EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — East Hartford police announced Thursday that they have made an arrest in a homicide case from 1973.

George Legere , 77, currently serving time in MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, was charged in the brutal murder of 21-year-old Janet Couture in October 1973.

Couture was found stabbed to death in her Cannon Road home in East Hartford on Oct. 13, 1973. Couture was home alone when police said Legere entered the home through a window. Couture's death remained under investigation for over five decades.

Police said they had a major breakthrough in 2021 when the Avon Police arrested Legere for kidnapping a woman in a separate 1984 cold case. While Legere had also been an early suspect in Couture’s murder, insufficient evidence at that time prevented charges. T

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