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Allan Legere : The Murdering Psychopath of the Miramichi
Last post 07-25-2008, 5:26 PM by bigandy. 15 replies.
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Allan Legere : The Murdering Psychopath of the Miramichi
 
The Miramichi Psychopath: Allan Legere
Psychopath Allan Legere -- dubbed the " Monster of the Miramichi" -- is scheduled to be transferred sometime this week from the super-maximum security Special Handling Unit at Ste-Anne-des-Plaines near Montreal to a regular maximum security prison in Port-Cartier, 70 kilometres west of Sept-Iles, Quebec.
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, the lead investigator on the Smith murder, said Legere fits the classic definition of a psychopath.
"He's a guy with no conscience and extremely manipulative," said Johnston.
"He can be the nicest guy in the world. He's also a very intelligent and pleasant individual. He's the type of person you could have in your home and he would impress people."
He said Legere has never admitted guilt for his crimes, adding the violence involved in the murders was "extraordinary."
"He must be conning some psychologists or case workers," said Johnston about the possibility of Legere's transfer.
"He's sitting there, 24 hours a day, planning his next escape. That's what he's doing right now."
Area residents paid a high price for errors made by Corrections Canada 20 years ago when New Brunswick's most notorious serial killer escaped custody to rape, beat, and kill three women and murder an elderly Catholic priest.
Allan Legere is serving a life sentence for the grisly killings of five people in the Miramichi area.
He was sentenced to life in prison for the 1986 murder of John Glendenning, a shopkeeper in Black River Bridge, before escaping custody in 1989.
That's when Legere embarked on a murderous rampage that terrorized the Miramichi region, beginning with the rapes and murders of 75-year-old Annie Flam and sisters Linda and Donna Daughney.
Legere is also responsible for the death of Father James Smith, 69, beaten in his home in Chatham Head.
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| 07-22-2008, 5:24 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : The Murdering Psychopath of the Miramichi
This monster should never be put where they are putting him..He should remain in Super maximum security untill he is dead! which can't be soon enough
The hell he put people through cannot be put into words...Miramichi lived in terror ...and the nightmares he put people through will live in their minds forever!
May he rott in hell....
People's ignorance really blows my mind sometimes..
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| 07-22-2008, 5:57 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : The Murdering Psychopath of the Miramichi
I somehow doubt Maximum security is noticeably less difficult to escape from than super-maximum security. I think the only difference is with internal organization of prisoners, as in there's more solitary confinement and segregation in a supermax.
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| 07-22-2008, 6:22 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : The Murdering Psychopath of the Miramichi
But why the transfer at all...
Are they actually looking to the future and his possible release?
That is a scary possibility....
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| 07-22-2008, 7:12 PM |
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Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Update:
'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit: Ottawa
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Notorious serial killer Allan Legere - nicknamed the 'Monster of Miramichi' following a series of grisly murders in the late 1980s - will remain in a high-security handling unit, New Brunswick's public safety minister has been assured.
John Foran said on Tuesday he received a phone call from his federal counterpart, Stockwell Day, to confirm that Legere will stay in the special Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que. facility where he is currently housed.
"He has assured me was that (Legere) will never be moved back to New Brunswick ... that (his security status) will not be downgraded and he will definitely not be moved," Foran said.
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| 07-22-2008, 8:30 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
It's interesting to note how that news story twists the facts and sets them out in such a manner as to imply that Allan Legere has cunningly fooled people into getting himself moved from supermax to max. Which isn't at all what the articles says, but that's what I got out of it the first read through.
The retired RCMP officer is saying that Legere has fooled case workers and psychologists, who deal with this kind of thing every day and are used to dealing with psychopaths. Not likely.
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| 07-22-2008, 8:41 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
 Lord Denning wrote:
The retired RCMP officer is saying that Legere has fooled case workers and psychologists, who deal with this kind of thing every day and are used to dealing with psychopaths. Not likely.
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, has good reason to be skeptical and concerned.
He is at the top of the list of people that Legere has sworn to kill.
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| 07-22-2008, 9:01 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Paladin wrote:
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, has good reason to be skeptical and concerned.
He is at the top of the list of people that Legere has sworn to kill.
OK, being at the top of someone's hit list is not good reason to be skeptical. Concerned, yes. Skeptical, no.
On a somewhat unrelated point, is it a possibility that Legere has now become "institutionalized", as was defined in the novella made into a movie: "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption", particularly given the advances the world has seen in the 20 years since he's been put away? He'd find the world quite a different place than the one he knew in the 80's.
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| 07-22-2008, 9:03 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Paladin wrote:
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, has good reason to be skeptical and concerned.
He is at the top of the list of people that Legere has sworn to kill.
OK, being at the top of someone's hit list is not good reason to be skeptical. Concerned, yes. Skeptical, no.
On a somewhat unrelated point, is it a possibility that Legere has now become "institutionalized", as was defined in the novella made into a movie: "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption", particularly given the advances the world has seen in the 20 years since he's been put away? He'd find the world quite a different place than the one he knew in the 80's.
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| 07-22-2008, 9:05 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Paladin wrote:
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, has good reason to be skeptical and concerned.
He is at the top of the list of people that Legere has sworn to kill.
OK, being at the top of someone's hit list is not good reason to be skeptical. Concerned, yes. Skeptical, no.
On a somewhat unrelated point, is it a possibility that Legere has now become "institutionalized", as was defined in the novella made into a movie: "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption", particularly given the advances the world has seen in the 20 years since he's been put away? He'd find the world quite a different place than the one he knew in the 80's.
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| 07-22-2008, 9:06 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Paladin wrote:
Former RCMP Mason Johnston, has good reason to be skeptical and concerned.
He is at the top of the list of people that Legere has sworn to kill.
OK, being at the top of someone's hit list is not good reason to be skeptical. Concerned, yes. Skeptical, no.
On a somewhat unrelated point, is it a possibility that Legere has now become "institutionalized", as was defined in the novella made into a movie: "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption", particularly given the advances the world has seen in the 20 years since he's been put away? He'd find the world quite a different place than the one he knew in the 80's.
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| 07-22-2008, 9:10 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
Lord Denning wrote:
OK, being at the top of someone's hit list is not good reason to be skeptical. Concerned, yes. Skeptical, no.
Ok...I'll pass that on to Mason the next time I bump into him...it might ease his mind.....
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| 07-23-2008, 9:18 AM |
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| 07-23-2008, 3:21 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
I haven't bumped into him in a long time.
I had met him years ago alomg with others from the MPD, back then. An acquaintance at best. Enough to say "Hi, how ya doing ? " if I did bump into him. He has a distinctive face, once you've seen and met him, you'd never forget it. He was a damn good cop and a nice person also.In one of Legere's earlier exploits, Johntson had put a round into him as he was trying to escape out of a trailer window on the Salisbury Road. Unfortunately the bullet missed all vital organs .Sadly, Legere recovered. To the best of my knowledge, Johntson no longer lives in this immediate area.
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| 07-23-2008, 6:03 PM |
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Re: Allan Legere : 'Monster of Miramichi' to remain in high-security unit:
I've heard about that chase through the trailer park.
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