Life isn't fair, justice is blind and dysfunctional, and some cops aren't smart
and dedicated like on television. This is who killed Teresa. First, some
words about Francine da Silva, because this story is ultimately about Francine da Silva.
I can't remember if it was in a podcast, but I've spoken many
times about where she was found, that area having a strong influence on me,
where she lived and her murder was committed. And the locus is place
Emilia Gamelet, that in itself is a focal point in Montreal. The main
library Banquieu is located there. It's also where Berry Yukon metro station is placed.
It's one of the main terminals of the city subway system. Oursham Bows
is there but will be closing this spring. It's a bookstore that has been
an institution in the city for at least half a decade. My nephew worked
there for years and I used to drop in and surprise him whenever I was
in town. I didn't know until recently that Plasdui, an indoor shopping court
across the square known today more for homeless and drug problems, was the original
location of Depuis Frey or one of Montreal's most venerated department stores, and I
could go on and on. Plas Emily Gamilins like a magnet for me,
I'm compelled to stay in the area whenever I visit Montreal. One time after
dark, I went out photo exploring, and this is long before you know
I've written about Francine da Silva, and I shot a picture of her apartment
on Rueandrei with out even having known Francine had lived there. So it's kind
of strange, and that it's a very unassuming building. The bus station is
north of the square. I used to hang out there as a kid,
and so did Francine and her friends anonymous to each other. And then finally,
I can't tell you the number of hours I've spent in that library bunk,
staring at microfilm of old newspapers, looking for clues and meanings. That
I believe without question that Edmund Turcott murdered Tianti Bowl. There's such specificity in
his confession, such defiance in his posturing in court, but the judge let
him go. Why I would argue that Edmund Turcott was protected. He served
a low level purpose to organize crime, and they would come to his aid
when he needed assistance. Not for everything, of course. There are petty
crimes where Turcott met with justice, but nothing. Ever, like murderer,
He's usually slapped on the wrist with a fine and the threat of serving time,
but nothing for murder, which I believe he continued to commit throughout his
criminal career. In nineteen seventy eight, while living in LaSalle, Turcott was
charged with soliciting a prostitute. The attorney RAYL Charbonneau also represented Turcott in that
process. In nineteen eighty, while living in Point O'tromble, he was charged
with manslaughter, though he appears to have beaten that sentence. Then in nineteen
eighty one, while living in Tarban, he was handed a six month sentence
for minor infractions. There are almost twenty years where Turcott does not appear to
have been in trouble with the law. Then suddenly, in nineteen ninety seven,
he resurfaces and San calik'st area where he was charged with theft. The
legal process for the murder of Diantibou started after his arrest in late November nineteen
seventy eight, and it dragged out all through the spring of nineteen seventy nine,
with the judge's final decision not delivered until May fourteenth of that year,
nineteen seventy nine. Charbonneau and Turcott stuck together all through that There would have
been telephone conversations and meetings for almost half a year. Through this process,
Turcott was incarcerated in the Parthenay jail at the Set Duquebec's headquarters near the Jacques
Cartier Bridge. Then all at once, he was set free in mid May
nineteen seventy nine. Two and a half months later, Nicole Gudreau was found
murdered in an alleyway near the Plateau. But Gudreau isn't murdered on just any
Montreal summer night. She's found on August third, nineteen seventy nine, almost
exactly four years from the date of the murder of Diantibou. Would Edmund Turcott
have celebrated his release from incarceration for the murder of di'antibou by murdering another woman
on the anniversary of the killing, That's my question. Nicole Gudreau spent the
evening of August second at a bar called Baltimore at the corner of Sank Hubert
in Ontario. Like Tibau, Gudreau was severely beaten, then transported from a
domicile to an open area, in Goudreau's case, an alley, which was
also an abandoned lot. Really it was a field, and she was left
there to die. Like Dian Tibou. At the time, Montreal police hypothesized
that either she was attacked on the street by a stranger between the Baltimore and
her destination two blocks away on Rue Saint Andre, or her assailant had been
drinking with her at the Baltimore and the two left the bar together. This
second scenario matches Turcot having partied with Tibeau at the Rodeo before taking her back
to a rooming house and assaulted her. Six years later, Francine da Silva
is also on her way home after dark. Like Nicole Goudreaux, she too
has been out that evening. She meets a friend at the La Famou at
Mount Royal and Saint Denis, and the two part ways at Saint Denis and
Duluth, with Francine making her way on foot back to her apartment at Saint
ANDREI and Yes, Saint Andre is the same street where police found Goudreau's blood
and belongings the night she was murdered. Francine's apartment is a mere two blocks
from what is thought to have been the place when Nicole was attacked. Francine
doesn't make it back to Saint Andrei. In fact, at Sherbrooke and Saint
Andrew, she continues on the main artery of Sherbrooke, over shooting where she
lived on Saint dre perhaps because at this point she knew she was being followed
and she wanted to remain in the public view of the heavily traffic Sherbrooke.
At Rue Saint Timothy, she's attacked, Francine is dragged into the alley behind
the apartment building at nine zero two Sherbrooke Street East, where she is raped
and stabbed repeatedly. Early in the process, police focused on a suspect name
Raymond Charette. When arrested, Sharette's clothes had evidence of blood on it.
A second victim of an attack on the same day that Francine was murdered came
forward and told police she was waiting for a bus on Rue mont Royale when
she was forced into a vehicle by a man with a knife. Alleged to
have been Sharette alleged to have been Sharette. They drove around for a while
on the plateau, and Sharette eventually let her out of the vehicle. Sharette
was ever charged with Da Silva's murder. All of this is getting a little
heady with streets and locations and dates. I will remind you again they're on
the website. There is a map. The Dean Tibou plot points from seventy
five are marked in blue, the Nicole Goodreau plot points from nineteen seventy nine
are marked in red, and then finally the Da Silva geographic points from nineteen
eighty five are marked in green and kind of a geographic profile. And you
know, if if you're not going to go to the map, I'll just
tell you that the Tibou location is is not contiguous with the other two.
It's it's it's a little it's a little east. But but Da Silva's and
Goodreau's overlap. Those geographic points overlap with each other. So I know we're
dealing with an extraordinarily long timeline ten years seventy five to eighty five, yet
ten years three murders. However, I'm just pointing out possibilities. I'm not
saying I know this. I don't know anything. I'm just pointing out possibilities.
So go to the website RISA la dot com. T h R E
s A A L l o R E point come concerning what happened to Francine
da Silva. Over the years, others have offered theories. Christian Gravener from
Kolopolis suggested to me rather recently that her murder could have been committed by Augustino
Ferrari, Quebec serial killer convicted of the nineteen ninety rape and murder of Claire
Sampson and Danielle Laplunt. Fierre is an excellent candidate. In nineteen ninety five,
he sexually assaulted to women in an apartment at Barrie and Ontario, one
block west of the Baltimore, where Nicole Goudreau was last seen in August seventy
nine. However, there's an age problem here. Fierra was born in sixty
four. He would have been sixteen when Goudreaux was murdered. Not out of
the question. My bigger issue is his mo Fierra committed his assaults indoors.
Thibougudreau and Silva were all found outdoors. And this is the same problem as
when producers of the TV series the Quebec television series s Latras sur letras dun
tour tried to suggest that William Fife was responsible for all of the downtown murders
in the Montreals in this evanies and it's a bit like throwing a ubiquitous sleuthing
blanket over the whole mess. Right, Fife's MO was strictly daytime, indoors,
ruse entry and usually older women. Whoever killed Thibou, Gudreaux and DaSilva
was a nightcrawler. Fife's not our guy. Who could be our guy is
Edmund Turcott. He is often in the right place at the right time.
He confessed to a murder with a very similar MO to those of Gudreau and
Da Silva outdoors encounters, on streets or in bars. Whoever killed Gudreau did
it on the anniversary date of Tibo's murder, almost like a punctuation mark,
saying I got away with murder. And Turcott appeared to have gang or gangster
affiliated protection. He certainly had a high powered lawyer on his side, a
man who later rose to prominence as a defender of the hell Angels in some
of their most infamous cases in the province of Quebec. Turcotte rarely served time
for his convictions. Usually he was given a slap on the wrist fine,
something a high powered lawyer could manufacture. When we catch up with Turcott nearly
twenty years later, he's living in Saint Calixt, an area well known for
Hell's Angel's inhabitants. And there's one more thing that makes Edmund Turcott unique.
He had an association with the assassinated mob lawyer Frank Shuffy. One of the
most interesting things about Francine da Silva's murder on October eighteenth, nineteen eighty five
is that three days earlier, Frank Shuffy was gunned down on October fifteenth,
eighty five. And not only that, Shufy's law office, on the fifth
floor of that apartment building on Rue Charier, is two blocks from the alley
where Da Silva was stabbed to death. Standing at the entrance of that alley
on Saint Timothy, you can see Shufi's building in the distance. Up on
the hill. Edmund Turcott new Frank Schufi at his interrogation for the murder of
Diantibaux on November twenty third, nineteen seventy eight. The first thing Turcott tells
the corner and police is my lawyers are not here this morning. They are
supposed to arrive this afternoon, mister Shufi and Charbonneau. So this is the
same thing that played out two years later where Shuffie and Charbonneau initially shared a
case, but Charbonneaux eventually ended up holding the bag for Frank. Recall a
case real Charboneau was charged with contempt of court for failing to show up to
represent his client, a man accused of kidnapping and rape of a thirteen year
old. Charbonneau alleged that the arrow was due to a mix up with his
legal associate, Frank Shuffy. Charbonneau and Shuffy often worked on cases together in
this era, and in this case, Shufy decided that Charbonneau would represent the
case of the pedophile solo. The one problem was that Chuffy had failed to
notify Charbonneau and he had drawn the shortest straw in this fair. Something like
that might have irked Charbonneau. In fact, it could have pissed him right
off. Over the years, there's been a lot of speculation about the motive
for Frank Shouffy's assassination, and the consensus appears to be that it was a
mob hit. Quebec crime writer Shell Oje has written that it was likely mobsters
were the killers of Shuffy, with Claude Grant, an attorney who articled under
Frank, adding that the Montreal Underworld had a contract out on Shufi a year
before the actual murder. It's a little complicated, but at its heart,
Shofy had influence on the Hilton family. Not the Hotel Hilton's, not Conrad
Hilton. This was a family of boxers. The Hiltons were set to sign
an agreement with American boxing promoter Don King. Shuffy publicly advised against this,
which put him in the crosshairs of Montreal mafia boss Frank Katroni. Frank Katroni,
who was representing the Hiltons, wanted the deal with Don King to go
through. Katroni was on the verge of being extradited to Connecticut on charges of
airwin trafficking. He needed the money to pay for his legal defense, and
by the way, his lawyer was Sidney Leathman, who we've already met Schufy
was becoming too much of a nuisance for Frank Katroni, so he put a
contract out for Frank's murder. There's also a theory that the hit on Shuffy
had nothing to do with the Katronis, but everyone does agree that it was
a mob hit. When a contract is issued, someone has to carry out
that contract, and we've seen an example of how this can be carried out
whor was carried out in that era. In nineteen sixty nine, a Sherbrooke
businessman wanted his partner and the Pats Fried Chicken franchise murdered, so he ordered
a contract out on Roland Jaguarre to be carried out by a local hood named
Yavan Charlin. Charlin then had two thugs, the brothers Regis and Jean Claude
la Chause, execute that contract for ten thousand dollars allegedly, so if Frank
Katroni wanted someone murdered in nineteen eighty five, he might do something similar.
He'd ordered a contract for the murder of Frank Shuffy and then someone would find
a low level guy to carry that out for five thousand or ten thousand dollars.
We've also seen how lawyers like Sidney Leathman were well acquainted with underworld figures,
and how the lawyer Rayal Charbonneau was not above getting involved in criminal activities.
He was sentenced for forging a false affidavid about the bombing of an apartment
building on demezen Of Boulevard in nineteen eighty four that killed four people, a
document which he said Sidney Leathman grew up. There's an element of geographic profiling
to this theory. It suggests that criminals habitually stick to familiar territory. Turcott
hunted in the area around Sherbrooke and Saint Andre because he had dealings in that
area as early as nineteen seventy eight, where one of his lawyers was officed.
Then he ended up assassinating that lawyer. This is not unlike the urban
section around King and Wellington and Sherbrooke, Quebec, Regis La Chasse, Jeannie
Charlin and Luke Gregoire they all lived in that area also around nineteen seventy eight.
It's where they partied at the Moulin Rouge, which was like the Rodeo
where Jutan's and Atum Gang clubhouses were located. Where some of them committed Arson's
abductions maybe murders. It's also where the criminal courts are located, like Turcotte
periodically visiting Shuffi La Chasse, Charlin and Gregoire spent many days in court hearings
in the same area where they committed their crimes. There's a nagging component to
all of this that I'm omitting, possibly that I should admit, but it
keeps kind of tugging at my pant legs. So I'm just gonna bring it
up, probably regret it. But it's phone calls. There's this odd theme
of anonymous phone calls in this narrative. Then they probably mean nothing, but
I'm nosy by nature. So here it is Turcott's brother in law, Roger
Moreau, remember him. He makes the anonymous phone call to the police saying,
if you're looking for Dion, look for Edmund Turcott. Then he hangs
up. There's also the anonymous phone call that was made in the case of
Nicole Goodreau's murder from seventy nine. Somebody called up and stated, I just
killed a woman. You'll find it in the vacant lot of Rue Saint Andre.
Then hung up, and I'm not done. The English language newspaper The
Gazette received a call after the Shoofy murder, where the caller explained, I
and my colleague have assassinated Frank Shuffy good Writtens. Now they also claim an
affiliation with the Red Army Liberation Front is something everyone believes to have been like
a ruse to throw police off the trail of the real killer. So there's
all these calls, and I guess I'm bringing this up because two years before
the Gaudreau murder, someone called the police after the Montreal murder of Catherine Hawks
in nineteen seventy seven, saying almost the exact same thing as the Goodrow case.
He explained that he had killed a woman and where they could find the
body. If you're looking for the whole Catherine Hawk's story, I don't have
time to go into it today, but it's linked on the site terseller dot
com. And one final thought before I kind of draw this whole, it's
this whole package. To a conclusion, I reached out to Raal Charbonneau,
the attorney for this story, and he replied once confirming his law office today
is located in Old Montreal, and then he ignored all my subsequent emails and
from messages, I give you my affection bills and bills. But far I
suggest that someone got word to Edmund Turcott that he could make some fast money
by carrying out the contract killing of Frank Shufy, the execution of a man
he knew. He had most likely been to the office on rouch Arhier on
numerous occasions. He was familiar with the area. He possibly murdered Nicole Gudreau
in that vicinity in nineteen seventy nine on the anniversary of the murder of Diantibau,
and he was there again just three days later after Shufi's murder, when
he most likely stabbed and sexually assaulted Francine da Silva. So in this theory,
the values are Shufi, Da Silva, Gudreau and Thibout. Solving for
X requires moving the Turcot variable to the other side and seeing if the two
sides add up. But solving for X has more significant implications. Do you
recognize the pattern where X are Quebec unsolved murders than on the other side.
We have all these broad themes, these variables, biker and gang activity,
police forces unwilling to go the distance to solve murders, the destruction of case
evidence, innocent women caught in the crosshairs of gang members, extra curricular activities,
lawyers, cutting corners and cutting deals corners, making deals with lawyers,
weak, easily manipulated judges. We see it here with Turcott Da Silva,
Gudreaux Thibaut, and we've seen it before the murder of Teresa Martin and the
involvement of bikers, the murder of Teresa Lore and Roland Shaguere and Carol Fecteau
and Regis le Chase, also a gang member. All of this is speculation,
but after decades with Montreal and Quebec police seemingly taking no interest, showing
no curiosity in this criminal investigative affair, speculation is a weapon of last resort.
Someone needs to lift a finger and at least try to bring some sense
of conclusion to these unsolved murders. This is whom Kill Teresa. If you
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Just um um, you know, kind of kind of my last word.
If someone were to ask me, do you have any final thoughts,
any additional thoughts on the murder of Francine da Silva. That's what I would
offer, and Nicole Gergreau and and Diantibou and then has a bonus Frank Shufy
of all people this has been, who killed Teresa? I'm your host,
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