#patrice alegre

Patrice Alègre

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Serial rapist
Number of victims: 5 +
Date of murders: 1989 - 1997
Date of arrest: September 5, 1997
Date of birth: June 20, 1968
Victims profile: Valérie Tarriote, 22 / Laure Martinet, 19 / Martine Matias, 29 / Mireille Normand, 36 / Isabelle Chicherie, 31
Method of murder: Strangulation
Location: France
Status: Sentenced to life imprisonment on February 21, 2002

Alegre grew up in Saint-Genies-Bellevue and was born to Roland Alegre, a policeman that would often beat him and his alcoholic mother Michelle.

His mother was only 17 years old when she gave birth to Alegre and showed him little to no affection, unlike his brother who was born seven years later.

Alegre had difficulty in school and was sent to live with his grandmother. During this time Alegre’s life of crime begins with thefts, drug dealing and his first sexual assault at age 16.

Alegre would eventually marry and have a daughter but after twelve years his wife Cecile would leave him taking his daughter away from him in 1995. By this point Alegre had already killed two women.

Alegre killed his first victim Valerie Tariote on February 21st 1989 and would go on to kill at least 5 more women before finally be arrested on September 5th 1997.

Alegre knew all his victims. They were his neighbor’s, women he met where he was working; friends of friends and all of them were brunette.

Alegre would kill when he was drunk after the women would refuse to have sex with him. He would beat and rape them before strangling them to death. He would also light their homes on fire before leaving the scene.

During the trial, his father said he was not violent, and that he’s never beaten anyone. Alegre replied, he’s lying as usual and I only have one regret, that I didn’t kill him. Although I promised my mother I would.