Born: October 12, 1959
Murdered on: November 3, 1978
Body Discovered on: April 13, 1979
Location: Compton, Quebec, Canada
Theresa Allore was a nineteen-year-old student at Champlain College in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Compton, a fifteen-minute drive south. She disappeared from the campus on November 3, 1978. Five months later on April 13, 1979, her body was discovered in a small body of water approximately 1km from her dormitory residence in Compton, Quebec. She was wearing only her underwear. Upon her disappearance, law enforcement initially suggested she was a runaway. When her body was discovered they then suggested that she was the possible victim of a drug overdose and may have had the assistance of fellow college students.
In the summer of 2002, the Theresa’s family 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 several other unsolved local cases. The theory was supported by a geographic profiler and then FBI consultant named Kim Rossmo. Kim had 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. Since 2002, Theresa’s brother, John Allore, who produced the podcast ‘Who Killed Theresa?’, continued the investigation. He had identified dozens of other unsolved murders and disappearances from 1971 to 1981 which may be associated. He successfully lobbied for the creation of a Sûreté du Québec cold case unit, which was formed in 2004. Beginning in 2018, John started to focus on other Quebec cases from the 1970s through to the present, cases that further suggest systemic failures in Quebec criminal justice. On January 17, 2019 the Montreal police, the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal, announced it was assembling its own cold case squad, in large part due to the lobbying efforts of John Allore. In November 2018, John was awarded the Senate of Canada’s Sesquicentennial Medal for his work in victims advocacy for “recognition of your valuable service to the nation.” Allore and Pearson’s book Wish You Were Here about the murder was published by Penguin Random House Canada in September 2020.
For the podcast and case information, please visit:
Who Killed Theresa?
https://theresaallore.com/
The novel:
Wish You Were Here
A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s Quest and the Hunt for a Serial Killer
Written by: John Allore & Patricia Pearson
Available at: https://theresaallore.com/ & on Audible
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