WHO KILLED THERESA?
Life isn’t fair. Justice is blind… and some cops aren’t smart and dedicated like on television.
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The Model – The Murder of Marie-Josée Saint-Antoine
This is a story about the puzzle of celebrity, excess and indulgence, the lure of centers of power like Montreal and New York City. It has a Life in the Fast Lane quality to it, with shades of Looking for Mr. Goodbar and The Eyes of Laura Mars. This is the murder of Marie-Josée Saint-Antoine, a Montreal fashion model who was stabbed repeatedly in her Gramercy Park apartment in 1982 after an evening of disco dancing in a New York club. A lot has been said about this case, most of it recently. People may say, “Oh that case, we…
22 years later, Quebec provincial police to charge man with murder of Guylaine Potvin
47-year-old man expected to appear in court Thursday The Canadian Press · Posted: Oct 12, 2022 12:52 PM The Quebec provincial police’s four-year-old expanded cold case squad logged its first victory on Thursday after a man was formally charged in a 22-year-old murder and a separate, violent sexual assault. Marc-André Grenon, 47, is facing charges of…
L’équipe élargie de cold case de la Sûreté du Québec n’a pas encore résolu un meurtre
Morgan Lowrie, Presse canadienne, le 21 juillet 2022. MONTRÉAL — Plus de 50 ans plus tard, Isabel Marcotte ressent encore chaque jour la douleur du meurtre de sa sœur. Le 12 septembre 1969, Teresa Martin, 14 ans, est descendue de l’autobus près de chez elle dans le nord de Montréal après être…
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WISH YOU WERE HERE
A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s Quest and the Hunt for a Serial Killer
As compelling as Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark or James Ellroy’s My Dark Places, this is the story of a brother’s lifelong determination to find the truth about his sister’s death, a police force that was ignoring the cases of missing and murdered women, and, to the surprise of everyone involved, a previously undiscovered serial killer.
In the fall of 1978 teenager Theresa Allore went missing near Sherbrooke, Quebec. She wasn’t seen again until the spring thaw revealed her body in a creek only a few kilometers away. Shrugging off her death as a result of 1970s drug culture, police didn’t investigate.
Patricia Pearson started dating Theresa’s brother John during the aftermath of Theresa’s death. Though the two teens would go their separate ways, the family’s grief, obsession with justice and desire for the truth never left Patricia. Little did she know, the shockwaves of Theresa’s death would return to her life repeatedly over the next forty years.
In 2001, John had just moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his wife and young children, when the cops came to the door. They had determined that a young girl had been murdered and buried in the basement. John wondered: If these cops could look for this young girl, why had nobody even tried to find out what happened to Theresa? Unable to rest without closure, he reached out to Patricia, by now an accomplished crime journalist and author, and together they found answers far bigger and more alarming than they could have imagined–and a legacy of violence that refused to end.
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About John Allore
John Allore has worked in victims advocacy since 2002. His website, Who Killed Theresa is one of the first crime blogs on the internet, which began as an investigation into the unsolved murder of his sister, Theresa Allore.
John is a graduate of Trinity College, the University of Toronto. He was the first graduate of North Carolina State University’s Justice Administration program, and holds a Masters in Public Administration.
In 2017 John started the podcast, Who Killed Theresa which focuses on unsolved murders in Quebec, as well as other issues of criminal and social justice. In 2018, John was awarded the Senate of Canada’s Sesquicentennial Medal for his work in victims advocacy. He has written for a variety of publications including Canada’s National Post newspaper, The Montreal Gazette, The Sherbrooke Record, and Quillette.
John currently lives in the United States. Wish You Were Here, about unsolved murders in Canada was published by Penguin Random House in September 2020. He is currently writing his second book, That Case Is Not Here to be published in 2024.