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March 31 Gatineau, Qué. Roger […]
When
1980-03-31
Description
March 31 Gatineau, Qué. Roger Rinfret, a popular priest in the town of Masson, Québec, was found murdered in a room in the Ritz Motel. He had been stabbed multiple times by one of two youths he had taken to the hotel for sex. Alain McMurtie, twenty, pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder and was sentenced on January 23, 1981, to life in prison with possibility of parole after ten years. Eighteen-year-old Michel Madore had the charge of first-degree murder dropped after he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of armed robbery with violence and received a sentence of five years. Detective Pat Burns was one of the two policemen who cracked the case; he later became famous as a National Hockey League head coach between 1988 and 2004.
