‘Who killed Theresa?:’ 40 years later, brother seeks answers in Quebec cold case
MONTREAL — John Allore last saw his 19-year-old sister Theresa on a foggy day in the fall of 1978, as she boarded a train in Saint John, N.B., to head home to Quebec after Thanksgiving weekend.
Allore, then 14, remembers giving her a Styx album to mark her 19th birthday before she headed back to Quebec’s Eastern Townships, where she studied at Champlain College.
Six months later, Theresa Allore’s badly decomposed body was found facedown in a shallow river about a kilometre from the dormitory where she lived in nearby Compton.
While the coroner on the scene reported seeing signs pointing to possible strangulation, autopsy results were ultimately inconclusive, and police hypothesized she’d likely died of a drug overdose.