Quebec's all-time most-evil criminal

This is Leopold Dion who was the Clifford Olson of Quebec in the 60s, killing four boys and sexually molesting 21 in all.* Dion was the poster boy for parole reform, as he had been deemed cured of his rapist pedophilia impulses after being paroled following a pair of sex attack convictions.
   Dion, who was born in 1920, was what we would now call a Duplessis Orphan. He was with the nuns until age 11 as they dealt with his tuberculosis. Once cured he returned home, however his parents had separated four days before and returned him to the orphanage.   He was busted at 17 for trying to murder a prostitute and sentenced to life imprisonment for rape when he turned 20.
   He raped a woman near the Plains of Abraham at age 19, and his brother went along with it, raping the woman too, but preventing Leopold from killing her. Both went to jail. Jailers recommended Dion never be paroled.
   He was a good prisoner at St. Vincent de Paul in Montreal and was rewarded with his release in 1956.
 After a few days he was returned on a conviction of gross indecency and was now sent to Kingston Penetentiary.
   The 220-pound Dion would lure his victims from Quebec City to his cottage at nearby Pont Rouge by pretending to be a photographer for a major American magazine. Before killing his victims he would make them say a prayer just before he offed them.
   "These two damn hands of mine have killed four little saints," he said at his trial. "What happened to me today is not my fault. I am 43 years old and have not yet lived."
   Dion was defended by young lawyer Guy Bertrand, who later became a minor Quebec celebrity. Dr. Camille Laurin testified that Dion was "a monster with a human face."
   The jury took only two minutes to find him criminally responsible for his crimes.
   Dion was sentenced to death in 1963 and tried to escape by taking the prison warden Alphonse Letourneau, 64, hostage by holding a letter opener to him and stabbing him a few times.
   Letourneau survived the stabbings but Dion was only stopped when he was smacked on the head with guns by two prison cops on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City where the prison was located.
   He was slated to be hanged June 25, 1965, but he was not. Premier Lesage and Justice Minister Claude Wagner complained about the commutation.
   He was constantly mocked, taunted and jeered by his fellow inmates.
   He bit a guard on the thigh and allegedly ran into a cement wall.
   This all ended on November 17, 1972 when fellow inmate Normand Champagne murdered him by smacking him on the head with an iron bar. Champagne was declared insane and wrote a book.
*Dion murdered: Guy Luckenuik, 12, Alain Carrier, 8, Michel Morel, 10 and Pierre Marquis, 13.