Crimes Allan Legere Commited
Allan and his accomplices Todd Matchett and Scott Curtis shut off the power of a elderly couples store and when they broke in Allan repeatedly beat John and his wife Mary then the fled the scene and Mary woke up to see her husband laying on the ground dead after being beaten to death. Mary crawled up the stairs and got to the phone and called the police dispatch and was on the phone till the Police emergency forces arrived. The police tracked down the three criminals and had aressted them. Allan Legere and Todd Matchett pleaded guilty to murdering John Glendenning and brutally beating his wife Mary Glendenning, Scott Curtis was also convitced in the case. Allan spent his time in Alantic Institution maximum security penitentiary in Renous, New Brunswick. On May 3rd, 1989 the CSC personnelwas transporting him to Dr. Georgers Dumont University Hospital centre in Moncton, New brunswick for an treatment for his ear infection. Legere was able to convince on of the CSC personnel to let him use the washroom in the hospital alone, and there he was able to have a chance to pick the lock of his hand cuffs with a homemade key he hid in his cigar. Then he used a peice of television antenna that he had concealed on his body that he used as a weapon, then he held the officers at bay before fleeing the building he was able to escape the hospital property and was able to carjack a few cars and motor vehicle theft and was able to evade recapture. While Legere was on the run he was at large for seven months and during that time he commited four additional murders in and around Chatham, New Brunswick and Newcastle, New Brunswick and joing communities that are now apart of Miramichi. The individuals that he had murdered are Annie Flam, her sisters Linda and Donna Daughney, and Father James Smith. On November 24th, 1989 Leger was recaptured following with a failed carjacking that began in Saint John, New Brunswick and ended outside Rogerville, New Brunswick; Rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest. As of 2008, he was one of only 90 prisoners held in Canada's only Super Maximum security penitentariy, nicknamed the "SHU", in Sainte Anne des Plaines Quebec.