The Surete du Quebec has issued an arrest warrant for a convicted murderer who has escaped from a minimum security federal institution.
Robert Gaudette, 55, is at large after escaping the minimum security Montée St. François Institution Monday night.
Gaudette was found guilty of murder on May 3, 2002 and later sentenced to life sentence with a chance at parole this year.
Gaudette, then aged 41, strangled his wife Cindy Bouchard and dumped her body in a garbage bin in an industrial park in their home town of Anjou on April 27, 2000.
The couple cleaned offices in the area. Police later found Bouchard's body in a garbage truck.
Gaudette initially claimed that his wife had been kidnapped by a gang acting on a gambling debt but changed his story several times.
He later confessed to the murder but a judge ruled that evidence out, as Gaudette had not been read his rights concerning the murder rap and because Gaudette had told investigators said several times that he did not want to talk.
Gaudette stands 5'11" (1.86 m) and weighs 189 lbs (86 kg). He has blonde hair and light coloured eyes. Police are asking anybody who sees him to call 911.
Last September René Charlebois, a biker convicted of murder, also escaped the same Laval prison, as did murderer Gilles Meloche one year prior to that.
