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Book review by Nancy Coggeshall Raised in Sherbrooke, he left victims in Kulich. Quebec and Alberta. The Sûreté du Quebéc theorized ohn Allore and Patricia Pearson’s In 1981 Grégoire was sentenced that Theresa was pulled under by the second collaboration Wish You Were for a year in Quebec after pleading “riptide of seventies party culture.” JHere: A Murdered Girl, a Brother’s guilty to a lesser charge of indecent In the Sherbrooke area biker gangs Quest and the Hunt for a Serial Killer assault against a Quebec woman whose distributed drugs to surrounding is a compelling read. It details the trauma was so great it choked any communities. At Compton’s two consequences of Theresa Allore’s death, verbal expression of the horror she dormitories drug use was unchecked. which resonate through time. The endured. Her marriage was ruined, Two adult staff members supervised murdered girl, John’s older sister, was and she left the city. A year later he was more than 200 16 and 17-year-old street smart, independent, and witty. granted day parole, and in January 1983 residents. Adding to a situation Earning A’s in all her science courses, he was fully paroled. That was revoked. signaling possible mayhem in pulsating her overall average was in the eighties. He returned to prison until 1984. In neon, night-time transportation She liked extreme sports and owned an 1986 in Edmonton he was convicted for between campus and the Compton Italian racing bike. She had regularly armed robbery and served seven years dormitories was limited to two buses: and safely hitchhiked to Montreal. in prison. Grégoire was sentenced to one at 6:00 p.m. and the second at 11:00 make a documentary about victims Although she smoked pot, Theresa and life for a murder he committed in p.m. The route followed a lonely, dark of sexual predators, John shared her closest Montreal friends pledged Calgary in 1993 and was transported country road. The student handbook his research with them. Because of not to indulge in anything stronger, to Archambault Institution in St-Anne- included tips on how to hitchhike their misleading, sensationalistic unless one of the others was with her. A des Plain in Quebec. He died there on safely. approach to the subject, however, John student at Champlain Regional College March 17, 2015. Enlarging the focus of Theresa’s severed all connections long before an in Lennoxville, Quebec, Theresa was The Parole Board of Canada cited death, the authors skillfully include unhinged Fredette killed two people. two years older than fellow residents his criminality as “polymorphic and strides in criminal investigation As Pearson notes, “In popular culture at Gillard Hall, fifteen kilometres from persistent since adolescence. [His] techniques, marginal progress in and politics, we dance with evil, the main campus. She had lived on her violence seems often impulsive, attitudes toward women, and amended sexualize it, experimen¬tally venerate own and held a job at a ski factory in encouraged by intoxication. [His] parameters of rape. Accounts of other psychopaths.” She knows from her own Pointe Claire. crimes are associated with the presence victims of sexual predators reveal the crime reporting experience that the On November 3, 1978, Theresa of grave danger for your victims.” anguish common among victims’ “end result of violence is annihilation.” disappeared. The following spring a Two forces mitigated a timely, families. The “alchemy of grief” and the trapper discovered her body along the thoughtful investigation of Theresa’s Pearson’s relationship with the weight of guilt waft through this Coaticook River. Twenty-three years murder. Dismissive, misogynistic Allore family is a plus. Her tough story. At the age of fourteen John felt later the National Post ran a three-part attitudes held by the police across area- mindedness precludes smarm. She and guilty. Somehow Theresa’s death was series “Who Killed Theresa?” It was jurisdictions squelched any immediate John were high school sweethearts, his fault. Not surprisingly, Robert and the first collaboration for John and effort to find her. The Sûreté du Québec later “wary friends.” John’s narrative Marilyn Allore shoulder the heaviest Pearson. They concluded that Theresa shared no information with the family. unspools from confused grief in load. Trapper Robert Ride experienced had been murdered. (Full disclosure: I Teresa’s father Robert Allore conducted adolescence to his hope for clarity guilt because he found the body. have known Patricia Pearson for more door to door interviews near the site after the National Post article he and John’s statement about closure than thirty years.) where his daughter’s body was found. Pearson wrote. It hardly soothed him is telling. He’d never heard a crime Stacking meticulous reporting, One policeman told Theresa’s boyfriend though it deepened his commitment victim use the word though journalists investigative skills, and splendid that she was a prostitute. The College, to activism. He earned the Senate of or inexperienced justice activists favor writing, their deeper research in Wish offering no sympathy at all, posited that Canada Sesquicentennial Medal for its use. He believes “they don’t want to You Were Here provides pertinent the 19-year-old student was a runaway. his podcasts, blogging, and victim ask the question they should really put context surrounding Theresa’s murder Was she adopted and looking for her advocacy. to themselves: My god, faced with that culturally and politically. Besides birth parents? The two authorities’ Pearson attended CrimeCon, a experience, what would I do? relating a family’s descent to Hell and indifference and gaslighting cast convention for fans of “true-crime A virtual book launch will be John’s search for justice, they unearth aspersion on Theresa and more deeply and armchair detective work,” noting streamed live on Monday, Sept.21 at 5 the criminal history of battering, traumatized her parents Robert and all the folderol and sensationalizing. p.m. murder, and rape by Luc Grégoire, Marilyn Allore, their oldest son André, When Quebec filmmakers Stephane Anyone interested in attending the man suspected of killing Theresa. John, and Theresa’s boyfriend Vlad Plante and Ugo Fredette wanted to can follow this link to join the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/ Mike Savoy

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