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June 16, 2006

Searching for Justice for Theresa Allore -- And Other Candian Crime Victims

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n the fall of 1978, somebody murdered my friend John Allore's big sister Theresa and left her body in the woods in Magog, Quebec. Police investigation at the time was shoddy, and rapidly came to a "blame-the-victim" conclusion.

Since 2001, John has been on a quest to solve his sister's murder, often without much help from Canadian authorities.

Tomorrow he and a group of supporters will take the matter into their own hands once again, gathering to search the crime scene for traces of evidence that might remain.

Their do-it-yourself search is drawing significant attention north of the border -- not just to Theresa's murder, but to other "cold cases" and to the frustrations of Canadian crime victims and their families in their dealings with the Canadian criminal investigation bureacracy.

The National Post has a very good article about it that you can read by clicking here.

Best of luck to John and his fellow searchers tomorrow.

Posted by Eric at June 16, 2006 11:06 AM

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Good luck to your friend. If the police are stumped, then citizens who come forward and attempt to investigate crimes are doing a great public service.

I should also point out that there's a typo in the headline.

Posted by: gordo at June 16, 2006 5:17 PM

Good luck, John.

Posted by: David Marshall at June 17, 2006 12:38 AM

Good luck to your friend - but surely no one seriously expects to discover new evidence in an unprotected wooded area nearly three decades after the event?

Posted by: Anonymouse Coweird at June 19, 2006 8:35 AM

Anon:

Well we found a woman's purse and a woman's shoe; both circa 1970s / 80s: that's certainly more than we expected to find... and more than the police ever attempted to search for.

Posted by: JohnA at June 19, 2006 3:18 PM