Stories By Chantal Saville Mar 30, 2021 If you were a tween or teen in the mid-80s in Toronto, you probably know about the abduction, rape and murder of Alison Parrott. I was just finishing Grade 8, at the same elementary school that Alison attended in downtown Toronto, when it happened. Though Alison was younger than me by two years, a lot of my friends were in the same running club as her. Her disappearance and murder lay a blanket of fear on all of us. How could it have happened? How could some random stranger find her and do this? I’m ashamed to admit it now, but I even asked “How could her parents have let her go to meet this guy alone?”