Léopold Dion

Léopold Dion (25 February 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 Dion had a lengthy criminal history starting when he was 17, when he was convicted of gross indecency and sentenced to four months in prison. In 1939, he was charged with attempted murder, but acquitted. In 1940, Dion was sentenced to life in prison and lashed after being convicted of raping a 33-year-old schoolteacher in Pont-Rouge. He was paroled in 1956, but had his parole revoked after being convicted of gross indecency in 1957. Dion was paroled again in 1962.

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.

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 Saint-Raymond-de-Portneuf. With the former, he pretended to play prisoner so that he could tie the boy up in the cottage. Once he had been overcome, Dion turned to the latter one, whom he led outside, whereupon he asked the child to take his clothes off. Dion then strangled him with a garrote, before going back inside to smother the other boy.

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). Champagne, who was serving a life sentence for non-capital murder, was found not guilty by reason of insanity.