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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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 allée au cinéma avec des amis. Son corps a été retrouvé plusieurs heures plus tard dans un parking, soigneusement placé en position assise avec un message gravé dans son ventre. Marcotte se souvient de chaque détail de cette nuit et du lendemain : sa sœur ne rentrait pas…
Quebexico – Why Theresa Allore’s murder was never solved
There is no simple answer to this question, so once-a-week for 24 weeks I wrote a chapter to explain the complex relationship that evolved between the police and organized crime in Quebec, which resulted in so many murdered women being treated like collateral damage. Part I Quebexico Folie à deux CECO The…
Québexique – Pourquoi le meurtre de Theresa Allore n’a jamais été résolu
Il n’y a pas de réponse simple à cette question, alors une fois par semaine pendant 24 semaines, j’ai écrit un chapitre pour expliquer la relation complexe qui s’est développée entre la police et le crime organisé au Québec, qui a fait que tant de femmes assassinées ont été traitées comme des…
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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, and holds a Masters in Public Administration with a specialization in Justice Administration from North Carolina State University.
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 lives in the United States, though he spends significant time in Quebec. 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.