A book author and former journalist says notorious serial killer Allan Legere was raised in a situation where it was hard to be surprised that he became psychopathic.
“His mother was rough and ready, he grew up rough and ready,” said Rick MacLean. “He learned to fight early on, because that’s what his life required.”
Legere died on Monday while serving a life sentence at the Edmonton Institution in Alberta, Correctional Service Canada confirmed in a news release.
Legere has been called the “Monster of the Miramichi” for the crimes he committed in the area in the 1980s, including murder, rape and arson. He had been in prison for the murder of shopkeeper John Glendenning and the beating of Glendenning’s wife, Mary, but escaped May 3, 1989, while being escorted to a medical appointment in Moncton, about 120 kilometres south of the Miramichi region.
During his 201 days as a fugitive, Legere brutally murdered four more people in three separate attacks.
Rick MacLean, editor of the Miramichi Leader at the time of Allan Legere’s violent crime spree and co-author of books about the serial killer, holds up a letter his wife received from Legere using a pseudonym that talked about MacLean’s new baby. (Jacques Poitras/CBC)
MacLean was the editor of the Miramichi Leader at the time and co-authored the books, Terror: Murder and Panic in New Brunswick and Terror’s End: Allan Legere on Trial.
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