[1] The podcast started out as a personal exploration of the Death of Theresa Allore, his sister, and later expanded its focus to cover other unsolved crimes.
[2] Born in Trenton, Ontario, he was raised principally in Saint John, New Brunswick, where he dated journalist Patricia Pearson in high school.
[2] After graduating from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, he worked as an actor in the early 1990s, with a major role as Angus Snack in the 1991 film The Events Leading Up to My Death.
[4] He subsequently moved to the United States to work in Hollywood, where he had supporting roles in the films Trapped in Paradise and A Pyromaniac's Love Story, and a guest role in the television series Dawson's Creek, but later left acting and moved to Durham, North Carolina, where he took a job in the accounting department of the city government and pursued a master's degree in public administration.
[5] After finding substantial evidence that she may have been murdered by a serial killer,[6] he became prominent as a victim's rights advocate, including advocating for the creation of a provincial cold case squad,[7] launching a memorial scholarship in Theresa's name at Champlain College,[8] and being interviewed for Cal Millar's book Find My Killer: Unsolved Homicides.