Who Killed Theresa?

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.theresaallore.com

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

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

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 have the will and guts to really take a hard look at what's going on in small town Quebec.For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

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/

"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 information doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't it help to clarify and re-focus the Dube investigation to know this? It still doesn't rule out the intention to sexual assault, but it would help to know that this intention was probably never acted upon."For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/03/05/the-aborted-abduction-of-manon-dube/

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 Eastern Townships. These are just theories, an hypothesis...For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/02/26/theresa-allore-case-update-1/

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, but it is the most well known event, in Sherbrooke. It's a story that many locals would just as soon forget. But it can't and shouldn't be forgotten because in many ways it speaks to the heart of the character of Sherbrooke.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/02/20/the-night-of-the-long-knives/

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 joining Le Quebecois MC in neighboring Granby, this would solve the problem, as it was argued of "Dirty Reich" not being French enough -though the name certainly had an old-world European feel to it. In the end a majority vote won the day, and The Gitans were born.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/02/13/father-jean-salvail-the-biker-priest-of-sherbrooke-quebec/

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 chapter members at the Lennoxville bunker, and there you have a very brief history of the evolution of The Dirty Reich.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/01/18/the-dirty-reich/

"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/

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 such a serious threat that Marc Andre Bedard saw the need to study them. For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/01/25/ceco/

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 experience with one partner being more dominant, possibly older than the other. For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2022/01/15/folie-a-deux/

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/

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 one sent flowers or said they were sorry.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/12/25/bang-bang-knock-knock-the-rock-forest-massacre-part-3/

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 Inquest, where it was determined that officers Roger Dion, André Castonguay and Michel Salvail were criminally responsible for the violent death of Serge Beaudoin, opening the door for criminal charges.For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/12/11/bang-bang-knock-knock-the-rock-forest-massacre-part-2/

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 UZI submachine gun, wounding Jean-Paul Beaumont and killing Serge Beaudoin who died four hours later in a Sherbrooke hospital.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/11/27/bang-bang-knock-knock-the-rock-forest-massacre-part-1-wkt5-20/

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 than two years with the municipal force. When Goulet approaches the teens, Vassard flees down the main drag, then hurdles a fence into a back lot. According to police reports, constable Goulet fired a warning shot into the air. Then while attempting to scale the same fence, Goulet's gun accidentally discharged, shooting 16-year-old Andre Vassard in the head, and killing him instantly. For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/11/13/requiem-pour-un-oiseau-the-killing-of-andre-vassard-wkt5-19/

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

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 apartment (this later turned out to amount to approximately 22 dollars) though there were no signs of a struggle. One of the armchairs was covered in human excrement. There were conflicting reports of both brothers living in the posh Upper East Side apartment, but the doorman said it was Cyril's place and only he lived there. For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/10/16/the-strange-death-of-the-twin-gynecologists-stewart-and-cyril-marcus-wkt5-17/