Death of Theresa Allore explained

Theresa Allore
Disappeared Place:Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada
Body Discovered:April 13, 1979, Compton, Quebec
Death Date:November 3, 1978 (aged 19)
Nationality:Canadian
Known For:Unsolved death for

Theresa Allore was a Canadian college student who disappeared on Friday, November 3, 1978, from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.[1] She was later found dead under suspicious circumstances. Allore's brother later started the true crime podcast Who Killed Theresa.[2] The podcast started out as a personal exploration of the Allore's death but later expanded its focus to cover other unsolved crimes.[3] After discovering links between the circumstances of Allore's case and the close resemblance to the recent deaths of two other girls, Manon Dubé and Louise Camirand,[4] [5] Allore's brother theorized that the three deaths may have been committed by the same person.

Circumstances

Allore was a 19-year-old student at Champlain College Lennoxville. Her lodgings were in Compton, a fifteen-minute drive south. On November 3, 1978, she disappeared from the campus.[6] Five months later, on April 13, 1979, her body was discovered in a small body of water approximately one kilometre from her dormitory residence in Compton, Quebec. She was wearing only her underwear.[7] Upon her disappearance, police initially suggested she was a runaway. When her body was discovered, police then suggested that she was the possible victim of a drug overdose, perhaps with the assistance of fellow college students.[8]

Developments

In the summer of 2002, the family of Allore enlisted the support of an investigative reporter and friend, Patricia Pearson, who produced a series of articles for Canada's National Post newspaper that presented evidence that she was a victim of murder, and that her death was possibly linked to multiple other unsolved local cases.[9] The theory was supported by geographic profiler and then FBI consultant, Kim Rossmo, who suggested a serial sexual predator may have been operating in the Quebec region in the late 1970s and advised police to investigate the deaths as a series.[9] [10]

Since 2002, Theresa's brother, John Allore, who produced the podcast Who Killed Theresa?,[11] continued the investigation, identifying dozens of other unsolved murders and disappearances from 1971 to 1981 which may be associated.[12] He successfully lobbied for the creation of a Sûreté du Québec cold case unit, which was created in 2004.[13] Beginning in 2018, John Allore started to focus on other Quebec cases from the 1970s through the present era, cases that further suggest systemic failures in Quebec criminal justice.[14] On January 17, 2019, the Montreal police, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, announced it was creating its own cold case squad, in large part due to the lobbying efforts of John Allore.[15] In November 2018, John Allore was awarded the Senate of Canada's Sesquicentennial Medal for his work in victims advocacy for "recognition of your valuable service to the nation."[16] Allore and Pearson's book Wish You Were Here about the murder was published by Penguin Random House Canada in September 2020.[17]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Bayly . Joanne . April 16, 2020 . Quebec cold cases: Families of 8 dead women call for public inquiry . en-US . CBC . June 18, 2023.
  2. Stephane Giroux, "John Allore, ex-Montrealer who sought for decades to solve sister's murder, dies in bike crash". CTV News Montreal, March 31, 2023.
  3. Dan Spector, "Former Montrealer John Allore remembered as tireless, generous advocate for crime victims". Global News, March 31, 2023.
  4. Book: Rossmo, D. Kim . Criminal Investigative Failures . 2008-12-15 . CRC Press . 978-1-4200-4752-3 . en . 2022-10-25 . 2022-10-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221025175407/https://books.google.com/books?id=HoWMab7CHrYC&dq=%22manon+dub%C3%A9%22+1978&pg=PA235 . live.
  5. News: 2021-01-03 . La quête d'une vie après un meurtre impuni . 2022-11-19 . La Presse . fr . Bérubé . Nicolas . 2022-11-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221119184309/https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2021-01-03/la-quete-d-une-vie-apres-un-meurtre-impuni.php . live.
  6. News: Fudakowska . Anna . November 16, 1978 . Allore Search Hits Dead End . The Sherbrooke Record . June 18, 2023.
  7. News: April 17, 1979 . Dad Identifies Dead Co-Ed . The Sherbrooke Record . June 18, 2023.
  8. News: McCully . Sharon . August 19, 2002 . Family Seeks Closure in Daughter's Murder . The Sherbrooke Record . June 18, 2023.
  9. News: Pearson . Patricia . August 10, 2002 . Who Killed Theresa? . National Post . dead . August 10, 2010 . July 4, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100704100318/http://theresaallore.com/wkt-original-story/ .
  10. Web site: Bayly. Joanne. Quebec cold cases: Families of 8 dead women call for public inquiry. CBC News. 12 March 2018. April 18, 2016.
  11. News: Bérubé . Nicolas . December 29, 2018 . Meurtres non résolus: "Je ne fais plus confiance aux enquêteurs" . fr . La Presse .
  12. Web site: Tripp . Rob . April 6, 2016 . Unsolved murders blamed on "incompetent" Quebec police . dead . CanCrime . Rob Tripp . June 12, 2016 . June 10, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160610140226/http://www.cancrime.com/2016/04/06/unsolved-murders-blamed-on-incompetent-quebec-police/ .
  13. Web site: Project | Cold cases - Sûreté du Québec . dead . June 14, 2021 . dossiersnonresolus.com . June 14, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210614235431/https://www.dossiersnonresolus.com/en/project.html?projets .
  14. Book: Allore . John . Pearson . Patricia . Wish you were here : a murdered girl, a brother's quest and the hunt for a serial killer . Random House Canada . 2020 . en . 1147876404 . 14 June 2021.
  15. News: Renaud . Daniel . January 17, 2019 . Important redéploiement d'effectifs au SPVM . fr . La Presse . January 17, 2019.
  16. Gravenor . Kristian . January 2019 . Shining The Light On Cold Cases . dead . Police Advocates Journal . 5 . 17–20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190131102455/http://digital.imedianorthside.com/t/260868-paj-issue-5-na . 2019-01-31 . 2019-01-29.
  17. Book: Allore, John . Wish you were here : a murdered girl, a brother's quest and the hunt for a serial killer . September 22, 2020 . Pearson, Patricia . 978-0-7352-7716-8 . Toronto . 1147876404.

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