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Allan Legere (born 1948) is a
CanadianCanada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
serial killerA serial killer is a person who murders three or more people over a period of more than 30 days, with a "cooling off" period between each murder, and whose motivation for killing is largely based on psychological gratification. Often, a sexual element is involved with the killings...
, also known as the
Monster of the MiramichiThe Miramichi River is a Canadian river located in the east-central part of New Brunswick. The river drains into Miramichi Bay in the Gulf of St. Lawrence...
. He escaped custody in April 1989 while serving a
life sentenceLife imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious felony crime where the convicted person is to remain in prison for the rest of his or her life...
for the murder of a shopkeeper, John Glendenning, and remained at large for seven months.
During this time he committed four more murders,
arsonArson is the crime of deliberately and maliciously setting fire to structures or wildland areas. It may be distinguished from other causes such as spontaneous combustion and natural wildfires caused by lightning for example. The study of the causes is the subject of fire investigation...
, and multiple
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s, before being recaptured. Rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest.
His trial featured one of the first Canadian uses of DNA fingerprinting; despite his lawyers' argument that the relatively shallow gene pool of the Miramichi region could easily lead to false positives, Legere was convicted for a second time in 1991.
It is largely suspected that Legere may have killed a fifth victim while he was on the loose. This was never proven, however, due to little evidence at that crime scene.
As of 2008, he was one of only 90 prisoners held in Canada's maximum security
Special Handling UnitThe Special Handling Unit is Canada's highest super-maximum security prison. It is located in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. As of 2008, it is home to 90 prisoners. It is nicknamed The SHU ....
(SHU).