March 31 Gatineau, Qué. Roger […]

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1980-03-31

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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.

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Gatineau

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Pat Burns Michel Madore Alain McMurtie Roger Rinfret

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Yvon Thivierge, "L'Église et le meurtre d'un homosexuel," Le Berdache, no. 13 (1980), p. 7.Yvon Thivierge, "La dimension homosexuelle est écartée de son procès," Le Berdache, no. 18 (1981), pp. 16–17 Christina Spencer, "Murder Charge Dropped," Ottawa Citizen, weekend ed., 7 February 1981, p. 2 Bob Marleau, "Two Shattered Lives—Linked in Murder," Ottawa Citizen, 18 March 1981, p. 45 Bob Marleau, "Priest's Murderer Nailed by Gay He Tried to Kill," Ottawa Citizen, 18 March 1981, p. 1 "Life for Killing Priest," Globe and Mail, weekend ed., 24 January 1981, p. 13 David Garmaise, "Quebec Gay Priest Brutally Murdered," Body Politic, no. 65 (1980), p. 13 Janet Cotton, "Murder and the Cathedral," Maclean's, 4 August 1980, p. 18

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Alain McMurtie

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