Originally published on March 4, 2017 Today we have an interview with Canadian criminologist Michael Arntfield, author of the book Murder City, The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on February 28, 2017 An Interview with criminologist Dr. Kim Rossmo, whose pioneer work lead to the creation of the field of geographic profiling. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on April 9, 2017. On the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the Battle of Vimy Ridge we remember my grandfather's brother, Thomas Edward Allard who died the morning of April 9th, 1917. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on February 22, 2017 SPVM Screw-up: the Tragedy of Katherine Hawkes www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on February 18, 2017 Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm / Route 112 www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on January 29, 2017 The Murder of Sharron Prior / Route 112 - www.theresaallore.com
If Alain Montpetit truly wanted to be a great stage actor, or music artist, or a writer (I doubt it) he was afforded every opportunity to pursue these ambitions, which for most of us, are impossibilities. Most of us don't have the mechanism in place. Montpetit came from money, he had access to the right people, he had opportunity and influence. What he lacked was deep talent. He possessed superficial talent, he was a populist. I would suggest he knew this, and it was at the heart of his deep ins...
Today's story has elements of what I'm currently writing 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...
Originally published January 28, 2017 Bad Dream House - The Disappearance of Deborah Key www.theresaallore.com
Lauren Barnett is a writer and occasional horror cinema walking guide, her upcoming book of horror walks, Death Lines: Walking London Through Horror Cinema, is available for preorder with Strange Attractor Press. She also hosts the podcast, the London Horror Movie Club. Today we talk about some Chelsea films: The Sorcerers - 1967 A Clockwork Orange - 1972 Dracula A.D. - 1972 Theatre of Blood - 1973 Death Line - 1972 and a lot of Hitchcock. For more information please visit the website: www.there...
Originally published on January 22, 2017. The Allore-Camirand-Bazinet-Blais theory is supported by Claude Poirier. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on January 19, 2017 In this podcast we discuss the murder of Helen Monast, confirmation bias, and the Least-Effort-Principle. www.theresaallore.com
Travels to New England and the Tri-state area. Preview of shows to come. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published on January 14, 2017: We have a treat for you. Coming up this weekend on the Who Killed Theresa? podcast we'll have our first interview: Kristian Gravenor from the Montreal website Coolopolis has agreed to join us. Kris was one of my earliest influences. We're gonna talk about all things crime-time. www.theresaallore.com
Originally published January 9, 2017 We talk about the unsolved murders of Lison Blais and Denise Bazinet: www.theresaallore.com
Originally published January 6. 2017 A show about the criminal investigative failure of the death of Theresa Allore from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. In this episode we focus on the murders of Manon Dube and Louise Camirand: www.theresaallore.com
Originally published January 6, 2017. This is episode 2. We talk about the events that lead up to Theresa's death. Referenced here are Kristian Gravenor's Coolopolis, Patricia Pearson, and the folks at the Maura Murray podcast, and Jordan Boneparte of The Night Time podcasts. www.theresaallore.com
The first podcast episode of Who Killed Theresa. Originally published January 5, 2017. www.theresaallore.com
Some updates on some cases: David Cross, Helene Hurtubise, Margaret Coleman. The slog of dealing with police investigative forces.
I don’t want to write a piece of advocacy, or some bullshit fantasy of triumph over adversity, or something where the endgame is some shitty television program. I just want to tell a really good story.
"Far from ever being punished for their investigative failures, these officers were rewarded for their years of mediocre service. In 1984, Roch Gaudreault received the Police Exemplary Service Medal from the Governor General of Canada. Real Chateauneuf received the honor in 1986; Patrick Hall and Jacques Filion -from the Carole Fecteau case, by the way, this is the 44 anniversary of her unsolved murder - in 1985; and Noel Bolduc, who was the lead on the Grimard and Bergeron, investigation in 198...
The murder of Rolland Giguere must be the worst kept secret in Sherbrooke. Practically the whole town - including the police - probably knows who shot Giguere on the evening of October 31, 1969, but no one has the moral courage to stand up and do anything about it. For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com
"When he was about nineteen - which places the event in 1978 - Gerald was out driving with his older and a third person, Regis and another. Gerald was sitting in the back, Regis was in the passenger seat, and the third person was driving the car. It was in the evening, and they picked up a hitchhiker in Lennoxville. Gerald thought he and the girl were about the same age, so also nineteen. The girl got in the car and sat in the back with Gerald. Gerald began kissing her. From the passenger seat, ...
"Corporal Patrick Hall of the Sûreté du Québec’s drug, alcohol and morality squad headed up the raid on Chez Robert’s. Recall that it was Hall’s phone number that was found in Grimard’s pocket at the dump site on Astbury Road. In testimony at Coroner Jean-Pierre Rivard’s inquiry from September 1978, Hall said he had known Raymond Grimard for five years and that during their frequent meetings, because of the numerous information the double murder victim had accumulated during his criminal career,...
"Michel Belley was acquitted twice for the murder of Monique Marchand. The first occasion due to the "uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice." In court it was revealed that Corporal Roch Gaudreault fabricated evidence in order to incriminate Belley." For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com
For the Townships, Jean Charland had become the gift that kept on giving: For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com
I desperately wanted the informant to be Luc Gregoire, the Sherbrooke sexual predator I was convinced had not only murdered my sister, Theresa, but may have been responsible for the murder of Louse Camirand and the death of Manon Dubé, so I emailed Jean-Pierre and asked him to respond with the name. This was all very dramatic, and he gave me the impression he was minutes away from retrieving it. Not able to wait, I blurted out, "Gregoire" in an email message. Rancourt responded, "Non, I will fin...
This is what Charland told the court happened to Raymond Grimard and Manon Bergeron the night they were murdered on or about July 6, 1978 south of Lennoxville: For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com
On November 10, 1978 someone attempted to set fire to the Aloha Motel in Rock Forest. You’ll recall Rock Forest as a bedroom community to the west of Sherbrooke (five years later it would become the setting of another motel drama: the massacre of two carpet layers by police at the Motel Chatillion). Tragedy was averted, the Sûreté du Quebec just happened to be across the street before the blaze was ignited. Police immediately arrested a nineteen-year-old suspect leaving the scene of the attempte...
"Have you ever played Clue? This is a detective game that asks participants to discover the murderer, the location, and the murder weapon. The results can be: “Miss White did it in the library with the candlestick!” or “I accuse Colonel Mustard of the murder; he did it in the kitchen with a knife!” or “I suspect Miss Scarlett, in the lobby, with the revolver!” and so on. In the coroner’s inquest into the murder of Carole Fecteau and those of Raymond Grimard and Manon Bergeron, one sometimes has ...
