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ST. THOMAS. Ont. — “Random victim.”

Those two words stung the most in the courtroom Friday during a brief, sanitized account by the Crown of what happened to Sarnia kindergarten teacher Noelle Paquette three years ago.

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Sitting in separate Plexiglass prisoner’s boxes, with tight security around them, were her murderers — Michael MacGregor, 22, and Tanya Bogdanovich, 34, their backs turned to the packed gallery where quiet sobs were heard.

They were an odd couple.

MacGregor, a graduate of A.B. Lucas secondary school in London, looked barely old enough to shave. Slight and clean-cut, he stared at the floor.

Bogdanovich, a personal support worker, had her long, grey-streaked hair pulled in a loose ponytail that hung over one shoulder. She never turned around.

Moments before the facts were read, the pair had made surprise guilty pleas to first-degree murder in the brutal death of the popular 27-year-old Paquette, a murder that sent shock waves through Sarnia and across Ontario.