Yves Trudeau

Yves Trudeau , nicknamed " Apache " and " The Mad Bumper " (* 1946 ; † 2008 ) was a Canadian felon. He was a longtime member of the Hells Angels and ran one of Canada's first charters until 1984 . He was also a contract killer and pleaded guilty to murdering 43 people in 1985. However, because of his statements as a police informant , he only had to serve seven years of his life imprisonment and was released in 1994 with a new identity. He was convicted again in 2004 of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.

Life

Trudeau worked for the chemical company Canadian Industries Limited in the 1960s . He founded the motorcycle club The Popeyes , which developed into one of the largest clubs in the country and had ties to the Canadian mafia . In 1977 The Popeyes got the offer to become an official charter of the Hells Angels. The "North Chapter" that emerged from the Popeyes was the first charter to be founded in Canada and the 31st charter ever.

Trudeau developed a penchant for ruthlessness as early as the early 1970s. He committed his first murder on a thief who stole a Popeyes motorcycle. He executed the man before the eyes of his gang. In the following years he worked as a hit man for the criminal underworld of Montreal and for the Hells Angels. The Hells Angels' North Charter fell out of favor in the mid-1980s because other charters felt it was inadequately passing on its drug income. On March 24, 1984 the so-called " Lennoxville Massacre " occurred , in which a large part of the charter was killed. Trudeau only survived because he was in a detox clinic at the time of his execution. He became a police informant for fear of retaliation. While doing this, he admitted 43 murders he committed in the 1970s and 1980s. His information resulted in long prison sentences for 43 other Hells Angels. Trudeau himself was sentenced to life imprisonment. However, his informant contract reduced his sentence and was released on parole in 1994. He got into the witness protection program and was given a new identity.

After his release, he took several jobs. From 2000 he lived on welfare and unemployment benefits. In 2004, Trudeau was arrested again and pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a then 13-year-old boy on six occasions and over a period of four years. He was sentenced to four more years in prison. From 2006 to 2007 he participated in a program for sex offenders. He was found to have cancer and was transferred to Archambault Prison in Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines because it was able to provide medical care. In 2008 he was released from prison, seriously ill, in order to be able to spend his old age in freedom.

meaning

With his 43 murders, Trudeau is considered one of the most dangerous men in Canada's rocker scene . According to a judge, Trudeau killed more people than the entire Canadian army in the Second Gulf War . He is followed by Gerald Gallant , also a Canadian hit man. This killed 27 people during the rocker war in the Canadian province of Quebec .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Gazette: He killed at least 43, now ex-biker faces death . Canada.com. July 16, 2008. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 25, 2014. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jerry Langton: Fallen Angel. The Unlikely Rise of Walter Stadnick and the Canadian Hells Angels . John Wiley & Sons, Mississauga / Ontario 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-15714-5 , pp. 33 .
3. ↑ Hells Angels hit man 'Apache' Trudeau up on sex charges. CBC News , March 25, 2004, accessed March 28, 2012 . 
4. ↑ CTV .ca News Staff: Ex-biker hitman imprisoned for child molesting. (No longer available online.) CTV.ca, July 14, 2004, archived from the original on June 11, 2011 ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Biker informant sentenced in sex assault. CBC News , July 14, 2004, accessed March 28, 2012 . 
6. ↑ He killed at least 43, now ex-biker faces death. (No longer available online.) Canada.com, July 16, 2008, archived from the original on November 6, 2012 ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ CTV.ca News Staff: Ex-biker hitman imprisoned for child molesting. (No longer available online.) CP24.com, July 14, 2004, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 28, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Canadian contract killer confesses to 27 murders. Die Welt , April 1, 2009, accessed March 28, 2012 .