Tuesday October 30th, 1990
Many people from New Brunswick remember Allan Legere as the “Monster of the Miramichi”.
What many people don’t remember is… somehow while he was the prime suspect in four brutal murders, he managed to convince a newspaper reporter from Nova Scotia to leave her family and marry him.
According to the article in the Times Transcript, 42 year old Allan Legere and 52 year old Caroline Norwood agreed to a prison wedding during a phone conversation on Thursday October 25th of that year.
This despite the fact that both Legere and Norwood were already married to other people at the time.
Norwood was quoted as saying she believed Legere was innocent.
She had visited him five times under the watchful eyes of guards at the Renous Maximum sercurity prison.
She said “People fall in love with people all the time, in and out of jail.” “I’m not questioning it, I’m not asking why, I’m just accepting it for what it is.”
The woman admitted there was no timeline for their prison nuptials as she anticipated it would take a few months for her to finalize divorce proceedings with her current husband.
Norwood met Legere at a hearing in Moncton where he was convicted of escaping custody, kidnapping and assault.
Norwood recalls “He told me one time that, if you look for good in him, that’s what you will find and perhaps that is what I did.”
During the 1990’s Allan Legere developed a frightening and complex image in New Brunswick.
Many believed he was a cold-blooded killer capable of the most extreme violence.
Others called him an intelligent, charismatic character with a reputation as a ladies man.
With the benefit of hind sight, it’s clear he was both….. or was he.
Less than a week later, Mr. Norwood, Caroline’s husband offered a quote to newspapers that would ultimate cool off this budding love affair.
Laforest Norwood wrote the Halifax Chronicle Herald to inform people that he convinced his wife to abandon the idea and the couple were going to the United States to get their thoughts love reorganized.
Allan Legere, the ultimate example of a “I can fix him boyfriend” and another true part of your heritage.
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