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- NAME: Roy Fontaine
- OCCUPATION: Serial Killer
- BIRTH DATE: June 17, 1924
- DEATH DATE: September 16, 2002
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Glasgow, Scotland
- PLACE OF DEATH: Portsmouth, England
- Originally: Archibald Hall
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Serial killer Roy Fontaine, originally Archibald Hall, killed a former lover, his employers, an accomplice and another man in England in the 1970s.
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Fontaine attempted suicide several times while he was in custody. In 1999 wrote his autobiography, A Perfect Gentlemen and said that there was "a side of me, when aroused, that is cold and completely heartless." He died in 2002 in Kingston Prison at age 78.
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