Theresa Burke

{{Short description|Canadian writer, journalist and producer}}

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Theresa Frances Veronica Burke is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television newsmagazine, The Fifth Estate.{{cite news

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|title = First television report in March stirred up a lot of reaction; 5th Estate plans show to check in with Truscott

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|date = September 1, 2000

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|author = Andrew Bruce

|title = Anonymity has become a 'kind of prison' for city man convicted of murder at age 14; Truscott reclaims life

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|date = March 30, 2000

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}} 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 prisons) when he shot himself as the police were attempting his re-arrest.[http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/about/difficult.html A Difficult Story to Tell], CBC, The Fifth Estate. Retrieved December 5, 2011. She co-authored Who Killed Ty Conn (2001) with Linden MacIntyre.{{cite news

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|title = Dying for a chance at freedom

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|publisher = The Ottawa Citizen

|date = October 29, 2000

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|author = David Stonehouse

|title = A fugitive's last taste of freedom: According to a new book, a series of institutional failures contributed to the death of Ty Conn, the convict who captured the public's imagination by escaping from Canada's most notorious prison.

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|date = October 29, 2000

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|title = SOCIETY'S CHILD – TRUE CRIME

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|website = Toronto Star

|date = February 25, 2001

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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.