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My guest, John Allure's sister, Teresa, was a student at Champlain College when she disappeared without a trace on November 3rd, 1978.

Teresa's body was discovered five months later in a creek nearby. After the police closed Teresa's case, declaring it a drug overdose,

John set out on a decades-long search to unravel the mystery surrounding Teresa's death.

His book, Wish You Were Here, is published by Vintage Canada Division of Penguin Random House and is now out in paperback and it details both his search for answers and his surprise and his surprising

discoveries. Welcome, John Allure. Thank you, Barbara. So can you tell me a little bit about your sister, Teresa?

Yeah, yeah. So she was 19 when she disappeared. I was 13 and 14. She was really kind of a child of the 70s, you know, experimenting and finding her way.

Very adventurous.

So anything from, you know, at a time when it was considered extremely risky to,

to, like, have a road bike and cycle everywhere,

I think it's still risky, but she did that, you know, skydive, hiking,

you know, a very crunchy kind of thing.

A little pot, sure.

But was really, you know, a young child of the late 1970s, who after a year out of school decided to come back and apply yourself and really wanted to get a university education

and wound up at Champlain College.

And can you talk a little bit about her disappearance

and how she was found and what clues were left?

Sure. So Teresa went missing from college about six weeks after her arrival in the fall of 1978.

And at that time, you know, it seemed relatively normal. She was seen by friends at lunch on campus

with every intention of returning to her dorm residence, which was about 10 kilometers away

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