‘Life isn’t fair, justice is blind and dysfunctional, and some cops aren’t smart and dedicated like on television’ – John Allore
By Maurice Crossfield
John Allore, the man who worked for decades to find out who killed his sister while she was a student at Champlain College in 1978, has died, struck by a motorist while riding his bike in his adopted hometown of Durham, North Carolina.
“John was more than a friend. We called each other ‘brother’ because we both had this mission tattooed on our hearts,” Senator and victims rights advocate Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu told Global News. “I loved this fighter who never gave up trying to find his sister’s killer.”
In November 1978 Theresa Allore was a student at Champlain, living at the student residence at King’s Hall in Compton, 18 kilometres away. She went missing, and her body was found five months later in a nearby drainage ditch, clad only in her underclothes. Her wallet was later found several kilometres away.
In the months between Theresa’s disappearance and the discovery of her body police told Allore’s parents that Theresa had likely run away. Suggestions were made, both by the Lennoxville police and later the Sûreté du Québec that maybe she had gotten pregnant and was afraid to come home, that she had gotten mixed up with a cult, or had developed a drug problem. Blaming the victim with no evidence.
