Theresa Frances Veronica Burke is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television

newsmagazine A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do newspapers or new ...

, '' The Fifth Estate''. She was born in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

. On May 20, 1999, Burke was on the telephone with

bank robber Bank robbery is the criminal act of stealing from a bank, specifically while bank employees and customers are subjected to force, violence, or a threat of violence. This refers to robbery of a bank Branch (banking), branch or Bank teller, tell ...

Ty Conn Tyrone Williams "Ty" Conn (January 18, 1967 – May 20, 1999), born Ernest Bruce Hayes, was a Canadians, Canadian bank robbery, bank robber. He was the only person in the last half-century to escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, on ...

, an escapee from the

Kingston Penitentiary Kingston Penitentiary (known locally as KP and Kingston Pen) is a former maximum security prison located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, between King Street West and Lake Ontario. History Constructed from 1833 to 1834, and opened on June 1, 1 ...

(one of Canada's most secure prisons) when he shot himself as the police were attempting his re-arrest. She co-authored ''Who Killed Ty Conn'' (2001) with

Linden MacIntyre Linden Joseph MacIntyre (born May 29, 1943) is a Canadian journalist, broadcaster and novelist. He has won ten Gemini Awards, an International Emmy and numerous other awards for writing and journalistic excellence, including the 2009 Scotiabank ...

. She won a

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award in 2000 for her work on "His Word Against History", a ''Fifth Estate'' production about the life of

Steven Truscott Steven Murray Truscott (born January 18, 1945) is a Canadians, Canadian man who was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 1959 for the rape and murder of classmate Lynne Harper. Truscott had been the last known person to see her alive. He w ...

, a Canadian man who was convicted of murder in 1959. Burke has a child with writer

Rick Salutin Rick Salutin (born August 30, 1942) is a Canadian novelist, playwright, journalist, and critic and has been writing for more than forty years. Until October 1, 2010, he wrote a regular column in ''The Globe and Mail''; on February 11, 2011, he be ...

References

External links

''Who Killed Ty Conn''
(Linden Macintyre & Theresa Burke). Penguin Group Canada, October 11, 2001. Retrieved March 30, 2011. Living people Canadian women journalists Canadian women non-fiction writers Journalists from Toronto Writers from Toronto 20th-century Canadian journalists 21st-century Canadian journalists Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-journalist-stub