Who Killed Theresa?

Today's story is about how we sometimes shine or vibe or fixate on things or people or places. For me it's a place - rather a region. A peninsula formed by the merging of the Ottawa and Saint Lawrence rivers in the southwest region of Quebec and Ontario. For me, a spooky place, my mind often travels there. We'll also revisit and talk about the 1975 Nation River Lady case of Casselman, Ontario, and look again at the 1992 Laval cold case of Marie-Ève Larivière.For more information visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/10/02/something-fuckeried-this-way-comes-wkt5-16/

"Some systematic, institutionalized fuckery going on."In July 2018, 17-year-old Riley Fairholm was shot dead by a Sûreté du Québec police officer on the deserted streets of Lac Brome. This episode is an interview with Riley's mother, Tracy Wing. We talk about her advocacy, her lawsuit against the Quebec police, and her home town of Knowlton, real life location of the fictitious Three Pines in the Louise Penny novels featuring super Surete du Quebec investigator, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/09/18/riley-fairholm-shot-dead-by-a-surete-du-quebec-police-officer-the-tracy-wing-interview-wkt5-15/

Early Saturday evening, October 20, 1979, 28-year-old David Cross was shot dead by SQ constable Robert Lessard outside his home on the Kahnawake Reserve on the South Shore of the St. Lawrence River near Montreal.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/09/04/some-nameless-scapegoat-in-the-middle-david-cross-wkt5-14/

The 2008 murder of Catherine Daviau and the 2011 murder of Valerie Leblanc. We also visit the recent case of the Sherbrooke mannequin.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/08/21/spontaneous-combustion-catherine-daviau-valerie-leblanc-wkt5-13/

Who killed James Dubé? For nearly 15 years, the murderer of the fisherman from Grande-Rivière, in the Gaspé, managed to escape investigators. Until the Sûreté du Québec launched a delicate infiltration operation to gain the trust of the main suspect, more than 500 km away.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/08/07/murder-of-james-dube-an-almost-perfect-crime-wkt5-12/

A Violent Death, Not SuicideA 2019 coroner’s report on the death of a 27-year-old Inuit woman determined “This is a violent death”, not suicide as initially ruled by the Montreal Police, the SPVM.Siasi Tullaugak was found hanging from the small balcony of a Chomedey Street apartment on August 29, 2017. Within 24 hours, another Inuit woman, Sharon Baron’s body was found hanged in a closet inside her apartment in Dorval. In both cases the Montreal police considered the deaths of the two Inuit women as suicides. People who knew the two women said they suspected foul play, but when they tried to communicate this to the police their information was brushed aside.In the case of Baron, the Quebec coroner eventually ruled her death a suicide. In a March 2018 report, Dr. Louis Normandin wrote that Sharon Baron hung herself with a computer power cable, concluding that she died of compression asphyxiation of the neck structures following the hanging, finally determining, “It is a suicide.”Tullaugak’s coroner’s report wa

Real Chartrand was given a second chance. Then a third, then a fourth... a fifth, a sixth, a seventh. The career criminal was granted more opportunities to reform than most Quebec offenders. Over and over, judges who sat looking down on Chartrand saw the potential in him and opted for leniency...For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/07/10/more-of-a-psychopath-than-his-patient-real-chartrand-wkt5-10/

The final episode in the 9 part podcast on the 1969 unsolved Montreal murder of Teresa Martin.'At some point, you are no longer investigating a murder or disappearance, but the very quality of the investigation in the hands of those who have taken an oath to protect you. The police are no longer protecting the public, they're protecting themselves. Seventeen years after its creation, their cold case website has become a monument to failure."For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/06/19/shimmering-memory-teresa-martin-9-wkt5/

Unless we explain what an open case is. Open case is simply the term used by our police forces to describe a case of murder that could not be solved in the days following the crime. After the rigorous interrogations, in fact, if the murderer has not been discovered and if the latter has not been denounced by a detainee, the police officers place statements and exhibits in a folder and file it. Investigators are then diverted to another cause. They will only resume the investigation if unexpected new information is added to the file. Otherwise, they or the murderer just has to shut their mouths and start over. "For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/05/31/why-murders-are-unsolved-teresa-martin-8-wkt5/

The most recent episode of CrimeCon UK's Crime Conversations. I sat down with John and Sally, a couple of ex-detectives from True Crime Investigators to chat about true crime, how we do what we do, and lots of other great stuff.

Women members in 1960s biker culture. The Satan's Choice motorcycle club. Mike French as possible suspect in the Teresa Martin murder.For more information please visit the website: https://theresaallore.com/2021/05/23/they-are-treated-just-like-pigs-teresa-martin-wkt5-7/

In February 1970 - five months after the murder of Teresa Martin - the Surete du Quebec took over the investigation from the Montreal North police (reasons to be discussed later). In the spring of 1970 the mother of one of the girls, Huguette D, overheard a conversation between her daughter and one of her friends, Johanne H in which Johanne H stated that she knew who killed Teresa Martin. The mother of Huguette D then narced on her daughter and went to the police, resulting in the May 21 interrogation. These interviews were conducted by Laurin Lapointe and Roch Heroux, but they were under the authority of the Surete du Quebec homicide investigator, Sergent Marcel Ste-Marie. Before going any further we should know more about these men - and they were all men - who interrogated two teenage girls for well over an hour.For more information visit the website: http://theresaallore.com/2021/05/06/you-dont-have-a-name-in-your-head-teresa-martin-6-wkt5/

May 21, 1970 interrogation of two witnesses by Coroner Laurin Lapointe and Crown Attorney Roch Heroux into the murder of Theresa Martin:- Johanne H- Huguette DFor more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

Why were the Quebec police investigating the motorcycle club, La MUQ in relation to the 1969 murder of Teresa Martin?For more information visit the website: http://theresaallore.com/2021/04/10/la-muq-teresa-martin-wkt5-4/

"Are there truly in the streets of Montreal and its region, one of these monster murderers, or one of these sexual maniacs we know and have seen in the pages of books and in movies who violate their victims, their prey of choice being young girls at the flower of their youth? "For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com/2021/03/27/le-sadique-meurtrier-teresa-martin-wkt5-3/

Teresa Martin was meant to be found like that - displayed against the wall of that tavern on a Saturday morning, for families to see the ambulance and the squad cars as they drove on their way to hockey practice or garden centres, so it would be the topic of conversation all that weekend, and into Monday morning for the local boys and girls going to school. That's certain. For more information visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

This is the 1969 unsolved murder of Teresa Martin."I am in no hurry to tell this story. I have a lot of information on this case, but I haven't quite figured out how to land the plane. I haven't completely worked out the staging. It has all the elements that you're accustomed to hearing on WTK - set in Quebec, unsolved murder, criminal investigative failures. Quebec lives in this echo chamber of delusion. If you think the fake-news era in the States is bad, Quebec has been living in a version of this landscape ever since Champlain planted a fleur-de-lis on The Mountain. What strikes me about this case is how the narrative has changed over the last 50 years. There is now a very controlled version of this story, and most of the elements that would help solve the case have been dropped. I don't buy the versions of this story peddled by the police and the press. "For more information please visit the website: http://theresaallore.com/2021/02/27/pattern-recognition-teresa-martin-wkt5-1/

An interview with author Patricia Pearson, her first book, When She Was Bad - How And Why Women Get Away With Murder was just re-released from Penguin Random House.We discuss the the book, true crime, Karla Homolka, Bill James' The Man From The Train, and the "Angel of Death", nursing home caregiver and serial killer, Elizabeth Wettlaufer. For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

A crossover episode with Chantelle, host of the Lady Justice podcast. We discuss the Netflix documentary 'The Ripper' - which features the investigation of the murders committed by The Yorkshire Ripper - Peter Sutcliffe. To find Chantelle's podcast - Lady Justice: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/lady-justice-true-crime-936814For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com

Do you have a dark spot on your past?For more information please visit the website: www.theresaallore.com