Allan Joseph Legere
Allan Legere was born on the 13th of February, 1948, in Chatham, New Brunswick. A large imposing man, he was also known as the Monster of the Miramichi. Looking into Allan's life as a youth, you could tell that in his later years Allan would be in trouble with the law. His father wasn't in the picture, and his stepdad, left one night to go to the store and never returned.
His deviant sexual behavior showed itself early in life. His family was not well off; his family supported by his single mother. Allan was crammed into a single room that he shared with his sisters. In Allan's own words, he would often masturbate while watching his sisters undress. This behavior continued as Allan got older, evolving into peeping into woman's rooms while masturbating.
He liked to work out and was proud of his physique. He was a tall muscular man, and if you imagine what Paul Bunyan might have looked like, chances are you would imagine someone that looked similar to Allan.
Allan had a bit of an obsession with religion. Once he scared the crap out of people by rushing into a church shirtless and proclaiming that he was the one true path to God, and only by accepting Allan as their true savior would they be granted passage into Heaven.
At one point in 1979, Allan got in trouble with police for getting into a fight and stabbing a man in the face with a broken beer bottle and twisting it, nearly severing the man's cheek. Allan even pulled a knife of the police when they came to arrest him for the assualt.
At one point in 1979, Allan got in trouble with police for getting into a fight and stabbing a man in the face with a broken beer bottle and twisting it, nearly severing the man's cheek. Allan even pulled a knife of the police when they came to arrest him for the assualt.
Allan Legere's Crimes
On June 21, 1986, Allan and two other people; Todd Matchett and Scott Curtis decided to rob a convenience store owned by elderly couple John and Mary Glendenning. They cut the power to the building before entering, ambushing the couple. Allan was convinced that there was a safe somewhere that John and Mary had hidden somewhere.
"Where is the safe!" he would yell at John and when John told him he didn't have one, Allan beat him severely. Allan continued to beat John, then moved on to Mary when he didn't get the answer he liked. Allan lost consciousness and unfortunately, he would never wake up. John died as the trio beat, then raped his wife Mary.
Mary would awaken later and she was only able to crawl she was beaten so badly. After slowly crawling to a phone, the elderly woman was able to call the police. The police quickly were able to find and arrest the three men.
Todd Matchett pleaded guilty to the murder of John Glendenning. Allan and Scott Curtis were convicted at trial.
Allan Legere was sentenced to life in prison and was sent to a maximum security prison in Renous, New Brunswick. A crucial piece of information that probably should have been forwarded to the prison was that during Allan's trial, he successfully picked the lock on his handcuffs in an attempt to escape.
Allan Legere was devious. He would poke a piece of metal in his ear constantly until he gave himself an ear infection. When he was escorted to the hospital for treatment of the ear infection, he asked to go to the washroom once he got there. In a severe lapse of judgment, Allan was allowed to use the washroom unsupervised. He had concealed a sharpened piece of metal in his rectum and was able to pick the lock on his handcuffs. Emerging from the washroom wielding the piece of metal as a weapon, he was able to escape to the parking lot of the hospital.
In the hospital parking lot, Allan abducted a woman named Peggy Olive and forced her into her car and drive him away from the hospital. Allan was able to escape the police and later Peggy was released unharmed.
Allan was on the run from police for seven months. While he eluded police, he murdered four more people arson and multiple sexual assaults.
While on the run from police, Allan ruthlessly beat and killed shop owner Annie Flam, and he beat and raped Annie's sister Nina. The Flams ran a grocery that had their apartment built in. After the assault and murder, Allan set fire to the grocery in order to cover up his crimes. The emergency service workers would find the grocery ablaze. Nina was badly beaten and burned but did survive the ordeal.
Nina told the police that she had heard footsteps coming up the stairs to her room, and when she got up to investigate the noise, a man had rushed into her room. The man easily overpowered Nina and tied her up, beat her then raped her. He then tucked her tightly back into bed. Nina was able to untie herself and free herself from the bedsheets and fought her way through the smoke and flames, but collapsed at the foot of her stairs. Police discovered that her sister Annie suffered a similar attack.
On October 13th, 1989, in Newcastle, New Brunswick, sisters Donna and Linda Daughney were attacked and murdered. Firefighters found the Daughney house fiercely burning. The sisters had been beaten and raped, their bodies badly burned in the fire.
Little did Allan realize, that a new type of forensic evidence was being collected from his crimes. DNA evidence. Utilizing a new lab that had been opened up in Ottawa, police were able to link Allan Legere to the murders of Annie and Nina Flam, and Donna and Linda Daughney.
While the police linked Allan to these crimes, he struck again. On November 16th, at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Chatham Head, the congregation waited for Father James Smith to arrive to give his sermon. When he didn't arrive, some concerned members went to look for him in the rectory next door. What they discovered was a horrifying scene. There was blood all over the kitchen of the rectory and Father James Smith was found dead on the floor of his office near his safe.
Police found that Father Smith had been tortured in a prolonged physical attack, and his body showed devastating injuries. It is assumed that Allan tortured Father Smith to get him to open the safe. Allan didn't set a fire this time and left large bloody footprints all over the scene.
Father Smith's car was later found near a motel and contained a pair of bloody boots that matched the footprints found in the rectory. A week later Allan would hijack a taxi at gunpoint, demanding to be taken to Miramichi. Demanding that the driver go faster than was safe for conditions, the taxi driver lost control and ended up putting the taxi in the ditch.
Allan flagged down another car and took the driver of that car as a hostage and took the taxi driver as a hostage as well. When that car needed gas the trio stopped at a gas station on the side of the road and Allan gassed up the vehicle, taking the car keys with him. When he went inside the station to pay, the two hostages started the car with a set of spare keys and sped off. They stopped and phoned the police as soon as they thought it was safe.
Allan was arrested trying to hijack a truck and surrendered when he realized that the police had surrounded him.
Alan returned to prison to serve the remaining time from his previous conviction and in October 1991, he would be convicted of 4 counts of first-degree murder, after just three hours of deliberation in the first case in Canadian history where the prosecution was based almost entirely on forensic and DNA evidence.
Allan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 25 years and sent to the maximum security prison in Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines, Quebec. In 2015 he was transferred to a maximum security prison in Alberta.
The manhunt for Allan Legere was one of the largest ever in Canadian history. Even at 70 years old Allan Legere is considered an escape risk. Legere has been described as a master manipulator and kept a list of people who have wronged him.
Allan Legere deserves to spend the rest of his days behind bars and has never shown remorse for his crimes. If he was ever able to get out into the public again I don't doubt that he would commit other crimes, and would definitely be a significant threat to public safety. I get the feeling that he would be a "go out with a bang" type, but for now, he is right where he deserves to be.
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Allan was on the run from police for seven months. While he eluded police, he murdered four more people arson and multiple sexual assaults.
While on the run from police, Allan ruthlessly beat and killed shop owner Annie Flam, and he beat and raped Annie's sister Nina. The Flams ran a grocery that had their apartment built in. After the assault and murder, Allan set fire to the grocery in order to cover up his crimes. The emergency service workers would find the grocery ablaze. Nina was badly beaten and burned but did survive the ordeal.
Nina told the police that she had heard footsteps coming up the stairs to her room, and when she got up to investigate the noise, a man had rushed into her room. The man easily overpowered Nina and tied her up, beat her then raped her. He then tucked her tightly back into bed. Nina was able to untie herself and free herself from the bedsheets and fought her way through the smoke and flames, but collapsed at the foot of her stairs. Police discovered that her sister Annie suffered a similar attack.
On October 13th, 1989, in Newcastle, New Brunswick, sisters Donna and Linda Daughney were attacked and murdered. Firefighters found the Daughney house fiercely burning. The sisters had been beaten and raped, their bodies badly burned in the fire.
Little did Allan realize, that a new type of forensic evidence was being collected from his crimes. DNA evidence. Utilizing a new lab that had been opened up in Ottawa, police were able to link Allan Legere to the murders of Annie and Nina Flam, and Donna and Linda Daughney.
While the police linked Allan to these crimes, he struck again. On November 16th, at the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Chatham Head, the congregation waited for Father James Smith to arrive to give his sermon. When he didn't arrive, some concerned members went to look for him in the rectory next door. What they discovered was a horrifying scene. There was blood all over the kitchen of the rectory and Father James Smith was found dead on the floor of his office near his safe.
Police found that Father Smith had been tortured in a prolonged physical attack, and his body showed devastating injuries. It is assumed that Allan tortured Father Smith to get him to open the safe. Allan didn't set a fire this time and left large bloody footprints all over the scene.
Father Smith's car was later found near a motel and contained a pair of bloody boots that matched the footprints found in the rectory. A week later Allan would hijack a taxi at gunpoint, demanding to be taken to Miramichi. Demanding that the driver go faster than was safe for conditions, the taxi driver lost control and ended up putting the taxi in the ditch.
Allan flagged down another car and took the driver of that car as a hostage and took the taxi driver as a hostage as well. When that car needed gas the trio stopped at a gas station on the side of the road and Allan gassed up the vehicle, taking the car keys with him. When he went inside the station to pay, the two hostages started the car with a set of spare keys and sped off. They stopped and phoned the police as soon as they thought it was safe.
Allan was arrested trying to hijack a truck and surrendered when he realized that the police had surrounded him.
Allan Legere's Conviction, post-escape
Alan returned to prison to serve the remaining time from his previous conviction and in October 1991, he would be convicted of 4 counts of first-degree murder, after just three hours of deliberation in the first case in Canadian history where the prosecution was based almost entirely on forensic and DNA evidence.
Allan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 25 years and sent to the maximum security prison in Ste-Anne-Des-Plaines, Quebec. In 2015 he was transferred to a maximum security prison in Alberta.
The manhunt for Allan Legere was one of the largest ever in Canadian history. Even at 70 years old Allan Legere is considered an escape risk. Legere has been described as a master manipulator and kept a list of people who have wronged him.
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