Overview

• George Legere, 77, was found unresponsive Friday night at MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution in Suffield and was pronounced dead early Saturday at a local hospital, officials said.
• The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner lists the cause of death as pending, and the Connecticut Department of Correction and State Police are investigating.
• Legere was arrested on Sept. 24 and charged with murdering 21-year-old Janet Couture after an arrest warrant affidavit detailed a confession.
• Investigators say that confession followed a tip from another inmate who reported Legere had signed a written statement in July to be revealed after his death.
• Authorities linked Legere to the 1973 East Hartford homicide through DNA taken in 2019 while he was jailed in Massachusetts; he was serving a 25-year sentence for a separate 1984 kidnapping and sexual assault case.