Allan Legere

Allan Legere (born February 13, 1948) is a Canadian serial killer and arsonist, also known as the Monster of the Miramichi. On May 3, 1989, Legere escaped from Prison Guard custody while serving a life sentence at the Atlantic Institution for the murder of shopkeeper John Glendenning, of Black River Bridge, New Brunswick, on the evening of June 21, 1986. Legere had been transported from Renous to the Georges L. Dumont Hospital in Moncton for the treatment of an ear infection when he escaped. Legere managed to convince officers to let him use the washroom at the hospital alone, and there he picked the lock on his handcuffs with a homemade key he had hidden in a cigar. He then used a piece of T.V. antenna that he had concealed on his body as a weapon, and held the officers at bay before fleeing. After his escape, Legere committed four additional murders, killing Annie Flam, sisters Linda and Donna Daughney, and Father James Smith. He was recaptured on November 24, 1989; rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest.

Legere's trial featured the first Canadian uses of DNA fingerprinting, and Legere was convicted of murder for a second time in 1991.

As of 2008, he was one of only 90 prisoners held in Canada's only Super-Maximum security penitentiary, nicknamed the "SHU", in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec.