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Theresa Allore was a 19-year-old Canadian college student who disappeared on Friday, November 3, 1978 from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Five months later on April 13, 1979 her body was discovered in a small body of water approximately one kilometer from her dormitory residence in Compton, Quebec. Upon her disappearance police initially suggested she was a runaway. When her body was discovered police then suggested she was a possible victim of a drug overdose, perhaps at the assistance of fellow college students. In the summer of 2002, the family of Theresa Allore enlisted the support of an investigative reporter and friend, Patricia Pearson who produced a series of articles for Canada's National Post newspaper that gave compelling evidence that Theresa Allore was a victim of murder, and that her death was possibly linked to two other unsolved local cases; the death of 10-year-old Manon Dube in March 1978, and the murder of Louise Camirand in 1977. The theory was supported by geographic profiler and then FBI consultant, Kim Rossmo, who suggested a serial sexual predator may have been operating in the Quebec region in the late 1970s and advised police to investigate the three deaths as a series. Rossmo gained notoriety in 1998 when he suggested the creation of a serial killer task force to Vancouver police in the cases of missing women from the Vancouver's downtown Eastside. Robert Pickton was eventually arrested and found guilty of six murders, though he was accused with, and implicated in an additional 26 murders of Vancouver missing women. The deaths of Theresa Allore, Manon Dube, and Louise Camirand remain unsolved cold-cases. ==Before the disappearance== Theresa Allore was a young, nineteen-year-old college student in just her eighth week at Champlain Regional College. On the morning of Friday, November 3, 1978, she was preparing for the last day of the school week. On that day she was wearing a white t-shirt, blue corduroy pants that she has borrowed from a friend, a beige knee-length sweater, Chinese slippers without socks, and a long, dark green scarf. She left her room in the Gillard House dormitory that morning and crosses the parking lot to the main residence building, King’s Hall to have breakfast. Theresa ate breakfast with her friends Jo-Anne Laurie and Caroline Greenwood. King’s Hall was a residence used to house some of the students of Champlain Regional College. It is located in the country village of Compton, situated 10 miles from Champlain College’s main academic campus in the town of Lennoxville, Québec. At the beginning of the 1978-79 school year, King’s Hall housed two hundred and forty Champlain students. Approximately one hundred students lived in the main building, the ‘King’s Hall’ building, while the remaining one hundred and forty students were housed in an adjacent, prefab annex building, Gillard House. At 8:00 am Theresa and her friends took a shuttle bus to the main campus in Lennoxville. The buses ran every hour, between the hours of eight in the morning and six in the evening. Occasionally, if there was a special event on campus, a late bus would run to bring students back to the residence. It is a twenty-minute ride across the isolated Eastern Townships countryside. Theresa arrived at approximately 8:20 am, with just 10 minutes to deposit some belongings in her locker located in the Nichols Building on campus before attending her first class. Theresa had two classes that morning, Physics and Chemistry. Theresa had lunch in the Dewhurst dining hall where she talked briefly with her brother who was also attending Champlain college. They talk briefly about a pair of blue corduroy pants she is wearing, which she borrowed from a friend. Theresa also speaks with Caroline Greenwood. Earlier in the week, Greenwood had invited Theresa to spend the weekend at her parents’ place in Hemmingford, a small community south of Montréal. Theresa informed Greenwood that she has too much homework and would not be able to get away for the weekend. According to Greenwood, she never saw Theresa again after lunch. Theresa is not seen that afternoon. Presumably she spent the remainder of the day attending classes, although no one witnesses this. That evening, two students, Suzanne DeRome and Josie Stepenhorst are having dinner in Dewhurst. DeRome and Stepenhorst are roommates in Gillard House, Compton. They share a room that is three doors down from Theresa’s. At approximately 6:00 pm, Theresa comes over to their table. She asks if they are going home for the weekend. DeRome and Stepenhorst reply that they are not. The girls decide to get together that evening to listen to records. Theresa agrees to stop by their room around 9:00 pm. Theresa leaves. She gives no indication where she may be going, or what she may be doing between 6:00 and 9:00 pm. At 6:15 pm, Josie Stepenhorst is on board the bus that will take her back to her residence in Compton. By now it has grown dark. The bus doors close and the vehicle pulls out from the curb. Stepenhorst glances out the window and sees Theresa leaving Dewhurst dining hall. She is walking toward the bus. She has apparently missed the last regularly scheduled bus for that evening. It will be a five-hour wait until a special bus is sent out to retrieve students from the campus pub. Apart from this late-night bus, there is no way for students to get back to their residence. Some students wait, others make the decision to hitchhike. After 6:15 pm, November 3, 1978, it is difficult to determine what happened next. Theresa may have returned to her locker, retrieved some books and proceeded to the library to work on her homework. This was often her habit. She may have left Dewhurst dining hall and made the half-mile walk up the street to the Lion Pub. Possibly she had some drinks, waiting for the late bus. Or maybe she met someone in the pub. Or perhaps she got tired of waiting, and decided to hitchhike. Friday evening, November 3 was a quiet night at the King’s Hall residence. Many students went home to their parents’ for the weekend. There were usually parties on Fridays, but there is a big college football game in the morning, and most of the student athletes went to bed early. A Student, Greg Deacon, who is in the same chemistry class as Theresa, drops by her room to see if she has completed her homework. He knocks on her door, but there is no answer. At 9:00 pm, Suzanne DeRome and Josie Stepenhorst are back in their room listening to records. Theresa never shows up to listen to records. Shortly after 9:00 pm, student Sharon Buzzee is walking through the entranceway of King’s Hall. Buzzee glances over at the main staircase and is surprised to see Theresa standing there as if she’d come in from outside. Buzzee stops to talk with her. She asks why Theresa did not leave to spend the weekend with Caroline Greenwood as she had planned. Theresa replies that she decided not to go as she had too much homework to do. Buzzee asks Theresa what her plans are for that night. She replies that she intends to do her homework. As Buzzee leaves, Theresa appears to be heading up the stairs of King’s Hall toward the second or third floor. Sharon Buzzee is the only person to report having seen Theresa on the King’s Hall staircase. Around nine-thirty, another student, Tamara Westall says she saw Theresa in the King’s Hall dining room. She is there, according to Westall, grabbing a late night snack prepared for students. No one else witnesses this encounter either. 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