On the afternoon of Thursday, July 6, 1978, high schooler Alain Boulanger was riding his motorcycle on the back trails south of Lennoxville when he spotted a man lying on the ground off Astbury road, near route 143, and about 11 kilometers south of Sherbrooke. Alarmed, Boulanger rode home to tell his mother. And this is how you know you've arrived in S-Town; the mother immediately informed her child to go back and check if the man was dead. For more information please visit the website: www.ther...
Apr 15, 2022•24 min
On Saturday, June 24 three fisherman hoping to find luck in the shallow waters of Buck Creek instead found the body of 18-year-old Carole Fecteau. Buck Creek is 32 kilometers southeast of Sherbrooke, about 5.5 kilometers from the American border and East Hereford. Fecteau was born in nearby Coaticook. She never went far, ending up dead in a creek 20 kilometers from where she started. For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com...
Apr 09, 2022•29 min
For those of you coming in fresh to this website / podcast this is what we have so far. Twelve chapters, the stories are all interrelated, in some cases the stories are connected. The narrative all focuses on a region in southeastern Quebec known as The Eastern Townships that I call, Quebexico. For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com
Mar 26, 2022•35 min
On Halloween night 1968, the manager of a King street Kentucky Fried Chicken store was gunned down outside his home in Sherbrooke Quebec. Rolland Giguere's death was the only murder recorded in Sherbrooke in 1968, and the oldest unsolved murder on record in the city. This is one of those 'Great Mysteries of the Last Century' we were just talking about, another one of Sherbrooke's 'indecipherable enigma''s that when you scratch the service, you find the mystery is quite penetrable, provided you h...
Mar 19, 2022•43 min
There's a "person of interest" in the Louise Camirand case. He's been there all this time, literally staring me in the face. His name is Raymond Roy. Before we get to Raymond Roy, some background on Camirand's 1977 murder, including updates and clarifications of previously reported information. For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/03/12/corporeal-louise-camirand-update/...
Mar 12, 2022•45 min
"There are good reasons to believe Dube was never sexually assaulted, reasons up until now never revealed. In Wish You Were Here, I wrote that Dube had no broken bones. It turns out that wasn't true. Recently I spoke with a retired officer from the Sherbrooke Police. According to them, "Dube's lower body injuries were consistent with being struck by a vehicle" - meaning her legs were broken. I can understand 40 years ago using this as a holdback, but why today the police wouldn't disclose this i...
Mar 05, 2022•46 min
I would like you to stop thinking of the deaths of Louise Camirand, Manon Dube and Theresa Allore as connected cases. The basis for that argument was something suggested by criminologist, Kim Rossmo when he recommended - based on the geographic proximity of the crimes - that Quebec Police look at the cases together. It was supported by another criminologist who stated that it is "statistically improbable" that a serial killer didn't commit three similar murders in the space of 19 months in the E...
Feb 26, 2022•32 min
On Friday, March 15, 1974 two Atomes gang members were shot and killed by Gitans in a four hour battled that started in a tavern parking lot, continued at the local hospital, and ended in the downtown streets of Sherbrooke. Any high schooler can tell you the leader of the Roman Empire was betrayed and assassinated on March 15, the Ides of March in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The Night of the Long Knives is by far not the only moment of gang conflict in the Eastern Townships region in the 1970s,...
Feb 20, 2022•36 min
In 1969 The Dirty Reich motorcycle club of Sherbrooke officially changed their name to The Gitans at a general assembly meeting held that spring. The event was covered in the June 19, 1969 edition of La Tribune as if reporting on a matter of governmental business in Quebec parliament. It would take some time, La Tribune dutifully noted, for members to produce new crests which would cost the club $500 - could their treasury bear the expense! There was a long discussion of simply patching over and...
Feb 13, 2022•27 min
Before they were Hells, even before the Gitans, they were The Dirty Reich. Georges “Bo-Boy” Beaulieu, the de-facto president of The Gitans who rose to prominence in the Hells Angels, was, at first, a member of The Dirty Reich. The Gitans/Gypsies first formed as the Dirty Reich in the early 1960s. They changed their gang name to Gitans in 1970. They were allowed to patch over to be the Sherbrooke /Lennoxville Hells Angels on December 5, 1984. Then on May 24, 1985 we have the massacre of Laval cha...
Feb 05, 2022•38 min
"The following is the chapter of biker gangs in Sherbrooke from the 1980 CECO report, The Biker Gangs of Quebec. And you can see that when we are talking about biker gangs in the 1970s in Sherbrooke we are mostly talking about two groups: the Atoms (Atomes) and the Gitans (Gypsies).." For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/01/17/the-bikers-of-sherbrooke/
Jan 29, 2022•39 min
For today, I want to focus on a CECO report published in 1980 titled, Biker Gangs in Quebec. For our purposes, this report tells us what the government knew about motorcycle gangs in the 1970s, or what they thought they knew. What we know now is that within the decade of the 1970s police underestimated the threat of biker gangs. The Quebec government incubated their growth providing government assistance through projects like the MUQ experiment. By the end of the decade biker gangs had become su...
Jan 25, 2022•37 min
There's an even more frightening theory than the one where it's "statistically improbable" that a serial killed didn't commit three similar murders in the space of 19 months in the Eastern Townships: the idea that all sorts of people were getting away with some very bad things, including murder in the era of my sister Theresa's murder. One of the ideas that has persisted over the years is the theory of a folie-a-deux; more than one offender committing these murders, as a shared, escalating exper...
Jan 15, 2022•47 min
In January 1968 a Canadian Forces Otter aircraft broke through the winter ice of Memphremagog and sank to the floor of the lake. Several recovery efforts of the military aircraft were attempted, none succeeded. Then in 1976, a five man crew from Montreal managed to locate the wreckage and raise it 280 feet to the surface from the lake bed. Who were these guys? For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/12/30/quebexico/...
Jan 08, 2022•25 min
llets from an UZI submachine gun, wounding Jean-Paul Beaumont and killing Serge Beaudoin who died four hours later in a Sherbrooke hospital. We pick up after the coroner's process, the trial, and inquiry by the Quebec Police Commission. The three Sherbrooke police officers in question, Dion, Castonguay and Salvail were recommended for demotion for their actions, but kept their jobs, some were even promoted. The family of Serge Beaudoin took legal action, but never saw a penny in restitution. No ...
Dec 25, 2021•52 min
Quebec police believed they had tracked the men down to a motel in Rock Forest, Quebec, a small community in the Eastern Townships wedged between the city of Sherbrooke and the town of Magog. Police stormed the Chatillon motel in the early hours of the morning of December 23, 1983 strafing the carpet layers' room with bullets from an UZI submachine gun, wounding Jean-Paul Beaumont and killing Serge Beaudoin who died four hours later in a Sherbrooke hospital. We pick up after the Coroner's Inques...
Dec 11, 2021•41 min
The 1983 Rock Forest Massacre in which two carpet layers were mistaken for armed and dangerous criminals involved in the fatal shooting of a Brinks security guard. Quebec police believed they had tracked the men down to a motel in Rock Forest, Quebec, a small community in the Eastern Townships wedged between the city of Sherbrooke and the town of Magog. Police stormed the Chatillon motel in the early hours of the morning of December 23, 1983 strafing the carpet layers' room with bullets from an ...
Nov 27, 2021•55 min
A hot summer night in small-town Quebec with nothing to do but hang out in the local square. 16-year-old Andre Vassard is huddled with friends, talking the talk of teenagers. It's Friday, July 28, 1972. Maybe they're discussing School's Out, the Alice Cooper record had recently been released, perfectly expressing the frenetic comradery of 70s teen rebellion. Across the square, constable Andre Goulet suddenly emerges from the Ste. Therese police station. Goulet is a rookie, he has served less tha...
Nov 13, 2021•47 min
We've done an episode on the Philippe Pinel Institute for the Criminally Insane, today's story is about The Douglas Psychiatric Institute for the Insane. For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/10/19/tales-from-the-douglas-psychiatric-institute-for-the-insane-wkt5-18/?doing_wp_cron=1636471262.2759680747985839843750...
Oct 30, 2021•42 min
rom a 10th floor locked apartment at 460 E. 63d St. and York Ave. in New York City, discovered the bodies of Dr. Cyril Marcus and his twin brother, Dr. Stewart Marcus. As first reported in the New York Daily News, Cyril was lying face down on the bed in a pair of shorts. Stewart's body was found on the floor in another room near and identical matching bed, lying face up and completely naked. The handyman told police the place was disheveled, with large amounts of cash scattered throughout the ap...
Oct 16, 2021•55 min
Today's story is about how we sometimes shine or vibe or fixate on things or people or places. For me it's a place - rather a region. A peninsula formed by the merging of the Ottawa and Saint Lawrence rivers in the southwest region of Quebec and Ontario. For me, a spooky place, my mind often travels there. We'll also revisit and talk about the 1975 Nation River Lady case of Casselman, Ontario, and look again at the 1992 Laval cold case of Marie-Ève Larivière. For more information visit the websi...
Oct 02, 2021•1 hr 8 min
"Some systematic, institutionalized fuckery going on." In July 2018, 17-year-old Riley Fairholm was shot dead by a Sûreté du Québec police officer on the deserted streets of Lac Brome. This episode is an interview with Riley's mother, Tracy Wing. We talk about her advocacy, her lawsuit against the Quebec police, and her home town of Knowlton, real life location of the fictitious Three Pines in the Louise Penny novels featuring super Surete du Quebec investigator, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. ...
Sep 18, 2021•1 hr 16 min
Early Saturday evening, October 20, 1979, 28-year-old David Cross was shot dead by SQ constable Robert Lessard outside his home on the Kahnawake Reserve on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal. For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/09/04/some-nameless-scapegoat-in-the-middle-david-cross-wkt5-14/
Sep 04, 2021•55 min
The 2008 murder of Catherine Daviau and the 2011 murder of Valerie Leblanc. We also visit the recent case of the Sherbrooke mannequin. For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/08/21/spontaneous-combustion-catherine-daviau-valerie-leblanc-wkt5-13/
Aug 21, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Who killed James Dubé? For nearly 15 years, the murderer of the fisherman from Grande-Rivière, in the Gaspé, managed to escape investigators. Until the Sûreté du Québec launched a delicate infiltration operation to gain the trust of the main suspect, more than 500 km away. For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/08/07/murder-of-james-dube-an-almost-perfect-crime-wkt5-12/...
Aug 07, 2021•53 min
A Violent Death, Not Suicide A 2019 coroner’s report on the death of a 27-year-old Inuit woman determined “This is a violent death”, not suicide as initially ruled by the Montreal Police, the SPVM. Siasi Tullaugak was found hanging from the small balcony of a Chomedey Street apartment on August 29, 2017. Within 24 hours, another Inuit woman, Sharon Baron’s body was found hanged in a closet inside her apartment in Dorval. In both cases the Montreal police considered the deaths of the two Inuit wo...
Jul 24, 2021•1 hr 17 min
Real Chartrand was given a second chance. Then a third, then a fourth... a fifth, a sixth, a seventh. The career criminal was granted more opportunities to reform than most Quebec offenders. Over and over, judges who sat looking down on Chartrand saw the potential in him and opted for leniency... For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/07/10/more-of-a-psychopath-than-his-patient-real-chartrand-wkt5-10/...
Jul 10, 2021•50 min
The final episode in the 9 part podcast on the 1969 unsolved Montreal murder of Teresa Martin. 'At some point, you are no longer investigating a murder or disappearance, but the very quality of the investigation in the hands of those who have taken an oath to protect you. The police are no longer protecting the public, they're protecting themselves. Seventeen years after its creation, their cold case website has become a monument to failure." For more information please visit the website: https:...
Jun 20, 2021•45 min
Unless we explain what an open case is. Open case is simply the term used by our police forces to describe a case of murder that could not be solved in the days following the crime. After the rigorous interrogations, in fact, if the murderer has not been discovered and if the latter has not been denounced by a detainee, the police officers place statements and exhibits in a folder and file it. Investigators are then diverted to another cause. They will only resume the investigation if unexpected...
Jun 05, 2021•1 hr 2 min
The most recent episode of CrimeCon UK's Crime Conversations. I sat down with John and Sally, a couple of ex-detectives from True Crime Investigators to chat about true crime, how we do what we do, and lots of other great stuff.
May 26, 2021•41 min
