Asked if there were strangers at the party, Bolduc told Van Sant, “I know most of them, but the people that came at the very end of the party, I did not know. I had no idea who they were.”
At one point, the party got a bit rough. “People got up and started a fight behind me and I bounced into the fire,” she explained.
Jordy Bolduc was injured, so her boyfriend carried her to his truck and told Maddy they were leaving.
“What did she say to you?” Van Sant asked.
“She was just like shocked,” Bolduc replied. “She’s like, ‘Really, you’re going?’ and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m going.’ And she kinda begged me and then I was like, ‘Well, you can come with us … and she said no … she wanted just to stay there with her tent for it to be safe.”
“Did she tell you she thought it would be safe?”
“Yeah, she said she thought it would be fine,” said Bolduc.
“What time did you leave the party?” Van Sant asked.
“Hmmmm, I left around 1 [a.m.],” she said.
By 10 the following morning, Bolduc was feeling guilty about leaving Maddy alone. She returned to the lake to help her pack up.
“And then I got there and there was no Maddy. And I looked around … checked the place. I was like, ‘Oh maybe she’s in her truck,'” she said.
Jordy Bolduc noticed that the tent was a mess.
“The door was wide open,” she recalled. “The blankets and everything were pushed to the side. Her rings were outside … she never takes off her rings… there are rings on the ground and earrings, wooden on the ground … and I was like ‘Whoa.’ … It was just like ‘Where’s Maddy?'”
Investigators have focused a lot of attention on Bolduc and the last people to leave the party.
“Common sense dictates that Jordy was a suspect. She was one of the last people … who spoke with Maddy,” said Sgt. Ken Floyd of the RCMP.
“I was probably talked to every single day for three months,” Bolduc explained. “I went in for like two polygraphs.”
“And the result?” Van Sant asked.
“They said I aced it. I aced the polygraph,” she replied in a whisper.
“Jordy is no longer a suspect,” said Constable Tom Wamsteeker of the RCMP.