CANADA Canada - Theresa Allore, 19, Lennoxville, QC, 3 Nov 1978

[Betty P]

Bumping for Theresa with this interesting comparison of her case, with the Hannah Graham case.
There is no connection between the cases at all, but, perhaps the shared similarities, might help point the direction to Theresa's killer.imo

http://theresaallore.com/2014/10/hannahgraham-morganharrington-investigations-whats-in-it-for-me/

He's absolutely right. These cases are very similar to his sister's and the other women in Sherbrooke/Lennoxville area. The Town and Gown issues, smaller police forces, tendency to downplay importance of missing women early in the investigation, weather/climate and the delays they can cause, etc. I wonder if LE's pursuit of Hannah Graham's disappearance could motivate the police in Sherbrooke to reconsider their theories and accept they may be successful if they reopen some of the old sexual assault and murder cases in their area?

 

[dotr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbt9zyUdpzQ

"Who Killed Theresa Allore Part 1 of 5
john allore"

 

[dotr]

Just throwing this out there fwiw, thinking of Therese's neatly folded clothing and the shoelaces, and somehow a cross-dresser and/or a hockey player comes to mind.

 

[Lexiintoronto]

Just throwing this out there fwiw, thinking of Therese's neatly folded clothing and the shoelaces, and somehow a cross-dresser and/or a hockey player comes to mind.

Your post reminded me of Kimberly Camm's murderer, Charles Boney, who took off her shoes and neatly placed her shoes at the scene. (He took the lives of her two children as well).

Boney had been arrested prior to the murders, and part of his crimes involved the theft of women's shoes.

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/camm-david.htm

 

[Snoopster]

Your post reminded me of Kimberly Camm's murderer, Charles Boney, who took off her shoes and neatly placed her shoes at the scene. (He took the lives of her two children as well).

Boney had been arrested prior to the murders, and part of his crimes involved the theft of women's shoes.

http://murderpedia.org/male.C/c/camm-david.htm

Two teenage female victims in London Ontario (as outlined in "Murder City" by Michael Arntfield (previously misspelled by me in Cedrika Provencher's thread as Arntfeld) were connected by shoes. Both of their shoes were found within meters of each other, even though the murders were several years apart. I wonder if the shoes were laced shoes.

 

[johnallore]

Index of related unsolved murders in Quebec in the 1970s

Alice Paré – Drummondville – le 26 Avril, 1971
Norma O’Brien et Debbie Fisher – Chateauguay – 1974-1975 (résolu / prévu pour le contexte)
Sharron Prior – Montréal / Longueuil – 1 Avril, 1975
Lise Choquette – East End Montréal / Laval – 20 Avril, 1975
Louise Camirand – Estrie – 25 Mars, 1977
La Victime Inconnue – Longueuil – 2 Avril, 1977
Jocelyne Houle – East End Montréal / Saint-Calixte – le 17 Avril, 1977
Johanne Danserault – Absent de Fabreville – le 14 Juin, 1977
Sylvie Doucet – Absent de East End Montréal – 27 Juin, 1977
Claudette Poirier – Drummondville – le 27 Juillet, 1977
Chantal Tremblay – Montréal-Nord / Rosemere – 29 Juillet, 1977
Johanne Dorion – Fabreville / Laval / Montréal-Nord – 29 Juillet, 1977
Elizabeth Bodzy – Absent de Laval – 30 Juillet, 1977
Hélène Monast – Chambly – 10 Septembre, 1977
Katherine Hawkes – Montréal-Nord – 20 Septembre, 1977
Denise Bazinet – East End Montréal / Saint Luc – le 23 Octobre, 1977
Manon Dube – Cantons de l’Est – le 27 Janvier, 1978
Lison Blais – East End Montréal – 3 Juin, 1978
Theresa Allore – Estrie – Novembre 3, 1978
Victime Inconnue 2 – Dorval, Montreal – June 2, 1979
Nicole Gaudreau, East End Montreal, le 13 Août, 1979
Tammy Leakey – Dorval, Montréal – 12 Mars, 1981

 

[johnallore]

MEURTRES NON RÉSOLUES ET DISPARITIONS AU QUÉBEC DANS LES ANNÉES 1970

Alice Paré – Drummondville – le 26 Avril, 1971
Norma O’Brien et Debbie Fisher – Chateauguay – 1974-1975 (résolu / prévu pour le contexte)
Sharron Prior – Montréal / Longueuil – 1 Avril, 1975
Lise Choquette – East End Montréal / Laval – 20 Avril, 1975
Louise Camirand – Estrie – 25 Mars, 1977
La Victime Inconnue – Longueuil – 2 Avril, 1977
Jocelyne Houle – East End Montréal / Saint-Calixte – le 17 Avril, 1977
Johanne Danserault – Absent de Fabreville – le 14 Juin, 1977
Sylvie Doucet – Absent de East End Montréal – 27 Juin, 1977
Claudette Poirier – Drummondville – le 27 Juillet, 1977
Chantal Tremblay – Montréal-Nord / Rosemere – 29 Juillet, 1977
Johanne Dorion – Fabreville / Laval / Montréal-Nord – 29 Juillet, 1977
Elizabeth Bodzy – Absent de Laval – 30 Juillet, 1977
Hélène Monast – Chambly – 10 Septembre, 1977
Katherine Hawkes – Montréal-Nord – 20 Septembre, 1977
Denise Bazinet – East End Montréal / Saint Luc – le 23 Octobre, 1977
Manon Dube – Cantons de l’Est – le 27 Janvier, 1978
Lison Blais – East End Montréal – 3 Juin, 1978
Theresa Allore – Estrie – Novembre 3, 1978
Victime Inconnue 2 – Dorval, Montreal – June 2, 1979
Nicole Gaudreau, East End Montreal, le 13 Août, 1979
Tammy Leakey – Dorval, Montréal – 12 Mars, 1981

 

[dotr]

Rbbm.
http://theresaallore.com/2016/03/theresa-allore-november-3-1978-we-found-a-shoe/

Shoes

Louise Camirand: March 1977: missing boots, strangled with her bootlace.
Helene Monast: Shoes by the body, possibly missing laces.
Katherine Hawkes: Shoes missing. Found 2 days later on a different street.
Denise Bazinet: One shoe on, the other not inventoried (missing?).
Theresa Allore: Chinese slippers never recovered.

 

[johnallore]

I did a podcast on these cases: http://www.cancrime.com/2016/04/06/unsolved-murders-blamed-on-incompetent-quebec-police/

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/theresa-allore-1978-murder-missing-1.3537960

The question of what happened to Theresa Allore has haunted her family since the 19-year-old, a student at Champlain College in Lennoxville, disappeared in November 1978...

Now, 38 years later, Quebec provincial police are re-examining her case...

So many years after Theresa Allore's disappearance, her brother is realistic. "The prospects of solving such an old cold case are slim, if you don't have evidence, if you don't have a confession, if you don't have a witness," he says.

 

[:+:MrTT:+:]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/theresa-allore-1978-murder-missing-1.3537960

This woman was found in water. Yet the autopsy i believe didn't show water in her lungs to show she breathed in water. She was dead before she was in the water.

 

[Tarik]

Two filmmakers, Ugo Fredette and Stéphan Parent (who already made a documentary and a movie about the disappearance of Cédrika Provencher) are doing a new documentary on a serie of unsolved murders and disappearances from the 1970's and 1980's which include Theresa : http://www.nordinfo.com/Culture/201...Deux-cineastes-a-la-recherche-de-meurtriers/1

 

[johnallore]

I have started a Who Killed Theresa? podcast. You can listen on iTunes, Soundcloud, Sticher, GooglePlay, etc...

We discuss many of Quebec unsolved cold cases from the 1970s including: Sharron Prior, Lise Choquette, Louise Camirand, Jocelyne Houle, Chantal Tremblay, Johanne Dorion, Hélène Monast, Katherine Hawkes, Denise Bazinet, Manon Dube, Lison Blais, Theresa Allore, Nicole Gaudreaux, Tammy Leakey, and two unidentified bodies of women.

First seven episodes are now streaming:

https://soundcloud.com/john-allore/who-killed-theresa-episode-1

 

[Snoopster]

I have started a Who Killed Theresa? podcast. You can listen on iTunes, Soundcloud, Sticher, GooglePlay, etc...

We discuss many of Quebec unsolved cold cases from the 1970s including: Sharron Prior, Lise Choquette, Louise Camirand, Jocelyne Houle, Chantal Tremblay, Johanne Dorion, Hélène Monast, Katherine Hawkes, Denise Bazinet, Manon Dube, Lison Blais, Theresa Allore, Nicole Gaudreaux, Tammy Leakey, and two unidentified bodies of women.

First seven episodes are now streaming:

https://soundcloud.com/john-allore/who-killed-theresa-episode-1

Thanks for letting us know John. I surely hope that this will contribute to finally solving who killed your sister.

I will definitely check out your podcast.

 

[dotr]

'Who killed Theresa?:' 40 years later, brother seeks answers in Quebec cold case
Morgan Lowrie / The Canadian PressAugust 18, 2018 rbbm.
"MONTREAL — John Allore last saw his 19-year-old sister Theresa on a foggy day in the fall of 1978, as she boarded a train in Saint John, N.B., to head home to Quebec after Thanksgiving weekend.

Allore, then 14, remembers giving her a Styx album to mark her 19th birthday before she headed back to Quebec's Eastern Townships, where she studied at Champlain College."

"Sometime around 2001, Allore began poring over police reports, piecing together his sister's last-known whereabouts on Nov. 3, 1978 — the last day she was seen alive.

That Friday, she told friends at school she planned to study and work on a book report.

She also made plans to meet some friends back at the residence at about 9 p.m. to listen to records, but never showed up, Allore chronicles on his website, "Who Killed Theresa?"
"He says many of the 20 or so cases listed on his website contain similar elements: nude or semi-nude bodies found outside, signs of strangulation, sexual assault and use of a vehicle.


After decades of amateur sleuthing, he's convinced that one or more serial killers were operating in the Montreal area in the 1970s — one of whom, he thinks, might have picked up his sister as she tried to hitchhike from the campus to her dormitory."

"While he originally focused on his website, Allore started a true-crime podcast in 2017 in the hopes of keeping the missing women in the public eye.

He's been slowly increasing his audience, with people tuning in from places such as Australia and Scandinavia."
Quebec provincial police announced earlier this year it was beefing up its cold-case team to nearly 30 from five, in order to apply modern investigative techniques to some 750 unsolved cases going back 50 years."

 

[dotr]

Also posted on this thread..
Sûreté duQuébec beefs up cold-case squad to crack unsolved deaths

 

[dotr]

Theresa Allore in the summer of 1978. John Allore remembers his sister hanging out at popular West Island nightlife spots, from La Résidence to the Edgewater. Photo by courtesy of John Allor

Theresa Allore enjoyed dancing at the Lime Light on Stanley St. Photo by Lime Light Montreal /Montreal Gazette files

Sept 18 2020
Before Theresa Allore's 1978 disappearance: The life she lived, the city she loved | Montreal Gazette
''Before she went missing in the Eastern Townships, Theresa Allore enjoyed a very Montreal upbringing. John Allore, co-author of a new book about the unsolved mystery surrounding his sister’s death, revisits her favourite haunts.

Author of the article:
John Allore''

''John Allore hosts the podcast Who Killed Theresa?, focusing on unsolved murders in Quebec and other justice issues. In 2003 he launched one of the first crime blogs; theresaallore.com is now a trove of information on unsolved cases in Canada and the U.S. He is a founding board member of AFPAD (Association des Familles de Personnes Assassinées ou Disparues). In 2018 he was awarded the Senate of Canada’s Sesquicentennial Medal for his work in victims advocacy. He lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Wish You Were Here: A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s Quest and the Hunt for a Serial Killer, which John Allore wrote with Patricia Pearson about the unsolved death of Theresa Allore, will be published by Penguin Random House on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Brome Lake Books in Knowlton hosts an online launch Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m.; see Brome Lake Books on Facebook for more information. Paragraphe Bookstore and Toronto’s Massey College co-host a virtual launch on Monday, Sept. 21 at 5 p.m. Signed copies will be available at Paragraphe, 2220 McGill College Ave., and Brome Lake Books, 45 Lakeside Rd. in Knowlton, as of the publication date.''

 

[dotr]

Cold case chronicles: A Quebec brother's decades-long quest to solve his sister's murder | National Post
Sep 18, 2020

''John says he had high hopes that after the report was published, someone in the police department would come forward to be a champion for Theresa and solve her case. But this “super cop” never arrived. Instead, John became the investigator, scouring other cases for potential leads, and even launching a cold case podcast — Who Killed Theresa — in 2017. In Wish You Were Here: A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s Quest and the Hunt for a Serial Killer, a new book published Sept. 22, Pearson and John have teamed up again to chronicle the ongoing hunt for Theresa’s killer and the connections they’ve made to other unsolved murders. They also take a critical look at the police culture in Quebec that enabled investigators to write off a likely rape and murder victim as a drug overdose. The National Post’s Aileen Donnelly spoke with John, who lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Pearson, who is based in Toronto, about their new book.''

 

[dotr]

Sep 18, 2020

 

[dotr]

Luc Yolande Gregoire
The Guardian
Oct 2020
How a brother's search for truth in his sister's death may have revealed a Calgary serial killer | The Chronicle Herald
''Allore and Pearson’s investigation certainly reveals some startling missteps and shoddy investigative work by several agencies throughout the country. But the biggest bombshell in the book is that they believe they uncovered the brutal crimes of a previously unknown serial killer named Luc Yolande Gregoire. Gregoire died in prison in 2015 after being convicted of only one murder: the 1993 sex slaying of Calgary convenience store worker Lailanie Silva.

But after consulting criminologists, cold-case detectives and witnesses and poring over Corrections Canada and parole board reports, the pair were able to trace Gregoire’s movements from Quebec’s Eastern Townships into Alberta and find compelling evidence that seems to link him to several murders. Allore believes he killed at least five women in Quebec, including his sister. In Calgary, he believes Gregoire killed not only Silva but also Rebecca Boutilier, 20, in early 1993 and Tracey Maunder, 26, in 1992. Both murders have never officially been solved.''

The path to Gregoire began when they consulted criminologist Kim Rossmo. He is a former Vancouver police officer who pioneered a technique called geo-profiling, which maps the local pathways of serial offenders. He was asked to look at a series of unsolved killings, including Theresa’s, in Quebec’s Eastern Township. Rossmo said he believed the deaths were linked. Later, the pair consulted another criminologist, Simon Fraser University’s Eric Beauregard, who had profiled dozens of incarcerated, violent, sexual offenders who had been active in Quebec during that time. They asked him if he knew of anyone whose profile would fit.

“He said ‘Yeah, there’s this one guy I think you should look at and his name is Luc Gregoire,’ ” Allore says. “We realized he had committed this murder in Calgary. So we began to focus on that.”

Allore and Pearson traced Gregoire’s movements to Edmonton, where he was incarcerated for armed robbery, and later to Calgary, where he worked as a roofer.''

“I asked the question to Eric Beauregard, who is an expert on sexual murder and who is an expert on Luc Gregoire because he profiled him. I put the question to him and his response was this: ‘It is statistically improbable that Luc Gregoire did not commit these murders.’ ”