12 Facts About Allan Legere

Matchett pleaded guilty to murdering John Glendenning and beating his wife; Curtis and Allan Legere were convicted at trial.

Allan Legere was serving his murder sentence at the Atlantic Institution maximum security penitentiary in Renous-Quarryville, under the responsibility of the Correctional Service of Canada.

On May 3,1989, Allan Legere was transported by CSC personnel from the penitentiary to the Dr Georges-L.

Allan Legere managed to convince the CSC personnel to let him use a washroom at the hospital alone, and there he picked the lock on his handcuffs.

Allan Legere had concealed a sharpened piece of metal in his rectum, and was able to pick the lock on his handcuffs and held the officers at bay before fleeing the building.

Allan Legere escaped the hospital property and through a combination of carjacking and motor vehicle theft, was able to evade recapture.

Allan Legere was at large for a period of seven months and during this time committed four additional murders in and around the towns of Chatham, Newcastle, and adjoining communities.

Allan Legere was recaptured on November 24,1989, following a failed carjacking that began in Saint John and ended outside Rogersville; rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest.

Allan Legere's trial featured the first Canadian uses of DNA profiling to convict rather than exonerate; in November 1991, Allan Legere was convicted of the murders committed while he had been at large.

In 2015, Allan Legere was transferred from the super-maximum security penitentiary to the Edmonton Institution in Alberta.

In 1996, the provincial jail in Fredericton was shut down, and in 1999 the building was repurposed into a science museum; the cell in which Allan Legere was held during his 1991 trial is used for an exhibit on DNA profiling.

Allan Legere was scheduled for a parole hearing on January 13,2021, where he was denied.