 22, 1927

The fourth victim, Eugenie Boudreaux, of a murder and suicide in Church Point 
community on Sunday morning, October 9, died early Thursday morning.

 The little girl had lingered between life and death since the shooting when she 
was mortally wounded, the bullet entering by her nose, passing entirely thru and 
coming out on the opposite of the head. The three other persons dead in the 
tragedy are Will Daigle, 32, who suicided after killing his wife, Rosa Boudreaux, 21, 
and her sister, Emily, 11, Eugenie 9 and the two other victims were sisters. The 
affair will be one long remembered in this community due to the gruesomeness and 
horror of it.