When her body was discovered, police then suggested that she was the possible victim of a drug overdose, perhaps with the assistance of fellow college students.

[11] In the summer of 2002, the family of 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 presented evidence that she was a victim of murder, and that her death was possibly linked to multiple other unsolved local cases.

[14] 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 deaths as a series.

[12][15] Allore successfully lobbied for the creation of a Sûreté du Québec cold case unit, which was created in 2004.

[18] In November 2018, John Allore was awarded the Senate of Canada's Sesquicentennial Medal for his work in victims advocacy for "recognition of your valuable service to the nation.