Serial killer Camille Cleroux dies in Abbotsford prison
The Ottawa man bludgeoned two of his wives to death with a rock and killed his neighbour
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Camille Cleroux, a convicted serial killer who bludgeoned two of his wives to death with a rock and killed his neighbour, has died in a B.C. prison.
The Correctional Service of Canada says Cleroux, 67, died, apparently of natural causes, on Sunday at Pacific Institution in Abbotsford.
In 2012, the Ottawa man admitted to killing ex-wives Lise Roy and Jean Rock and neighbour Paula Leclair, 64, over a two-decade period beginning in 1990.
He was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in the killing of Leclair and two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of his former wives.
Cleroux confessed he killed Leclair, his 64-year-old neighbour, in 2010 because she refused to trade apartments with him.
He told police he wanted the apartment because it was bigger and “had a better view.”
Court was told Cleroux forced the woman at knifepoint to a shallow grave, stabbed her in the back with a knife and then bashed her head with a rock.
She was his third known murder victim.
Roy’s body was found in 2010 buried in the yard of the couple’s former Ottawa home, while Rock’s remains were pulled from Ottawa’s Rideau Canal in 2006 but remained unidentified until 2012.
— With Postmedia News files