1 00:00:07,173 --> 00:00:10,218 [insects and birds chirping] 2 00:00:12,053 --> 00:00:15,015 [lawnmower rattling] 3 00:00:15,056 --> 00:00:18,018 [soft dramatic music] 4 00:00:18,059 --> 00:00:24,733 * * 5 00:00:30,238 --> 00:00:33,158 [foreboding music] 6 00:00:33,199 --> 00:00:40,331 * * 7 00:00:51,926 --> 00:00:54,721 - Oh! Ah! 8 00:00:54,763 --> 00:00:57,432 Oh, oh, oh, oh! 9 00:00:59,267 --> 00:01:01,436 [lock clicks] 10 00:01:04,105 --> 00:01:05,440 - In our suburbs, 11 00:01:05,482 --> 00:01:09,486 evil lurks behind closed doors-- 12 00:01:09,527 --> 00:01:14,616 true stories so terrifying because the horror is real. 13 00:01:14,657 --> 00:01:18,370 You will never look at your neighbors the same way again. 14 00:01:18,411 --> 00:01:20,413 I'm John Carpenter, 15 00:01:20,455 --> 00:01:22,957 and this is "Suburban Screams." 16 00:01:22,999 --> 00:01:24,626 [person shrieks] 17 00:01:28,004 --> 00:01:32,467 - I told my wife, he's in a maximum security prison. 18 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:34,010 He's not getting out. 19 00:01:34,052 --> 00:01:37,097 What I didn't tell her was, if he does get out, 20 00:01:37,138 --> 00:01:38,431 we'll have to run. 21 00:01:38,473 --> 00:01:40,266 We won't have any choice. 22 00:01:40,308 --> 00:01:43,228 [suspenseful music] 23 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:49,234 * * 24 00:01:50,443 --> 00:01:52,779 My name is Rick MacLean. 25 00:01:52,821 --> 00:01:56,783 I grew up in the city of Miramichi in New Brunswick. 26 00:01:58,993 --> 00:02:01,371 Miramichi was a sort of middle class, 27 00:02:01,413 --> 00:02:04,833 working class kind of community. 28 00:02:04,874 --> 00:02:07,377 It was quiet. It was peaceful. 29 00:02:07,419 --> 00:02:10,171 And people knew each other's business. 30 00:02:10,213 --> 00:02:12,507 They knew if there was trouble at home. 31 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:14,634 They knew if the kids were being bad. 32 00:02:16,845 --> 00:02:21,599 - My name is David Cadogan. I moved to Miramichi in 1976. 33 00:02:24,019 --> 00:02:28,732 I found Miramichiers to be the kindest, most generous people 34 00:02:28,773 --> 00:02:30,817 that I'd ever run into anywhere. 35 00:02:30,859 --> 00:02:32,360 And they still are. 36 00:02:32,402 --> 00:02:33,862 - Everyone's dying to escape 37 00:02:33,903 --> 00:02:35,780 to one of Canada's best kept secrets. 38 00:02:35,822 --> 00:02:38,158 - * By the sea * 39 00:02:38,199 --> 00:02:41,411 * Miramichi * 40 00:02:41,453 --> 00:02:44,122 - When my father and I bought our first paper there, 41 00:02:44,164 --> 00:02:47,667 we had to build the whole business from the ground up, 42 00:02:47,709 --> 00:02:48,835 pretty much. 43 00:02:48,877 --> 00:02:50,253 I went to Manpower. 44 00:02:50,295 --> 00:02:53,006 And I said, look, I said, I need somebody 45 00:02:53,048 --> 00:02:54,591 that I can teach to be a reporter. 46 00:02:54,632 --> 00:02:56,217 When Rick turned up, he said, a-ha. 47 00:02:56,259 --> 00:02:57,761 He said, I think this is the kind of guy 48 00:02:57,802 --> 00:03:01,222 that Dave might be looking for, sent him to see me. 49 00:03:01,264 --> 00:03:03,183 - The first words I remember out of his mouth were, 50 00:03:03,224 --> 00:03:05,101 who the fuck are you? 51 00:03:05,143 --> 00:03:07,187 And I said, Rick MacLean. 52 00:03:07,228 --> 00:03:09,647 I'd like to interview for the reporter's job. 53 00:03:09,689 --> 00:03:11,358 - We sat down and we talked. 54 00:03:11,399 --> 00:03:15,278 And 15 minutes later, he went to work. 55 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,490 - So I worked at the newspaper for a few months. 56 00:03:18,531 --> 00:03:20,367 At one point, Dave asked, 57 00:03:20,408 --> 00:03:22,369 where do you see yourself in five years? 58 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:23,870 And I never missed a beat. 59 00:03:23,912 --> 00:03:25,413 I looked him right in the eye, and I said, 60 00:03:25,455 --> 00:03:27,374 I see me doing your job in five years. 61 00:03:27,415 --> 00:03:29,417 And he howled with laughter. 62 00:03:29,459 --> 00:03:32,045 That's how I ended up the editor of the newspaper. 63 00:03:32,087 --> 00:03:35,715 - You need an editor with a killer instinct, really. 64 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:38,051 And he was just brilliant at that. 65 00:03:38,093 --> 00:03:42,889 Rick could be quite bloodless when he was on the hunt. 66 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:47,310 [suspenseful music] 67 00:03:47,352 --> 00:03:49,771 * * 68 00:03:49,813 --> 00:03:52,565 - This is a very small-town newspaper. 69 00:03:52,607 --> 00:03:54,859 But it's "The New York Times" of Miramichi. 70 00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:56,986 The newsroom was only four desks. 71 00:03:57,028 --> 00:03:59,406 But Dave wanted this to be the best newspaper, 72 00:03:59,447 --> 00:04:01,908 pound for pound, in the country. 73 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:06,913 It was me, my wife, and reporter Bonnie Sweeney. 74 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:07,956 - For you. 75 00:04:07,997 --> 00:04:08,915 - Good morning, Bonnie. 76 00:04:08,957 --> 00:04:10,000 - Morning. 77 00:04:10,041 --> 00:04:11,418 - More fan mail? 78 00:04:11,459 --> 00:04:13,878 - You know how much they love you. 79 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:16,798 [typewriter clacking] 80 00:04:28,685 --> 00:04:30,145 - You must be doing something right, Rick. 81 00:04:30,186 --> 00:04:32,272 This guy wants to use your testicles for golf balls. 82 00:04:32,313 --> 00:04:34,649 - Yeah, he isn't the only one. 83 00:04:34,691 --> 00:04:36,359 - It's your job as editor. 84 00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:38,069 Pick the fights. 85 00:04:38,111 --> 00:04:41,489 Those in power accountable, all that crap-- 86 00:04:41,531 --> 00:04:44,117 just get me those fucking headlines. 87 00:04:44,159 --> 00:04:48,413 * * 88 00:04:48,455 --> 00:04:50,498 - [sighs] 89 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,920 - The whole idea was that you covered the go-kart races 90 00:04:55,962 --> 00:04:59,132 and you covered court and you covered the car accidents 91 00:04:59,174 --> 00:05:00,800 and you covered city council. 92 00:05:00,842 --> 00:05:02,302 There were no blaring headlines. 93 00:05:02,344 --> 00:05:04,846 But we worked around the clock trying to find them. 94 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:06,973 [phone ringing] 95 00:05:07,015 --> 00:05:10,018 * * 96 00:05:10,060 --> 00:05:12,479 - Hello, Mira-- 97 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,565 ah, wait, wait. 98 00:05:15,607 --> 00:05:17,400 I--you need to slow down. 99 00:05:19,778 --> 00:05:20,987 What? 100 00:05:22,739 --> 00:05:24,449 - Another angry reader? 101 00:05:24,491 --> 00:05:26,284 - There's been a murder. 102 00:05:26,326 --> 00:05:30,663 * * 103 00:05:30,705 --> 00:05:32,457 - Uh, honey, I think we need to-- 104 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:35,418 - I'll cancel dinner with the Stevensons. 105 00:05:35,460 --> 00:05:37,587 Just get home safe. 106 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:42,342 - Thank you, sweetie. 107 00:05:42,384 --> 00:05:46,888 * * 108 00:05:46,930 --> 00:05:49,849 [dog barking] 109 00:05:59,025 --> 00:06:01,486 [tense sting] 110 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:05,824 [zipper whirs] 111 00:06:07,492 --> 00:06:10,537 - Was that a boot print on his skull? 112 00:06:10,578 --> 00:06:12,455 - John Glendenning is the victim. 113 00:06:12,497 --> 00:06:14,916 Botched robbery, most likely. 114 00:06:16,084 --> 00:06:17,752 We just got his wife to the hospital. 115 00:06:17,794 --> 00:06:20,797 It's a miracle she made it. 116 00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:23,925 - Who would do something like this? 117 00:06:23,967 --> 00:06:26,344 * * 118 00:06:26,386 --> 00:06:28,513 [sighs] 119 00:06:28,555 --> 00:06:34,728 * * 120 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:39,149 - The community is panicked 121 00:06:39,190 --> 00:06:41,026 because this is the first murder in years 122 00:06:41,067 --> 00:06:43,528 that anyone can remember, certainly since I was a kid. 123 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:47,949 Mary Glendenning had been horribly beaten. 124 00:06:47,991 --> 00:06:50,618 And the 911 recording was heart-rending. 125 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,370 She was terrified. 126 00:06:52,412 --> 00:06:53,955 But Mary's alive. 127 00:06:53,997 --> 00:06:56,541 She can give some testimony, talking to the police. 128 00:06:56,583 --> 00:06:58,585 And very quickly, 129 00:06:58,626 --> 00:07:01,004 Allan Legere is the main suspect. 130 00:07:01,046 --> 00:07:04,049 If you lived in Miramichi, you knew who Allan Legere was. 131 00:07:04,090 --> 00:07:07,010 He was bad news. Everybody knew he was bad news. 132 00:07:07,052 --> 00:07:10,096 * * 133 00:07:10,138 --> 00:07:12,724 He was always in trouble with the law 134 00:07:12,766 --> 00:07:15,101 for some reason or other. 135 00:07:15,143 --> 00:07:17,937 But he was the kind of guy that would tie two cats' tails 136 00:07:17,979 --> 00:07:20,857 together and then throw them over a wire, over a line, 137 00:07:20,899 --> 00:07:22,692 you know, and let them hang there. 138 00:07:22,734 --> 00:07:26,654 He had always been a twisted person. 139 00:07:26,696 --> 00:07:29,157 He was bright. He was a machinist. 140 00:07:29,199 --> 00:07:30,450 That's not an easy job. 141 00:07:30,492 --> 00:07:33,787 And really muscular and fearless-- 142 00:07:33,828 --> 00:07:36,122 so he was quite willing to sort of 143 00:07:36,164 --> 00:07:39,042 impose himself physically on people from a very young age. 144 00:07:39,084 --> 00:07:42,504 Certainly, the community was terrified of him. 145 00:07:42,545 --> 00:07:44,964 - Years before the Glendenning murder, 146 00:07:45,006 --> 00:07:46,549 he was writing to us all the time. 147 00:07:46,591 --> 00:07:47,967 And I would respond. 148 00:07:48,009 --> 00:07:51,012 So he wrote a letter to the paper 149 00:07:51,054 --> 00:07:53,139 about how people were such sheep, 150 00:07:53,181 --> 00:07:55,642 and he would rather be a pirate than a sheep. 151 00:07:55,684 --> 00:07:58,353 And I responded, 152 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:00,897 saying the people who supported their community, 153 00:08:00,939 --> 00:08:03,650 they were the heroes, not the pirates. 154 00:08:03,692 --> 00:08:08,822 So those were my initial interactions with him. 155 00:08:12,075 --> 00:08:14,661 - So police officers believed Allan Legere 156 00:08:14,703 --> 00:08:16,579 was looking for the quick score. 157 00:08:16,621 --> 00:08:17,997 He walks into that house, 158 00:08:18,039 --> 00:08:20,792 and he has an elderly couple with money in the house, 159 00:08:20,834 --> 00:08:22,502 and he has complete control. 160 00:08:22,544 --> 00:08:24,546 And he just went wild. 161 00:08:27,048 --> 00:08:28,883 He's beating on this man. 162 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:31,094 He's demanding the combination to the safe. 163 00:08:31,136 --> 00:08:32,554 She's trying to open the safe, 164 00:08:32,595 --> 00:08:34,848 but he's beating her and hitting her in the head. 165 00:08:34,889 --> 00:08:37,726 He just went berserk. 166 00:08:37,767 --> 00:08:39,728 And it was rough. 167 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:47,777 Fortunately, Allan Legere is pulled in 168 00:08:47,819 --> 00:08:49,279 within a couple of days. 169 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,365 And the community goes, whew, thank heavens. 170 00:08:52,407 --> 00:08:55,118 These cases, they go to trial relatively quickly. 171 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,288 So I turned to our crime reporter, Bonnie Sweeney, 172 00:08:58,329 --> 00:09:00,665 and said, here's what we're going to do. 173 00:09:00,707 --> 00:09:02,876 We're going to cover this like a transcript. 174 00:09:02,917 --> 00:09:04,711 You're going to take down every word said 175 00:09:04,753 --> 00:09:06,796 in that courtroom, everything that you see. 176 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:08,381 [typewriter clacking] 177 00:09:08,423 --> 00:09:09,883 - They just called a recess. 178 00:09:09,924 --> 00:09:11,217 - These are all the transcripts? 179 00:09:11,259 --> 00:09:13,053 - Yeah. - Hey. 180 00:09:13,094 --> 00:09:15,013 - Oh, thank you. 181 00:09:15,055 --> 00:09:17,182 - Do you want anything waiting for you when you get back? 182 00:09:17,223 --> 00:09:20,060 - Just the biggest cup of coffee you can imagine. 183 00:09:20,101 --> 00:09:22,645 - Our coverage was selling a lot of newspapers. 184 00:09:22,687 --> 00:09:25,273 There was a gas station 400 yards 185 00:09:25,315 --> 00:09:27,150 from where our printing press was. 186 00:09:27,192 --> 00:09:28,526 It was the first place that got the papers every night. 187 00:09:28,568 --> 00:09:29,736 People knew that. 188 00:09:29,778 --> 00:09:32,697 One night, there were 125 people 189 00:09:32,739 --> 00:09:35,116 at the gas station waiting to get their copy. 190 00:09:36,576 --> 00:09:39,079 - This is how you're keeping up with "The New York Times"? 191 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,372 [whistles] 192 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:43,041 - It's David versus Goliath. 193 00:09:43,083 --> 00:09:46,503 - You better hope Legere ends up behind bars. 194 00:09:46,544 --> 00:09:48,588 Or he'll be coming for you. 195 00:09:48,630 --> 00:09:51,007 [tense music] 196 00:09:51,049 --> 00:09:53,718 - Allan Legere decided that he didn't like the report, 197 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:55,845 saying the community is against me 198 00:09:55,887 --> 00:09:58,139 and this isn't fair. 199 00:09:58,181 --> 00:10:00,141 Legere knew my name and who I was. 200 00:10:00,183 --> 00:10:01,893 And I'm singled out as the person 201 00:10:01,935 --> 00:10:03,978 who's responsible for it. 202 00:10:05,397 --> 00:10:09,317 Suddenly, my wife and I became aware that 203 00:10:09,359 --> 00:10:11,861 our personal safety was at stake. 204 00:10:15,824 --> 00:10:18,201 The case goes to the jury. 205 00:10:18,243 --> 00:10:20,912 Very quickly, they come to a verdict. 206 00:10:20,954 --> 00:10:23,039 And the verdict is guilty. 207 00:10:23,081 --> 00:10:24,499 He'll eventually get life, 208 00:10:24,541 --> 00:10:26,418 which is automatic with second-degree murder. 209 00:10:26,459 --> 00:10:28,837 And it's over, right? 210 00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:34,968 You could see the community sort of give a sigh of relief. 211 00:10:35,010 --> 00:10:38,138 After being afraid of Allan Legere, 212 00:10:38,179 --> 00:10:40,974 finally, we're gonna be safe from this guy. 213 00:10:41,016 --> 00:10:42,809 The community can forget about it, 214 00:10:42,851 --> 00:10:44,477 which is exactly what the community did. 215 00:10:44,519 --> 00:10:49,441 And Allan Legere vanishes from the public's awareness. 216 00:10:49,482 --> 00:10:52,444 He was buried in a maximum security prison... 217 00:10:55,071 --> 00:10:56,865 They thought, forever. 218 00:10:56,906 --> 00:11:04,039 * * 219 00:11:06,249 --> 00:11:09,044 [birds chirping] 220 00:11:09,085 --> 00:11:12,213 [typewriter clacking] 221 00:11:20,930 --> 00:11:22,640 - Hard to believe just six months ago, 222 00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:25,810 we were scooping "The New York Times." 223 00:11:29,064 --> 00:11:30,315 I don't want another murderer. 224 00:11:30,357 --> 00:11:32,817 But I could use some goddamn news. 225 00:11:32,859 --> 00:11:35,695 [phone ringing] 226 00:11:35,737 --> 00:11:37,739 - Miramichi, how can I-- 227 00:11:40,158 --> 00:11:41,534 What? 228 00:11:41,576 --> 00:11:43,828 [tense music] 229 00:11:43,870 --> 00:11:46,539 It's my husband. He's on the police scanner. 230 00:11:46,581 --> 00:11:49,250 - Tell Kenny to hold the phone up to the scanner. 231 00:11:49,292 --> 00:11:51,044 - OK. 232 00:11:52,587 --> 00:11:54,089 [beep] 233 00:11:54,130 --> 00:11:56,925 - Hospital's in lockdown. Teams on each floor now. 234 00:11:59,844 --> 00:12:02,263 Suspect is armed. He's dangerous. 235 00:12:02,305 --> 00:12:04,057 [radio static] 236 00:12:04,099 --> 00:12:05,558 - Dispatch, I've lost visual. 237 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,353 Suspect last seen fleeing the building. 238 00:12:08,395 --> 00:12:10,563 [radio static] 239 00:12:10,605 --> 00:12:13,817 [upbeat music playing over radio] 240 00:12:13,858 --> 00:12:15,735 [buzzer blares] 241 00:12:15,777 --> 00:12:18,321 - We interrupt this program for an urgent news bulletin. 242 00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:19,906 Please be on the lookout for-- 243 00:12:19,948 --> 00:12:23,326 [radio changing stations] 244 00:12:23,368 --> 00:12:25,036 - [screams] [car horn blares] 245 00:12:27,497 --> 00:12:29,290 [gasps] 246 00:12:30,917 --> 00:12:33,837 [car door dinging] 247 00:12:33,878 --> 00:12:41,011 * * 248 00:13:01,322 --> 00:13:03,241 [seat belt clicks] [screams] 249 00:13:03,283 --> 00:13:04,451 - Drive! 250 00:13:04,492 --> 00:13:06,911 - [whimpering] 251 00:13:06,953 --> 00:13:08,747 [engine turns over] 252 00:13:08,788 --> 00:13:12,542 * * 253 00:13:12,584 --> 00:13:15,378 - The escaped convict, it's Allan Legere. 254 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,841 - You'll think he'll come back to Miramichi? 255 00:13:19,883 --> 00:13:22,469 - If he's smart, 256 00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:25,889 he'll get as far away from here as he can. 257 00:13:25,930 --> 00:13:33,063 * * 258 00:13:46,701 --> 00:13:49,662 [soft dramatic music] 259 00:13:49,704 --> 00:13:53,333 * * 260 00:13:53,375 --> 00:13:55,543 - Allan Legere was convicted of murdering 261 00:13:55,585 --> 00:13:59,714 a shopkeeper in Black River Bridge, New Brunswick in 1986. 262 00:13:59,756 --> 00:14:02,384 Three years later, he escaped from prison. 263 00:14:04,302 --> 00:14:06,930 - A predator like Legere was looking for an opening, 264 00:14:06,971 --> 00:14:08,473 and he saw one. 265 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,518 He starts poking at his ear to create an infection 266 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:13,853 so that he has to go to a hospital about 100 miles away 267 00:14:13,895 --> 00:14:16,064 in Moncton once or twice. 268 00:14:16,106 --> 00:14:17,774 He took some pieces off his television 269 00:14:17,816 --> 00:14:20,985 and fashioned a homemade key. 270 00:14:21,027 --> 00:14:24,197 He shoves it up his rectum to hide it. 271 00:14:24,239 --> 00:14:25,657 They allow him to go in the bathroom 272 00:14:25,699 --> 00:14:27,534 with the door mostly closed. 273 00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,578 The next thing you know, Legere bursts out of the bathroom. 274 00:14:30,620 --> 00:14:32,414 Cuffs are gone. 275 00:14:32,455 --> 00:14:35,208 Explodes past the first officer, 276 00:14:35,250 --> 00:14:37,585 explodes past the second one, who all he can do, 277 00:14:37,627 --> 00:14:40,547 as he gets close to him, is he sprays with the pepper spray. 278 00:14:40,588 --> 00:14:42,048 Well, that doesn't work in the back of the head of a guy 279 00:14:42,090 --> 00:14:43,508 who's running away from you. 280 00:14:49,097 --> 00:14:50,682 [tense music] 281 00:14:50,724 --> 00:14:53,101 I knew I had a target on my back. 282 00:14:53,143 --> 00:14:54,477 The community was sort of, 283 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:56,604 I think, unconsciously holding its breath, 284 00:14:56,646 --> 00:14:58,982 waiting for something really, really bad to happen. 285 00:14:59,024 --> 00:15:06,114 * * 286 00:15:11,202 --> 00:15:13,621 [pounding on door] 287 00:15:13,663 --> 00:15:16,583 [lock clicking] 288 00:15:19,627 --> 00:15:21,629 [pounding continues] 289 00:15:27,761 --> 00:15:29,888 [pounding intensifies] 290 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:33,475 [tense music] 291 00:15:33,516 --> 00:15:38,021 * * 292 00:15:38,063 --> 00:15:40,774 [pounding continues] 293 00:15:40,815 --> 00:15:42,984 [banging] 294 00:15:44,194 --> 00:15:47,447 [doorknob rattling] 295 00:15:55,205 --> 00:15:56,748 - Oh, geez. 296 00:15:56,790 --> 00:15:58,166 - I'm sorry, Annie. 297 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:00,335 I'm such a klutz. 298 00:16:00,377 --> 00:16:03,505 Oh, I brought you a nice salad. 299 00:16:03,546 --> 00:16:06,257 [bag rustling] 300 00:16:06,299 --> 00:16:09,010 I'll put it in the kitchen. 301 00:16:13,348 --> 00:16:16,643 - You know, Annie Flam, she's like 76. 302 00:16:16,685 --> 00:16:19,020 She was basically everyone's Jewish grandmother-- 303 00:16:19,062 --> 00:16:22,649 older house, right downtown, 304 00:16:22,691 --> 00:16:25,985 two minutes away from the fire station and the police station. 305 00:16:26,027 --> 00:16:27,862 Annie and her sister-in-law 306 00:16:27,904 --> 00:16:29,864 were blithely going on with their lives. 307 00:16:29,906 --> 00:16:32,826 [foreboding music] 308 00:16:32,867 --> 00:16:38,456 * * 309 00:16:38,498 --> 00:16:41,918 [knocking] 310 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:43,962 - Someone at the door? 311 00:16:44,004 --> 00:16:45,922 Annie? 312 00:16:45,964 --> 00:16:48,967 [knocking] 313 00:16:49,009 --> 00:16:52,262 Who would visit at this hour? 314 00:16:52,303 --> 00:16:54,139 [muffled door clicks] 315 00:16:54,180 --> 00:16:57,517 Annie? 316 00:16:57,559 --> 00:16:58,852 [muffled thud] 317 00:16:58,893 --> 00:17:05,817 * * 318 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:29,674 - [groaning and grunting] 319 00:17:33,178 --> 00:17:36,681 - [grunting] - [groaning] 320 00:17:36,723 --> 00:17:38,224 - [winces] 321 00:17:38,266 --> 00:17:40,143 [dramatic music] 322 00:17:40,185 --> 00:17:41,853 [screams] 323 00:17:41,895 --> 00:17:44,022 [bone cracks] [shrieks] 324 00:17:44,064 --> 00:17:47,233 [crying] 325 00:17:48,193 --> 00:17:51,154 [grunting] 326 00:17:51,196 --> 00:17:52,947 - [grunts] 327 00:17:52,989 --> 00:17:55,909 [ominous music] 328 00:17:55,950 --> 00:18:03,124 * * 329 00:18:12,676 --> 00:18:15,178 [dog barking] 330 00:18:15,220 --> 00:18:18,932 [somber music] 331 00:18:18,973 --> 00:18:25,313 * * 332 00:18:31,945 --> 00:18:34,864 - [panting] 333 00:18:50,922 --> 00:18:52,841 - [whimpers] 334 00:18:58,138 --> 00:18:59,347 [crying] 335 00:18:59,389 --> 00:19:03,101 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 336 00:19:03,143 --> 00:19:05,061 Shh. 337 00:19:05,103 --> 00:19:07,731 No. 338 00:19:07,772 --> 00:19:09,232 You stay in bed, OK? 339 00:19:09,274 --> 00:19:11,818 - [whimpering] 340 00:19:11,860 --> 00:19:14,821 - Shh. OK. 341 00:19:14,863 --> 00:19:21,786 * * 342 00:19:31,713 --> 00:19:33,715 [grunts] 343 00:19:33,757 --> 00:19:40,680 * * 344 00:19:46,061 --> 00:19:48,563 [sighs] 345 00:19:51,024 --> 00:19:53,943 [panting] 346 00:20:04,954 --> 00:20:07,999 Mm. Mm. 347 00:20:11,086 --> 00:20:18,259 * * 348 00:20:24,808 --> 00:20:26,851 - [crying softly] 349 00:20:37,821 --> 00:20:40,115 [whimpers] 350 00:20:40,156 --> 00:20:43,118 [tense music] 351 00:20:43,159 --> 00:20:50,291 * * 352 00:20:55,797 --> 00:20:59,342 [groaning] 353 00:21:01,011 --> 00:21:04,389 - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 354 00:21:04,431 --> 00:21:06,266 Stay here. 355 00:21:06,307 --> 00:21:07,934 - OK. - OK? 356 00:21:07,976 --> 00:21:10,395 - OK. - OK. 357 00:21:21,239 --> 00:21:22,866 [canister rattling] 358 00:21:27,203 --> 00:21:28,747 [canister thuds] 359 00:21:33,043 --> 00:21:34,919 [lighter clicks] 360 00:21:34,961 --> 00:21:36,796 * * 361 00:21:36,838 --> 00:21:38,256 - [coughs] 362 00:21:38,298 --> 00:21:44,929 * * 363 00:22:01,905 --> 00:22:04,866 [flames crackling] 364 00:22:04,908 --> 00:22:07,869 [dramatic music] 365 00:22:07,911 --> 00:22:14,834 * * 366 00:22:31,059 --> 00:22:33,978 - [coughing] 367 00:22:36,773 --> 00:22:38,983 [groans] 368 00:22:39,025 --> 00:22:41,986 [coughing] 369 00:22:42,028 --> 00:22:43,863 [tense music] 370 00:22:43,905 --> 00:22:46,199 [grunts] 371 00:22:46,241 --> 00:22:49,202 [whimpering] 372 00:22:49,244 --> 00:22:55,750 * * 373 00:22:55,792 --> 00:22:58,586 [coughs] 374 00:22:58,628 --> 00:23:05,885 * * 375 00:23:06,094 --> 00:23:09,764 [sobbing] 376 00:23:17,939 --> 00:23:20,817 - Two sisters beaten, their home torched. 377 00:23:20,859 --> 00:23:24,446 - Annie Flam, 75, was beaten to death. 378 00:23:24,487 --> 00:23:28,033 Her sister-in-law was also beaten, but she survived. 379 00:23:29,576 --> 00:23:31,077 - It's a tragedy. 380 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:32,662 He'd taken his time. 381 00:23:32,704 --> 00:23:34,205 He'd killed Annie, then he'd come up the stairs. 382 00:23:34,247 --> 00:23:36,249 He knew that Nina was there. He'd sexually assaulted Nina. 383 00:23:36,291 --> 00:23:38,585 He tucks her into the bed like he'd tuck in a child, 384 00:23:38,626 --> 00:23:40,086 all firm in the bed. 385 00:23:40,128 --> 00:23:44,215 She didn't resist, which is probably why she survived. 386 00:23:44,257 --> 00:23:45,925 - I mean Annie Flam, for heaven's sake, 387 00:23:45,967 --> 00:23:48,094 she wouldn't have weighed 100 pounds. 388 00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:51,097 She was just a sweet, frail, little old lady. 389 00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:52,849 So the assault that he committed there 390 00:23:52,891 --> 00:23:56,436 and the murder he committed there were just so disgusting. 391 00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:58,271 [sighs] 392 00:23:58,313 --> 00:24:01,483 - That's the latest in a series of brutal attacks in the area. 393 00:24:01,524 --> 00:24:03,276 Nobody knows for sure who's behind them, 394 00:24:03,318 --> 00:24:07,113 but the number one suspect is a convicted murderer on the run. 395 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:09,616 - Everyone's favorite suspect is Allan Legere. 396 00:24:09,657 --> 00:24:12,410 He's a convicted killer who was serving a life sentence 397 00:24:12,452 --> 00:24:14,621 for the brutal murder in 1986 398 00:24:14,662 --> 00:24:17,082 of an elderly Miramichi storekeeper. 399 00:24:18,750 --> 00:24:20,627 - At the time, I had a column every week. 400 00:24:20,669 --> 00:24:22,671 So I was commenting on everything 401 00:24:22,712 --> 00:24:25,715 that was going on with Legere, 402 00:24:25,757 --> 00:24:27,759 never in his favor, of course. 403 00:24:27,801 --> 00:24:32,097 So nobody likes it when you cover their crimes. 404 00:24:36,267 --> 00:24:40,522 - Here are all of the alleged Legere sightings today. 405 00:24:46,111 --> 00:24:47,987 - He's becoming a damn boogeyman. 406 00:24:51,825 --> 00:24:54,035 - There was a fire at my house. 407 00:24:55,704 --> 00:24:58,748 [indistinct radio chatter] 408 00:25:00,291 --> 00:25:02,002 Honey, are you OK? 409 00:25:02,043 --> 00:25:03,169 One second. 410 00:25:03,211 --> 00:25:04,671 What happened? 411 00:25:04,713 --> 00:25:07,841 Mr. Cadogan, your house was burned throughout. 412 00:25:07,882 --> 00:25:10,969 Your wife was lucky she wasn't inside. 413 00:25:11,011 --> 00:25:13,471 - Legere? 414 00:25:13,513 --> 00:25:16,099 - Certainly what she thinks, Sir. 415 00:25:20,562 --> 00:25:22,689 - You did this to us. 416 00:25:22,731 --> 00:25:24,524 You taunted him with your paper. 417 00:25:24,566 --> 00:25:26,317 What did you think was gonna happen? 418 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,862 - Honey. - Shame on you. 419 00:25:28,903 --> 00:25:30,655 - Honey! 420 00:25:30,697 --> 00:25:33,366 [door clicks, beeps] 421 00:25:33,408 --> 00:25:34,534 [door slams] 422 00:25:34,576 --> 00:25:36,494 [keys jangling] 423 00:25:36,536 --> 00:25:39,080 [engine revving, gear cranking] 424 00:25:39,122 --> 00:25:46,087 * * 425 00:25:53,094 --> 00:25:55,722 - The fire was set in the middle of the bed 426 00:25:55,764 --> 00:25:57,015 in the master bedroom. 427 00:25:57,057 --> 00:25:58,808 And that was a bit of a pattern. 428 00:25:58,850 --> 00:26:02,354 That had happened in several other homes in the area. 429 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:05,940 Legere was targeting people that he tangled with. 430 00:26:05,982 --> 00:26:09,027 And frankly, at that point, I did get nervous, 431 00:26:09,069 --> 00:26:11,988 because I was one of his prime contacts. 432 00:26:12,030 --> 00:26:15,575 And he had no interest, of course, in a fair fight. 433 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:17,744 My marriage was breaking up. 434 00:26:17,786 --> 00:26:19,245 And with Legere on the loose, 435 00:26:19,287 --> 00:26:22,374 she had no interest in being there and left. 436 00:26:22,415 --> 00:26:25,126 [sighs] 437 00:26:27,545 --> 00:26:28,922 - When the fire happened, 438 00:26:28,963 --> 00:26:31,091 you know, I was scared to death. 439 00:26:31,132 --> 00:26:33,176 It's like you were in the herd 440 00:26:33,218 --> 00:26:35,637 and the lion was circling around the outside. 441 00:26:35,679 --> 00:26:38,932 And you didn't want to be the one that the lion singled out. 442 00:26:38,973 --> 00:26:42,227 And it was just a matter of time. 443 00:26:46,731 --> 00:26:47,941 - Allan Legere is the subject 444 00:26:47,982 --> 00:26:49,401 of countless whispered conversations 445 00:26:49,442 --> 00:26:50,902 every day in this town. 446 00:26:50,944 --> 00:26:53,822 - On account of his criminal records, people have a fear. 447 00:26:53,863 --> 00:26:55,865 Just the name Allan Legere 448 00:26:55,907 --> 00:26:57,826 sends a fear through the people. 449 00:26:57,867 --> 00:27:02,914 * * 450 00:27:12,549 --> 00:27:14,092 - More sightings-- 451 00:27:14,134 --> 00:27:17,512 a severed head found on a doorstep, 452 00:27:17,554 --> 00:27:20,473 a man and his wife were bludgeoned with his own shotgun, 453 00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:22,308 and a number of people who say they wake up 454 00:27:22,350 --> 00:27:23,977 with some guy just standing over them. 455 00:27:24,019 --> 00:27:26,396 - Sounds like Legere. 456 00:27:26,438 --> 00:27:29,357 [sirens wailing] 457 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,194 - At a home that would have been 458 00:27:33,236 --> 00:27:36,990 a 60-second walk from my office, 459 00:27:37,032 --> 00:27:39,659 Donna Daughney and Linda Daughney-- 460 00:27:39,701 --> 00:27:41,578 women minding their own business-- 461 00:27:41,619 --> 00:27:44,539 - Two sisters who lived here were viciously beaten 462 00:27:44,581 --> 00:27:47,625 and sexually assaulted, their home set on fire. 463 00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:51,004 [sirens wailing] 464 00:27:51,046 --> 00:27:53,006 - Just like in the Flam case, 465 00:27:53,048 --> 00:27:56,509 Legere, he tucked her into the bed. 466 00:27:56,551 --> 00:28:02,390 * * 467 00:28:02,432 --> 00:28:03,600 [sirens wailing] 468 00:28:03,641 --> 00:28:07,395 It just gets worse and worse and worse. 469 00:28:07,437 --> 00:28:09,439 [dramatic music] 470 00:28:15,945 --> 00:28:17,364 - It was awful. 471 00:28:17,405 --> 00:28:19,449 Linda would die from smoke inhalation. 472 00:28:19,491 --> 00:28:21,993 I've seen the autopsy photos. You can see the soot line 473 00:28:22,035 --> 00:28:23,870 running down through her trachea. 474 00:28:23,912 --> 00:28:26,289 [tense music] 475 00:28:26,331 --> 00:28:30,627 - It upsets me as a parent, a citizen, and a police officer 476 00:28:30,669 --> 00:28:34,047 to see human lives taken like this. 477 00:28:34,089 --> 00:28:35,674 - It's becoming a too-familiar scene 478 00:28:35,715 --> 00:28:38,760 in this part of Northeastern New Brunswick. 479 00:28:38,802 --> 00:28:40,512 More than a dozen RCMP officers 480 00:28:40,553 --> 00:28:42,972 are looking into the killing of two sisters. 481 00:28:43,014 --> 00:28:47,102 * * 482 00:28:47,143 --> 00:28:49,562 - This is the moment when, for the community, 483 00:28:49,604 --> 00:28:50,939 we now accepted that 484 00:28:50,980 --> 00:28:53,274 Allan Legere was a serial killer, 485 00:28:53,316 --> 00:28:55,360 that we were the hunting ground, and we were the hunted. 486 00:28:55,402 --> 00:28:57,612 Every indication is that we have someone here 487 00:28:57,654 --> 00:28:59,489 who kills for kicks. 488 00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:01,908 - Rick MacLean, editor of the local paper, 489 00:29:01,950 --> 00:29:03,993 says people are terrified. 490 00:29:04,035 --> 00:29:05,829 - People from national television stations, 491 00:29:05,870 --> 00:29:07,872 they're all coming to town looking for someone to talk to. 492 00:29:07,914 --> 00:29:11,001 And I became sort of the media face of this thing. 493 00:29:11,042 --> 00:29:13,044 I was the person that you were seeing 494 00:29:13,086 --> 00:29:16,423 on television and on the radio, and we didn't know this, 495 00:29:16,464 --> 00:29:18,633 but Allan Legere had a radio and he was listening. 496 00:29:18,675 --> 00:29:20,301 I'm sure people are thinking now 497 00:29:20,343 --> 00:29:22,887 that unless they catch him, it will happen again. 498 00:29:22,929 --> 00:29:24,389 [tense music] 499 00:29:24,431 --> 00:29:25,974 I used to joke with Fred Ferguson, 500 00:29:26,016 --> 00:29:28,601 the crown prosecutor who put him away for the Glendenning case, 501 00:29:28,643 --> 00:29:32,188 Legere ever gets out, I just have to run faster than you, 502 00:29:32,230 --> 00:29:35,400 because, you know, there's an assumption Legere had a list 503 00:29:35,442 --> 00:29:37,360 and Fred was at the top of the list. 504 00:29:37,402 --> 00:29:39,112 And in the most serious voice 505 00:29:39,154 --> 00:29:42,407 I've ever heard him use, Fred went, no. 506 00:29:42,449 --> 00:29:43,950 No, it's you. 507 00:29:43,992 --> 00:29:46,619 It's not me. 508 00:29:46,661 --> 00:29:49,456 All this attention became a sore point with my wife. 509 00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:52,917 At one point, she sat me down and basically said, 510 00:29:52,959 --> 00:29:55,295 you know, what about us? 511 00:29:59,799 --> 00:30:01,259 - [gasps] 512 00:30:01,301 --> 00:30:04,137 - Hey, I was just coming to give you a kiss. 513 00:30:04,179 --> 00:30:06,514 - I'm sorry for the less-than-warm reception. 514 00:30:06,556 --> 00:30:08,933 - No, it's OK. 515 00:30:08,975 --> 00:30:11,519 How's our little one doing? 516 00:30:11,561 --> 00:30:14,773 [soft dramatic music] 517 00:30:14,814 --> 00:30:18,651 - Do you think we're putting a target on our backs? 518 00:30:18,693 --> 00:30:25,867 * * 519 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,749 - About two weeks later, the 28th of October, 520 00:30:32,791 --> 00:30:34,501 everything completely exploded. 521 00:30:34,542 --> 00:30:35,710 All hell breaks loose. 522 00:30:35,752 --> 00:30:37,629 [dramatic music] 523 00:30:37,671 --> 00:30:39,673 There's someone being chased around 524 00:30:39,714 --> 00:30:41,675 the town of Chatham. 525 00:30:41,716 --> 00:30:43,802 Everybody in the community is listening to the scanners, 526 00:30:43,843 --> 00:30:45,720 listening to all this happen in real time. 527 00:30:45,762 --> 00:30:48,223 [indistinct radio chatter] 528 00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:49,849 Police officer said, surrender! 529 00:30:49,891 --> 00:30:51,976 The man spins, fires a shotgun. 530 00:30:52,018 --> 00:30:53,019 [gunshot] 531 00:30:53,061 --> 00:30:54,604 The man--it was Legere-- 532 00:30:54,646 --> 00:30:57,399 turned to him and, in a completely calm voice, 533 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,193 said, if you don't leave me alone, 534 00:31:00,235 --> 00:31:02,070 I'm going to fucking kill you. 535 00:31:02,112 --> 00:31:05,240 And Legere escapes. 536 00:31:05,281 --> 00:31:08,201 The RCMP released a news release 537 00:31:08,243 --> 00:31:10,787 saying there was a shot fired 538 00:31:10,829 --> 00:31:13,915 and we basically don't have anything else to say. 539 00:31:13,957 --> 00:31:15,709 - He's outfoxed his pursuers, 540 00:31:15,750 --> 00:31:18,837 and that now he's even made the Mounties cry uncle. 541 00:31:18,878 --> 00:31:21,840 Neil Stairs, CBS News, Chatham. 542 00:31:21,881 --> 00:31:24,843 [tense music] 543 00:31:24,884 --> 00:31:27,804 * * 544 00:31:27,846 --> 00:31:29,389 - The community was furious. 545 00:31:29,431 --> 00:31:31,266 The community is afraid for its personal safety. 546 00:31:31,307 --> 00:31:33,351 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police won't tell us anything. 547 00:31:33,393 --> 00:31:34,686 I did something I've never done before 548 00:31:34,728 --> 00:31:36,021 and I've never done since. 549 00:31:36,062 --> 00:31:37,897 I wrote an editorial and put it on the front page 550 00:31:37,939 --> 00:31:39,065 of the newspaper. 551 00:31:39,107 --> 00:31:40,859 In that, I said, look. 552 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:42,694 You say you want our help. 553 00:31:42,736 --> 00:31:44,738 We are desperate to help. 554 00:31:44,779 --> 00:31:47,657 And yet, you're providing us with no information 555 00:31:47,699 --> 00:31:49,034 for our own personal safety. 556 00:31:49,075 --> 00:31:54,289 * * 557 00:31:54,330 --> 00:31:56,583 After this call to action, 558 00:31:56,624 --> 00:31:59,252 I could only hope that the police got ahold of Legere 559 00:31:59,294 --> 00:32:01,921 before Legere got a hold of me. 560 00:32:01,963 --> 00:32:04,924 [tense music] 561 00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:09,012 * * 562 00:32:09,054 --> 00:32:12,182 [wind howling] 563 00:32:20,231 --> 00:32:22,275 It was the 15th of November. 564 00:32:22,317 --> 00:32:24,819 Legere, he had been hiding for months. 565 00:32:24,861 --> 00:32:26,529 I was stopping at a gas station 566 00:32:26,571 --> 00:32:28,239 to get some gas on the way into work. 567 00:32:28,281 --> 00:32:31,659 And a police officer pulled up, jumped out of his car, 568 00:32:31,701 --> 00:32:35,747 and confirmed Legere apparently was bottled up in a small area 569 00:32:35,789 --> 00:32:37,457 of Chatham Head, near the church, 570 00:32:37,499 --> 00:32:38,958 near where my grandmother lived. 571 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,460 They had him boxed in. 572 00:32:40,502 --> 00:32:42,504 He couldn't get out, and they couldn't find him. 573 00:32:42,545 --> 00:32:49,219 * * 574 00:33:08,029 --> 00:33:09,614 [faucet squeaks] 575 00:33:18,665 --> 00:33:21,626 [ominous music] 576 00:33:21,668 --> 00:33:28,591 * * 577 00:33:32,887 --> 00:33:34,514 - [gasps] 578 00:33:34,556 --> 00:33:35,432 [grunting] 579 00:33:35,473 --> 00:33:38,351 [blade swishing] [yelps] 580 00:33:43,690 --> 00:33:44,858 - [grunting] 581 00:33:44,899 --> 00:33:51,823 * * 582 00:34:00,749 --> 00:34:03,668 [somber music] 583 00:34:03,710 --> 00:34:07,047 * * 584 00:34:07,088 --> 00:34:09,257 - At 7:05, 585 00:34:09,299 --> 00:34:12,677 Father James Smith, Roman Catholic priest, 586 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,596 was five minutes late for his mass. 587 00:34:14,637 --> 00:34:17,140 And Father Smith was never late. 588 00:34:20,685 --> 00:34:25,315 There was blood everywhere, absolutely everywhere. 589 00:34:25,357 --> 00:34:28,526 He had slaughtered him. I've seen the photos. 590 00:34:29,944 --> 00:34:32,864 The floor was covered in blood. 591 00:34:32,906 --> 00:34:35,450 Blood splattered onto the ceiling. 592 00:34:35,492 --> 00:34:36,951 I didn't know you could do this. 593 00:34:36,993 --> 00:34:39,704 He had disconnected his face from his skull 594 00:34:39,746 --> 00:34:40,789 as if it was a mask. 595 00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:42,957 And it slid sideways on his face. 596 00:34:42,999 --> 00:34:46,711 He had--it was the most vicious of all the attacks. 597 00:34:49,589 --> 00:34:52,133 - First, an elderly woman, then two sisters, 598 00:34:52,175 --> 00:34:53,885 then a priest were murdered. 599 00:34:53,927 --> 00:34:56,471 - The mayor says people are afraid 600 00:34:56,513 --> 00:34:58,973 and they're arming themselves. 601 00:34:59,015 --> 00:35:01,768 - Some people have called me and said that, you know, 602 00:35:01,810 --> 00:35:06,815 that they're sleeping with a loaded gun, but... 603 00:35:06,856 --> 00:35:08,441 I wish they wouldn't. 604 00:35:08,483 --> 00:35:10,276 - You know, a lot of murder going on. 605 00:35:10,318 --> 00:35:12,529 And I think we have to do something about it. 606 00:35:12,570 --> 00:35:15,365 And we have to do it ourselves locally. 607 00:35:15,407 --> 00:35:18,576 People were certainly terrified. 608 00:35:18,618 --> 00:35:21,663 All kinds of things started to shut down. 609 00:35:21,705 --> 00:35:23,415 You know, people would not go out at night 610 00:35:23,456 --> 00:35:25,291 for anything, to shop. 611 00:35:25,333 --> 00:35:26,876 Halloween was canceled. 612 00:35:26,918 --> 00:35:28,545 Elderly people in town, 613 00:35:28,586 --> 00:35:32,632 many of them moved in with their adult children or left town. 614 00:35:32,674 --> 00:35:36,094 - You'd walk the streets, and it was like COVID. 615 00:35:36,136 --> 00:35:38,471 The streets were empty. 616 00:35:38,513 --> 00:35:40,432 Legere, he could be anywhere. 617 00:35:40,473 --> 00:35:42,225 It's just never going to end for us. 618 00:35:42,267 --> 00:35:43,643 It just keeps going on and on. 619 00:35:43,685 --> 00:35:45,729 We're never going to feel safe again. 620 00:35:45,770 --> 00:35:49,315 [tense music] 621 00:35:49,357 --> 00:35:55,697 * * 622 00:35:56,990 --> 00:35:58,533 It's winter, and we finally had 623 00:35:58,575 --> 00:36:01,745 our first snow storm of the year. 624 00:36:01,786 --> 00:36:03,580 Allan Legere had been hiding 625 00:36:03,621 --> 00:36:05,206 at a string of things that sort of looked like teepees 626 00:36:05,248 --> 00:36:09,627 and makeshift shelters on the outskirts of the community. 627 00:36:09,669 --> 00:36:11,880 But now it's November. It's freezing cold. 628 00:36:11,921 --> 00:36:15,091 And there's snow. So you can't hide snow prints. 629 00:36:15,133 --> 00:36:17,594 So he had been forced to flee. 630 00:36:19,054 --> 00:36:23,058 And that night, Allan Legere gets ahold of a cab. 631 00:36:23,099 --> 00:36:26,728 And Legere points a gun at him and says, start driving. 632 00:36:26,770 --> 00:36:28,229 But it's starting to snow. 633 00:36:28,271 --> 00:36:30,648 And the cab swerves in the middle of this highway, 634 00:36:30,690 --> 00:36:32,108 ends up in the ditch. 635 00:36:32,150 --> 00:36:33,485 A good Samaritan stops. 636 00:36:33,526 --> 00:36:35,570 It was an off-duty police officer, a woman, 637 00:36:35,612 --> 00:36:37,489 who had stopped to help them. 638 00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:40,241 Now he has two hostages. 639 00:36:40,283 --> 00:36:41,743 Finally, he's running out of gas. 640 00:36:41,785 --> 00:36:43,620 So he pulls into a small town to get gas. 641 00:36:43,661 --> 00:36:45,455 He pumps in the gas, 642 00:36:45,497 --> 00:36:47,540 dashes in, throws a 20 on the counter, 643 00:36:47,582 --> 00:36:49,626 comes running back out, and the car is disappearing, 644 00:36:49,668 --> 00:36:52,337 sort of swishing this way as it's going. 645 00:36:52,379 --> 00:36:54,714 Legere calmly walks over to a tractor trailer, 646 00:36:54,756 --> 00:36:56,591 an 18-wheeler, points at the driver, 647 00:36:56,633 --> 00:36:58,385 Brian Golding, says, I'm Allan Legere. 648 00:36:58,426 --> 00:37:00,053 Get in the truck. 649 00:37:00,095 --> 00:37:03,765 And now he's got an 18-wheeler, and he forces him to go north. 650 00:37:03,807 --> 00:37:06,309 [sirens wailing] 651 00:37:06,351 --> 00:37:09,229 Transport truck on that road doesn't make any sense. 652 00:37:09,270 --> 00:37:14,109 Everybody was so afraid, people called the police. 653 00:37:14,150 --> 00:37:16,236 The police stopped the truck. 654 00:37:16,277 --> 00:37:19,823 [indistinct radio chatter] 655 00:37:24,994 --> 00:37:27,414 - It's him. It's him. 656 00:37:27,455 --> 00:37:29,290 - Drop your weapon! Get out of the truck! 657 00:37:29,332 --> 00:37:31,626 [tense music] 658 00:37:31,668 --> 00:37:33,461 [bone cracks] [woman screams] 659 00:37:33,503 --> 00:37:35,130 - [screams] 660 00:37:35,171 --> 00:37:36,506 [lighter clicks] 661 00:37:40,343 --> 00:37:42,178 [flames whooshing] 662 00:37:42,220 --> 00:37:43,638 - Ah! - [groans] 663 00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:45,432 [blade swishes] [woman screams] 664 00:37:46,808 --> 00:37:48,518 - [exhales] 665 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:51,312 * * 666 00:37:51,354 --> 00:37:54,149 [shallow breathing] 667 00:37:54,190 --> 00:38:01,364 * * 668 00:38:16,129 --> 00:38:19,132 [dramatic music] 669 00:38:19,174 --> 00:38:22,093 [singer vocalizing] 670 00:38:22,135 --> 00:38:29,059 * * 671 00:38:35,565 --> 00:38:38,485 [tense music] 672 00:38:38,526 --> 00:38:45,658 * * 673 00:38:51,706 --> 00:38:53,583 [indistinct radio chatter] 674 00:38:56,795 --> 00:38:58,963 - On the Miramichi, they've hoped and prayed 675 00:38:59,005 --> 00:39:00,215 for this moment. 676 00:39:00,256 --> 00:39:01,800 Allan Legere, a suspect 677 00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:04,427 in four recent murders, in handcuffs-- 678 00:39:04,469 --> 00:39:06,596 soon to be behind bars again. 679 00:39:06,638 --> 00:39:08,515 The man they believe was terrorizing them 680 00:39:08,556 --> 00:39:10,308 has been finally caught. 681 00:39:10,350 --> 00:39:12,769 - RCMP nabbed Legere. 682 00:39:12,811 --> 00:39:15,438 He had a sawed off rifle loaded and cocked, 683 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:16,773 but he didn't resist. 684 00:39:16,815 --> 00:39:18,733 - I rushed to the newsroom. 685 00:39:18,775 --> 00:39:20,819 The phone rings, and it's Dave Cadogan. 686 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:22,779 And he sort of rhymes off, 687 00:39:22,821 --> 00:39:24,197 we need to do this, we need to do this. 688 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:26,199 And I said, we did that, Dave. And we did that, Dave. 689 00:39:26,241 --> 00:39:27,867 And finally, I said, David, 690 00:39:27,909 --> 00:39:29,869 we have to have a special edition. 691 00:39:29,911 --> 00:39:31,371 And I'll never forget what he said. 692 00:39:31,413 --> 00:39:33,998 He went, fuck, yes! 693 00:39:41,089 --> 00:39:44,843 People were out in the streets. 694 00:39:44,884 --> 00:39:47,429 The church bells were ringing. 695 00:39:47,470 --> 00:39:50,598 [bells ringing] 696 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,143 - In town, the bells rang out, 697 00:39:53,184 --> 00:39:55,270 calling people to a special mass to celebrate 698 00:39:55,311 --> 00:39:56,771 what the priest called, 699 00:39:56,813 --> 00:39:58,857 "the liberation of the Miramichi." 700 00:39:58,898 --> 00:40:00,275 The mayor of Newcastle says 701 00:40:00,316 --> 00:40:01,985 a load has been lifted from his shoulders. 702 00:40:02,027 --> 00:40:05,155 - And on the streets, it's completely different today. 703 00:40:05,196 --> 00:40:08,116 Everybody's in a different mood altogether. 704 00:40:08,158 --> 00:40:09,701 It's almost unbelievable, 705 00:40:09,743 --> 00:40:11,703 the change that has happened since yesterday. 706 00:40:11,745 --> 00:40:15,290 [soft music] 707 00:40:15,331 --> 00:40:18,960 - We can put our machetes and everything away. 708 00:40:19,002 --> 00:40:20,086 [laughs] 709 00:40:20,128 --> 00:40:22,005 - The best thing that ever happened. 710 00:40:22,047 --> 00:40:24,049 Make it a good Christmas, won't it? 711 00:40:24,090 --> 00:40:26,718 - Legere would be charged with four more counts of murder, 712 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:28,595 but this time, it's first-degree murder. 713 00:40:28,636 --> 00:40:30,555 The sentence is still life, 714 00:40:30,597 --> 00:40:33,808 but now the opportunity for parole goes from 18 years-- 715 00:40:33,850 --> 00:40:38,188 the Glendenning case-- to 25 years. 716 00:40:38,229 --> 00:40:41,816 - Many people believe that Allan Legere will eventually 717 00:40:41,858 --> 00:40:44,235 get out of prison, that he will escape, 718 00:40:44,277 --> 00:40:46,112 because he's done it before, 719 00:40:46,154 --> 00:40:48,865 because he's always been quite the con man. 720 00:40:48,907 --> 00:40:50,742 And they believe he will-- 721 00:40:50,784 --> 00:40:52,369 if he does get out-- that he will kill again. 722 00:40:52,410 --> 00:40:55,663 [tense music] 723 00:40:55,705 --> 00:40:57,916 * * 724 00:40:57,957 --> 00:40:59,751 - Very quickly after he was back in prison, 725 00:40:59,793 --> 00:41:02,170 he was starting to plan his escape again. 726 00:41:02,212 --> 00:41:04,547 I get a phone call from my wife. 727 00:41:06,383 --> 00:41:07,676 I'm at work. 728 00:41:07,717 --> 00:41:10,845 She's at home with our one-year-old. 729 00:41:10,887 --> 00:41:14,766 My wife was just frantic on the phone. 730 00:41:14,808 --> 00:41:17,686 I said, what's wrong? 731 00:41:20,855 --> 00:41:23,775 [suspenseful music] 732 00:41:23,817 --> 00:41:30,949 * * 733 00:41:50,051 --> 00:41:53,096 - "Hi, Dear. 734 00:41:53,138 --> 00:41:55,390 "How are you? 735 00:41:55,432 --> 00:41:58,768 I had such a nice time last summer seeing you there." 736 00:41:58,810 --> 00:42:00,729 [foreboding music] 737 00:42:00,770 --> 00:42:02,772 "Nice place." 738 00:42:02,814 --> 00:42:04,566 * * 739 00:42:04,607 --> 00:42:06,151 [breathing shakily] 740 00:42:06,192 --> 00:42:11,239 "You're such a lovely wife, and I just love that new baby." 741 00:42:11,281 --> 00:42:13,825 [baby babbling] 742 00:42:13,867 --> 00:42:17,912 "So quiet and bouncy. 743 00:42:17,954 --> 00:42:20,081 "I know you spend a lot of time by yourself, 744 00:42:20,123 --> 00:42:25,587 "so I know you won't mind me visiting you next year. 745 00:42:25,628 --> 00:42:30,675 Until then, I'll see you again." 746 00:42:33,553 --> 00:42:37,390 - The police said it's Legere. 747 00:42:37,432 --> 00:42:41,269 He tells you that he knows things about you, 748 00:42:41,311 --> 00:42:44,939 that he understands where you live, 749 00:42:44,981 --> 00:42:48,485 understands that I have a little girl. 750 00:42:48,526 --> 00:42:52,113 Allan Legere's first parole hearing, 751 00:42:52,155 --> 00:42:54,449 it was about a two-hour process. 752 00:42:54,491 --> 00:42:58,453 And I'm told he spent about 20 minutes talking about me. 753 00:42:58,495 --> 00:43:00,413 It's personal. 754 00:43:03,166 --> 00:43:04,668 I've written a series of headlines 755 00:43:04,709 --> 00:43:06,336 about Allan Legere over the years. 756 00:43:06,378 --> 00:43:08,004 When Allan Legere escaped, 757 00:43:08,046 --> 00:43:11,966 I had a photo of him that filled the front page of the newspaper. 758 00:43:12,008 --> 00:43:13,259 It was the only thing on the paper. 759 00:43:13,301 --> 00:43:16,513 And it said, "escaped" right across it. 760 00:43:16,554 --> 00:43:20,725 When Allan Legere was caught, same photo, same size-- 761 00:43:20,767 --> 00:43:22,977 it said "caught." 762 00:43:23,019 --> 00:43:25,230 And when Allan Legere was found guilty, 763 00:43:25,271 --> 00:43:29,192 same photo, and it said "guilty." 764 00:43:29,234 --> 00:43:30,985 I don't run a newspaper anymore, 765 00:43:31,027 --> 00:43:33,154 but I'm waiting for one last headline-- 766 00:43:33,196 --> 00:43:35,949 "dead." 767 00:43:35,990 --> 00:43:38,910 [eerie, dramatic music] 768 00:43:38,952 --> 00:43:46,084 * *