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Canadian Serial Killers: Karla Homolka, Robert Pickton, Paul Bernardo, Gilbert Paul Jordan, Wayne Boden, Keith Hunter Jesperson, Clifford Olson
Canadian Serial Killers Karla Homolka Robert Pickton Paul Bernardo Gilbert Paul Jordan Wayne Boden Keith Hunter Jesperson Clifford Olson Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Karla Homolka, Robert Pickton, Paul Bernardo, Gilbert Paul Jordan, Wayne Boden, Keith Hunter Jesperson, Clifford Olson, Léopold Dion, William Patrick Fyfe, Joh... more »n Martin Crawford, Peter Woodcock, Allan Legere. Excerpt: Allan Legere (born 1948) is a Canadian serial killer , also known as the Monster of the Miramichi . He escaped custody in April 1989 while serving a life sentence for the murder of a shopkeeper, John Glendenning, and remained at large for seven months. During this time he committed four more murders, arson , and multiple rapes , before being recaptured. Rewards of $50,000 were collected for the information that led to his arrest. His trial featured one of the first Canadian uses of DNA fingerprinting ; despite his lawyers' argument that the relatively shallow gene pool of the Miramichi region could easily lead to false positives, Legere was convicted for a second time in 1991. As of 2008, he was one of only 90 prisoners held in Canada's maximum security Special Handling Unit (SHU) in Quebec. References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Clifford Robert Olson, Jr (born January 1, 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia ) is a convicted Canadian serial killer who confessed to murdering two children and nine youths in the early 1980s. Murders On November 17, 1980, 12-year-old Christine Weller of Surrey, British Columbia was abducted. She was found on Christmas Day , strangled with a belt and stabbed repeatedly. On April 16, 1981, Colleen Marian Daignault, 13, vanished. It was five months before her body was found. By then, Daryn Todd Johnsrude, 16, had also been abducted and killed; 16-year-old Sandra Wolfsteiner was murdered on May 19 and 13-year-old Ada Court in April. Six victims followed in quick succession in July 1981. Simon Partington, 9, was...« less