I'm Dan Pierce and this is Pressure Cooker.

I said I will never wear the E-Job or give up my many skirts.

Never.

It's the outrageous story of two misfits living on the fringes

and how they became the central players in a sprawling terror investigation.

We just hung out and played video games and smoked weed and did what we do, you know.

Pressure Cooker is available on the CBC Listen app

or wherever you get your favorite podcasts.

This is a CBC podcast.

I was like, where's Delora?

You know, she was on her Facebook every day.

In July 2017, when Alora didn't get on that bus to Montreal to see Leila,

her friend Monica Forrester noticed her Facebook also went quiet.

She was always talking about her relationship

or doing these messages to her boyfriend and stuff like that.

It had been like a few months that he hadn't reached out to me

and like not checking his Facebook or anything.

Just a reminder that sometimes her sister Michelle slips into using male pronouns for Alora.

I just knew something wasn't right,

because that's the only way that we would communicate

because he loses phone all the time.

I basically like messaged every single person on his Facebook

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