Next time you pass by the western edge of the downtown Palais de Concrete conference centre, devote a moment to think about Raymond Trudeau, who lived around the corner and was lured into the home of Lucien Picard at 267 Lagauchetiere W., murdered and dismembered.The little boy had gone to visit his father David Trudeau, 34, at work nearby to ask him to buy an ice cream on July 27, 1954 but his father said it was too close to dinnertime so the boy walked home.
That's when Lucien Picard, 43, a 4'11" unemployed machinist from Quebec City with a Charlie Chaplin mustache, who lived in the rooming house, kidnapped the boy.
On trial Picard said he strangled the boy when he started to scream in his room.He went drinking afterwards and cut up the body the next day, a Friday, while drunk.
A witness found body parts in a cardboard box in a garbage on the morning of July 27. Picard was arrested in Quebec City.
Picard was found guilty and hanged at 12:30 a.m. at Bordeaux prison on Feb. 11, 1955.
A year later Picard's roommate Charles St. Laurent, 40, was found guilty of "gross indecency charges involving youngsters.