Allan Legere

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Allan Legere (1948 - ) is a Canadian serial killer, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi (not "of Miramichi": at the time this nickname was first applied to him, the City of Miramichi proper did not exist, and so it referred to the region along the Miramichi River).

He escaped custody in April of 1989 (while serving a life sentence for the brutal murder of a shopkeeper, John Glendenning) and remained free for seven months. During this time he committed four more murders, arson and multiple rapes, before he was recaptured. Rewards of $50,000 were collected for his capture.

His trial was the first Canadian uses of DNA fingerprinting during which his lawyers argued that the relatively shallow gene pool of the Miramichi region could easily lead to false positives^[1]

Legere was convicted for a second time in 1991, and is currently one of only 90 prisoners held in Canada's maximum security Special Handling Unit(SHU).

It is largely suspected that Allan Legere may have had a 5th victim while he was on the loose. This was never proven due to little evidence at that crime scene.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

• NFB film, Allan Legere: The Monster of Miramichi
• Profiles of five SHU inmates including Legere
• Article on the legal history of DNA fingerprinting which cites the Legere case, misnaming him as "Alain Légère" (requires Adobe Acrobat reader)