Killers were ‘a perfect match’
When their sex had lost its lustre, they decided to up the ante with violence
Tanya Bogdanovich called Michael MacGregor “the best friend I’ve ever had.”
“I feel so lucky I can’t even believe it. I can feed every need. I can fulfill every urge, I feel no shame about what I like or who I am with you because U ( sic) have the ( sic) urges or at least ones that work so perfectly with mine,” she wrote to him in a computer message three weeks before they killed an Ontario kindergarten teacher. “We will be an epic team.” “A perfect match.” Like Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, or Michael Rafferty and Terri- Lynne McClintic, who abducted, raped and killed girls, two morally bankrupt, violent people found each other — this time on social media.
Just seven months after meeting on a website for people with interests in sadomasochism, Bogdanovich and MacGregor raped and killed 27- year- old Noelle Paquette on Jan. 1, 2013.
The sinister lives of the couple from Sarnia, Ont., are described in Crown documents, released Friday after a sealing order was lifted, on character evidence filed with the court.
Bogdanovich, 32, and MacGregor, 22, pleaded guilty to first- degree murder last month. Their sentencing hearing begins on Feb. 10.
Both joined the sexual fetishes website wanting to explore the darkest side of their fantasies. Bogdanovich was looking for others interested in “rape play” and had a sexual “bucket list” that included being raped in a wooded area. She took on many roles in sex play, but her dominant personality was Mistress Ivy, who “is mean, cruel, calm, calculated and completely dominates all situations when she gets to be in charge.”
She wrote stories about sexually assaulting teenagers. She said in some of the messages retrieved by the police that she was a teenage victim of sexual abuse at a group home in Sarnia. “Many moons ago,” she told a friend, mental health professionals wanting to help her with her sex addiction said she was a “danger.”
The only person she ever shared her sexual fantasies with after talking to the professionals was MacGregor.
MacGregor described himself as someone who could “be talked into just about anything,” and he was looking for someone to “experiment with me.”
He said he had “a very high sex drive to say the least.” In his first online connection with Bogdanovich, he said he wanted to be “broken” and discover how far he could go in the world of bondage and dominance.
The first day they met, he raped her on a trail at a conservation area. It was “scary and exhilarating,” she wrote.
They kept upping the ante of their relationship while Bogdanovich had a boyfriend and three children and held a job as a nurse and personal support worker.
Bogdanovich wrote about her love of knife play and bleeding. MacGregor liked to choke her until she made him quit.
They also were into role playing. MacGregor would dress up as a Ninja pirate. She was the “puma” and he was her “cub.”
The two posted photos of Bogdanovich leading MacGregor around at a Sarnia shopping mall on a leash. They gave each other nicknames – Sterling Archer and Lana Kane – from their favourite cartoon FX’s Archer.
Things started to sour in the relationship in November 2012. The sex had lost its lustre. They decided they needed more violence.
In early December, they started talking about abducting, raping and killing a teenage girl.
“We should make it like a routine kind of thing where we just approach random girls to get used to it,” she wrote to MacGregor. “We can start next week babe.”
Bogdanovich went to a Home Hardware store and bought a knife.
They had a young girl they knew in mind as a victim but on New Year’s Eve 2012, they discovered their intended target wasn’t available. “May hafta ( sic) take a random,” Bogdanovich wrote to MacGregor.