Bio
Allan Joseph Legere is a Canadian serial killer and arsonist, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi. He was born on February 13, 1948 in Chatham, New Brunswick and is still alive today at the age of 67. As of 2011, Legere was held in Canada’s only Super-Maximum Security Penitentiary (SHU), in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec. That penitentiary houses some of Canada’s most dangerous offenders. In 1996, the city of Fredericton shut down its old jail, and in 1999 the building was then used as a science museum; the cell in which Legere was held during his 1991 trial is now used for an exhibit on DNA fingerprinting.
Why he is infamous
Allan Legere was known the most for terrorizing the people of Miramichi in New Brunswick for 201 days in 1989 after he had already been captured for murdering another person. During that time span he killed four people in three vicious and cruel attacks. The way he murdered his victims was by beating them to death in a very sadistic manner. Two of his four victims were two sisters which manifests how had no remorse for his appalling acts. He spent hours torturing the four victims before eventually taken their lives from the countless and atrocious beating he had given them. During the span of 201 days Legere had was captured and convicted twice because after his first capture he escaped. He escaped by convincing a security officer at one of the penitentiaries to let him use the washroom alone. During that time he picked the lock of his handcuffs and pretended to have a concealed weapon in his shirt and he ran off by hijacking a couple cars and making his way back to Miramichi. However, now after his arrest everyone feels safer in the city of Miramchi due to the sentencing of Allan Legere. He was charged with first degree murder, second degree murder, sexual assault, grand theft auto, aggravated robbery, and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 25 years.