Who Killed Theresa?

One of the most interesting things about Francine Da Sylva's murder on October 18, 1985, is that three days earlier, Frank Shoofey was gunned down, on October 15, 1985. And not only that, Shoofey's law office on the 5th floor of that apartment building on Rue Cherrrier is two blocks from the alley where Da Sylva was stabbed to death. Standing at the entrance to that alley on Saint Timothee, you can see the Shoofey building up the hill.https://johnallore.substack.com/

I have some follow-up thoughts on the 1985 murder of Francine Da Sylva, but in order to get there, I need to revisit two other unsolved murders we've covered: the 1979 death of Nicole Gaudreault and the 1975 strangulation and incineration of Diane Thibeault. Solving for x involves bringing an unknown variable to one side, then seeing how other elements line up with that variable - that's what we're going to do here – move and reconsider some variables.https://johnallore.substack.com/

Originally published August 20, 2017A follow-up episode revisiting the case of offender Luc Gregoire.Discussions include updates on the Lise Choquette case, Louise Camirand's addition to the Surete du Quebec's cold case website, parole decisions in the matters of Isabelle Bolduc and Julie Boisvenu, the Murder Accountability Project.For more information please visit the website: theresaallore.com/2017/08/luc-greg…ollow-up-wkt-33/

Originally published August 13, 2017Three LA Noire stories from my one-time life in Hollywood.Part I - Please sign my book. James EllroyPart II - True Crime ChauffeurPart II - Studio City CodaFor more information on the podcast please visit the website: http://theresaallore.com/2017/08/tales-from-hollyweird-wkt-32/

Originally published August 5, 2017.A discussion with Jo-Anne Wemmers, Professor at the School of Criminology of the Université de Montréal about her latest book, Victimology - A Canadian Perspective. Jo-Anne has published widely in the areas of victimology, international criminal law and restorative justice. Her research interests focus on victims in the criminal justice system in the broadest possible sense. Former Secretary General of the World Society of Victimology, she is currently Editor of the International Review of Victimology and the Journal international de victimologie.For additional information please visit the website: http://theresaallore.com/2017/08/victimology-a-canadian-perspective-wkt-31/

Originally published July 22, 2017.Michael Arntfield joins us to talk about his latest book, Murder In Plain English. We discuss where artifice and crime intersect, informing and influencing each other.Topics covered: Jack The Ripper, HH Holmes, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Jacobean theatre, Sophocles, Aristotle, BTK, John Fowles, jeffrey dahmer, Sung Hui Cho, Leonard Lake and Charles Ng, Gilberto Valle, Todd Kohlheep, and The Theatre of the Grand Guignol.For more information on this podcast please visit our website: http://theresaallore.com/2017/07/literature-criminology-interview-with-michael-arntfield-wkt-30/

There's an interesting article in the New York Review of Books on the true crime writer, Sarah Weinman. If you don't know Weinman, she's had a newsletter for years called The Crime Lady. In 2018 she published her first book, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World. In his review, Peddling Darkness, John J. Lennon writes about Weinman's latest book, Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free...www.theresaallore.com

Originally published July 3, 2017.The podcast covers the case of nine-year-old Cédrika Provencher who disappeared from Trois Rivieres in July 2007. We also discuss the 1977 unsolved murder of Claudette Poirier.For more information, please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

Quebec police are playing poker in the game of genetic genealogy but not holding any cards.https://johnallore.substack.comPhoto = Study for Ok by Vincent Desiderio

Originally published June 23, 2017.I attended Trinity College with Malcolm Gladwell at the University of Toronto. In the course of the last thirty years we have attended two weddings together; one infamous and bombastic, the other sweet and unforgettable.

Originally published June 22, 2017.A response to The Minds Of Madness podcast. We backtrack. Revisit Luc Gregoire.www.theresaallore.com

Is it Luc Gregoire? The eyes see what they want to see. If Gregoire was criminally active on the island of Montreal as early as 1977, it casts a whole new perspective on a catalog of the city's unsolved murders. Problems, puzzles and sometimes murder.https://johnallore.substack.com/

Have you heard of Puzzle 15?I bet you have, you just don't know it. You know those 4 x 4 tile scrambles where you have to rearrange the sliding pieces into an image? Popeye? The Flinstones? That's the 15 puzzle, sometimes called Gem, Boss, or Mystic Square.Here's a puzzle. What happened to Marilyn Bergeron? This week marks the 15th anniversary of the disappearance of the 24-year-old girl who today would be thirty-nine. Bergeron left her family's home in Quebec City for a walk on the morning of February 17, 2008. She did not return.https://johnallore.substack.com/

Originally published June 2 2017On October 29, 1999 Monique Gaudreau, a 45-year-old nurse at a hospital in the Laurentians was found dead at her home in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec. Gaudreau was found in her bedroom. She was beaten, sexually assaulted, and stabbed 55 times. This is the story of William Patrick Fyfe.We examine why the serial killer William Fyfe probably wasn't responsible for the Who Killed Theresa? murders.For more information please visit our website: http://theresaallore.com/2017/06/the-ballad-of-william-fyfe-wkt-26/

Originally published on May 28, 2017.The murders and criminal investigative failures of Alice Pare and Ursula Schulze. The Quebec Victims Advocate, Pierre Hugues Boisvenu.www.theresaallore.com

Do you know bagatelle?You know bagatelle probably from the handheld pinball incantation from your childhood. The word "bagatelle" means a "trifle" or simply "child's play."I have a case that is child's play; the 1990 murder of 23-year-old Lise Brisebois. It's a wonder a suspect has never been mentioned as an obvious candidate has been geographically under the Surete du Quebec's nose for thirty years – a sort of criminal investigative bagatelle.https://johnallore.substack.com/

Problems, puzzles, and sometimes murder. And sometimes Jack The Ripper.https://johnallore.substack.com

Who Killed Theresa gets on a top ten true crime list, we talk about that.The victim should be represented more in true crime. A discussion of corruption and public inquiries in Quebec.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published May 20, 2017Discussion of the Montreal police, victim advocacy, and the 1982 murder of Suzanne Blanchard.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published May 6, 2017.A discussion of the 1974-75 cases of Norma O'Brien and Debbie Fisher and the anonymous young man eventually charged with their murders, The Full-Moon / Chateauguay Killer. The cases of Sharron Prior and Tammy Leaky are also discussed.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on May 1, 2017:https://theresaallore.com/2017/04/30/was-luc-gregoire-the-calgary-prostitute-murderer/

A preview of my new podcast Undiluted Hocus Pocus - the wonder of problems, puzzles, and sometimes murder.Follow us on Spreaker: Undiluted Hocus PocusAnd also Substack

Originally published on April 27, 2017A continuation on the discussion of Quebec offenders.www.theresaallore.com

We're having a birthday. I launched Who Killed Theresa in early January, 2003. Twenty years is a long time to catalogue unsolved crime.For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

Originally published in April 27, 2017We consider the suspects Guy Croteau, Gilles Pimpare, and Claude Larouche.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on April 22, 2017We add the final cases of Lise Choquette and Nicole Gaudreaux and summarize all 16 cases.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on April 14, 2017Discussion of the 1981 murder of Tammy Leakey. Relation to the Sharron Prior case is reviewed. Both victims were from Point St. Charles, Montreal, Quebec. We reveal the names of two unknown victims; Maria Dolores Bravo, and (possibly) Johanne Lemieux.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on March 17, 2017We introduce the 1977 case of Jocelyne Houle.www.theresaallore.com

Discussion of the under reporting of crime stats, and the new U.S. Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act.Also, the recent arrest of Joseph George Sutherland for the 1983 Toronto murders of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour. Plus, the long awaited return of the Sherbrooke mannequin case.For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on March 16, 2017We introduce the cases of Johanne Dorion and Chantal Tremblay.www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on March 4, 2017Today 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, 2017An 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, 2017SPVM Screw-up: the Tragedy of Katherine Hawkes www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on February 18, 2017Serial Killers Should Fear This Algorithm / Route 112 www.theresaallore.com

Originally published on January 29, 2017The 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 insecurities. for more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

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 about this case, most of it recently. People may say, "Oh that case, we know all about that, why you wanna do that case?" Well it's an investigation with a very long trajectory - 40 years - and initially, there was a lot of speculation and rumor that wasn't very helpful. Marie-Josée's reputation got caught up in that speculation - innuendo and suspicions about the world of fashion and modeling. www.theresaallore.com

Originally published January 28, 2017Bad Dream House - The Disappearance of Deborah Keywww.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 - 1967A Clockwork Orange - 1972Dracula A.D. - 1972Theatre of Blood - 1973Death Line - 1972 and a lot of Hitchcock. For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

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, 2017In 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, 2017We talk about the unsolved murders of Lison Blais and Denise Bazinet:www.theresaallore.com

Originally published January 6. 2017A 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 1988."For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com