Theresa Burke

Theresa Burke

Theresa Frances Veronica Burke (born Amy Lauren Gardner on May 11, 1956) is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television newsmagazine, "the fifth estate". She was born in Toronto.

On May 20, 1999, Burke was on the telephone with bank robber Ty Conn, an escapee from the Kingston Penitentiary (one of Canada's most secure and notorious prisons) when he shot himself as the police were attempting his re-arrest. She co-authored "Who Killed Ty Conn" (2001) with Linden MacIntyre.

She won a Canadian Association of Journalists award in 2000 for her work on "His Word Against History", a "fifth estate" production about the life of Steven Truscott, a Canadian man who was convicted of murder in 1959.

Burke has a child with writer Rick Salutin.

External links

* [http://www.penguin.ca/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140290958,00.html "Who Killed Ty Conn" profiled at Penguin Books]


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