Léopold Dion
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Léopold Dion | |
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Born | Deceased | February 25, 1920
Conviction(s) | Capital murder |
Criminal penalty | Death; commuted to life imprisonment |
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Victims | 4 |
Span of crimes | April – May 1963 |
Country | Canada |
Date apprehended | May 27, 1963 |
Léopold Dion (February 25, 1920 – 17 November 1972) was a Canadian sex offender and serial killer who raped 21 boys, killing four; he was active in Quebec in 1963. He was nicknamed the "Monster of Pont-Rouge" (le monstre de Pont-Rouge).
Crimes
His first sexual assault, which also involved an attempted murder, was against a young woman from Pont-Rouge. Léopold Dion and his brother raped and stabbed the woman on the railway track linking the Rang Petit-Capsa (a street) to the village of Pont-Rouge. They left her for dead, but she survived, albeit with both physical and psychological injuries.
Dion sexually abused 21 boys, killing four. He lured his victims by posing as a photographer.
His first murder victim was 12-year-old Guy Luckenuck, from Kénogami, Quebec, who was in Quebec City that day for clarinet lessons. They traveled together every week to take music lessons at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec in Québec City. Dion lured the boy by taking a series of snapshots with an old camera that had no film before claiming to want to continue elsewhere. He drove the boy into the country, where, in a remote spot, Dion then strangled him, and then buried him.[1]
On 5 May 1963, Dion crossed paths with eight-year-old Alain Carrier and 10-year-old Michel Morel. He used the same ploy to lure them into his car, driving them to a run-down building in
On 26 May 1963, he met 13-year-old Pierre Marquis, who was also taken in by the fake photographer's promises. They were a couple of paces from a dune, the same one that had become Guy Luckenuck's grave a bit more than a month earlier. Once again, Dion asked his victim to pose naked. The child complied, but when Dion tried to assault him, he fought back before succumbing to the assault. Dion strangled Marquis.
Arrest
Dion, who was then on conditional release for raping a schoolteacher several years earlier, was arrested the day after his last murder. It was a description of Dion from another boy whom he had waylaid, but who had gotten away from him, that led to the police apprehending Dion. Once in prison, Dion held out for a month before he finally admitted to his crimes in detail to his interrogators. He then led investigators to the spot where he had buried the children's bodies.[1]
Trial
Criminal lawyer
Death
On 17 November 1972, Dion was stabbed to death by a fellow inmate named Normand Champagne (also known as "Lawrence d'Arabie", or Lawrence of Arabia) who was later found not guilty of this crime by reason of insanity.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c [1] Réseau Canoë
- ^ "Bertrand Bertrand Avocats". Archived from the original on 2009-03-26. Retrieved 2009-02-28. Guy Bertrand's own account
- ^ http://www.erudit.org/revue/crimino/1976/v9/n1-2/017057ar.pdf "Littérature carcérale québécoise", issue of "Érudit"