Episode 186 - From Darkness to Light - How DNA Resurrected The Sharron Prior Case
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 22 October 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
You’ll learn how advancements in DNA technology would eventually point to her murderer, a man who fully intended on taking his dark secret with him to the grave.
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JOHN ALLORE
Who Killed Theresa?
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MINDS OF MADNESS
Theresa Allore - Part 1
Theresa Allore - Part 2
Theresa Allore - Part 3
PRIOR FAMILY WEBSITE
www.sharronprior.com
YOUTUBE
Det. Sgt. Eric Racicot Testimony To Exhume Body of Suspected Killer of Sharron Prior
Sharron Prior's sisters react to news that a West Virginia man has been confirmed as her killer
Putnam County Circuit Court Judge Phillip Stowers Makes Ruling To Exhume Body of Murder Suspect
COLD CASE: The Murder of Sharron Prior
MONTREAL GAZETTE
Montreal teen's killer identified after 48 years using DNA evidence
Body exhumed in West Virginia in investigation of slain Montreal teen
Sharron Prior cold-case murder: Longueuil police to give 'major' update Tuesday
Methods used to solve Montreal teen's murder could help with other cold cases
NATIONAL POST
Mother hunts a killer: For 37 years, Yvonne Prior has pursued her daughter’s murderer | National Post
CBC
DNA nails Montreal teen's killer in 1975 cold case | CBC News
Body of suspect in 1975 Montreal teen killing exhumed in West Virginia | CBC News
A new DNA tool helped crack a Montreal cold case. It could help solve others | CBC News
Man still determined to find sister's killer | CBC News
FOX/ABC
DNA testing confirms West Virginia man raped, killed Canadian teen in 1975 | WCHS
W.Va. man's body exhumed after Canadian authorities believe he raped, killed teen in '75 | WCHS
W.Va. man who killed teen in Canada in '75 being investigated in unsolved cold cases | WSET
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| 0:00.0 | What does home mean to you? |
| 0:02.0 | I'm Jimmy Femmeraywa, writer, broadcaster, and restaurant critic. |
| 0:06.0 | And I've been speaking to well-known names about what home means to them. |
| 0:10.0 | And it was in the East End, it was in Burmese, when Burmese was rough. |
| 0:13.0 | I remember thinking, not that the boys are going to fancy me. |
| 0:16.0 | Good number, Otty, and a chicken curry. |
| 0:18.0 | You are full, you are connected to your culture, and you may get harder. |
| 0:23.0 | That's where's home really. |
| 0:25.0 | With me, Jimmy Femmeraywa. |
| 0:27.0 | Find it wherever you're listening to this. |
| 0:30.0 | The opinions expressed in the following episode do not necessarily reflect those of the minds of madness podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.0 | In 1978, the Allure family endured the irreparable loss of their daughter and sister Teresa, |
| 1:25.0 | when she mysteriously vanished of a campus in Quebec one night after missing the only bus |
| 1:31.0 | that could have safely taken her back to her residence. |
| 1:35.0 | Initially, police didn't even look for her. |
| 1:38.0 | Theorizing, she'd probably run away or stumbled off into a ditch somewhere on drugs. |
| 1:44.0 | The following year, Teresa's body was discovered by a muskrat trapper near a farmer's field in a bog. |
| 1:51.0 | Unfortunately, because of the advanced stage of decomposition, police had very few clues to go on, |
| 1:58.0 | only a little clothing left on Teresa's body. |
| 2:01.0 | Years later, as DNA research opened doors to track down violent offenders, |
| 2:07.0 | police had failed Teresa again by misplacing the evidence bag containing her clothes. |
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