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Toronto Police Service :: News Release #44171
June 17 2019 rbbm.
Case #: 2019-112676
The Toronto Police Service would like to make an appeal for information related to a shooting investigation.

On Monday, June 17, 2019, at approximately 3:45 p.m., officers were on patrol and monitoring a large crowd gathered for the Toronto Raptors' rally at Nathan Phillips Square.

It is alleged that a shooting took place nearby at Bay Street and Queen Street West.

Officers made three arrests and recovered two firearms. Police have identified four victims with injuries related to the shooting.

Anyone with photos or videos from in and around the area at the time of the shooting is asked to upload to tps.on.ca/bayqueen.

 

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June 18, 2019 7:12PM
https://www.cp24.com/news/two-men-charged-police-seeking-person-of-interest-in-shooting-at-nathan-phillips-square-1.4471394
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"Toronto police say they have now charged two people and are seeking a person of interest in connection with a shooting that injured four people and caused chaos at yesterday’s Raptors celebrations at Nathan Phillips Square."
“We are still looking for a person of interest,” Saunders told reporters Tuesday morning.


That person is described as a white male between five-foot-nine and six feet, with short, light brown hair and a heavy build. He was wearing a white button-down t-shirt and was last seen running westbound on Queen Street, Saunders said.


“There were definitely people there that saw and would probably have no idea in connecting the dots that’s the person that we’re looking for,” he added.


Thanio Toussaint, 20, is shown in a court sketch from June 18, 2019. (John Mantha)


Shaquille Miller, 25, is shown in a court sketch on June 18, 2019. (John Mantha)

 

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ACTIVE SEARCH - Toronto LE release video of violent gas station robbery, Front/Sherbourne, 13 June 2019

 

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Sept 4 2019
OPP delve into serial killer investigations in new Youtube series
"Provincial Police are getting in on the true crime craze with a new Youtube series.

The OPP has launched a multi-part video series called “Serial Instinct: Through an Investigative Lens.”

They are framing the series as a look into the investigation behind some of the most prolific serial killer cases in Ontario.

“The depiction of monster serial killers on screen and in the media is easy to find, but what about the stories behind the investigation,” read a release from OPP.

The series will include interviews with detectives and forensic analysts and officers involved in well-known serial criminal cases."

 

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●Sharmini Anandavel, 15, vanished on Saturday, June 12th, 1999. She had left her apartment building on Don Mills Rd. E. near Finch Ave. E. at 9 a.m., on her way to interview for a job as a receptionist for what police later learned was a fictitious company called Metro Search Unit. Her parents had planned to drive her there, but were sidelined that morning by a family emergency.
A friend saw Anandavel sitting on a bench inside Fairview Mall, 1 km south of her home, at about 10:30, and another witness, a tenant in her apartment building, claimed to have seen Anandavel alone at Peanut Plaza, across the street from her apartment building, at 11:45 a.m. That was the last time she was seen alive.
Hikers making their way through the East Don Parkland, about 800 metres south of Finch Ave E., found the skeletonised remains of Sharmini Anandavel on Saturday, October 9th, 2 km west of where she was last seen. An autopsy could not establish cause of death, nor whether she had been sexually assaulted, but common sense would point in the direction of the latter.
Even as soon as the immediate days after Anandavel’s disappearance, before her remains were found, police had a strong suspect, a 23-year-old former neighbour of the girl’s named Stanley Tippett. He was the one who arranged the job for Sharmini, according to what she had told her parents. Tippett claimed to have last spoken to Sharmini more than a week before her disappearance, and said he had arranged a job for her at a swimming pool, nothing else. Even though his alibis apparently checked out and police could find nothing concrete to tie him to the girl‘s murder, years later Tippett would be accused of perpetrating the very same type of lure that ensnared Sharmini, in the case of a woman who was promised a job that didn‘t exist. Then, in 2008, Tippett allegedly kidnapped a 12-year-old girl 50 km east of Toronto and sexually assaulted her before dumping her, alive, behind a school. He is to face trial very soon in that case.
Whoever killed Anandavel, police believed she went willingly with the individual down the narrow makeshift path, which entered the wooded park off Finch Ave. E. on the west side of Don River.
Map depicting the victim’s final steps:

RBSBM.
Started thread in light of recent articles about the case.
CANADA - Sharmini Anandavel,15,Toronto,remains located by Don River ravine,12 June 1999

 

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Ws thread..
CANADA - Kiesingar Gunn, 26,Toronto (Liberty Village) shot dead, 11 Sept. 2016,*$50K reward*

 

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Above: Stolen RCMP firearm
Public Safety Alert,
Friday, November 1, 2019
Case #: 2019-2099749
The Toronto Police Service would like to make the public aware of a stolen firearm investigation.

Toronto Police Service :: News Release #45710
"On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, at 10:04 p.m., officers began an investigation into the theft of an RCMP firearm at Sherway Gardens shopping mall.

It is reported that:

- between 7:30 - 9:45 p.m., a black satchel with a blue stripe was stolen

- the satchel contained a Smith & Wesson 9mm model 5946 pistol

- the pistol has a silhouette of a horse and rider with GRC and RCMP engraved on the right side of the firearm

- also stolen were three magazines and a police radio

If anyone locates the satchel, do not remove the firearm from within. Please call 9-1-1 to have police attend your location.

If anyone has knowledge of or witnessed the theft please call Detective Constable Nicholas Caramanico or Detective Ray Direnzo of 22 Division Major Crime."

 

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I have finally completed another collection of five murders. It will be one of the last. To the best of my knowledge these cases are unsolved, but if anyone knows otherwise, please advise.

[FONT=&quot]●29-year-old Antonio Garito, of Margueretta St., died of head wounds after a fight with several men on Saturday, June 28th, 1986. The fight, which was witnessed by two women, occurred in a laneway behind Noble St. Afterwards, Garito was driven to and dumped in a parkette on St. Clarens Ave., north of Bloor St. by a person believed to be named Pat.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Garito stumbled south towards his home. When he arrived home, he complained to his family of shortness of breath and then lost consciousness. He was taken to hospital where he died.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further information.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]●On Friday, March 26th, 1976, the body of 54-year-old Raymond Pius Harte was found in the basement of the run-down house on Ontario St. where Harte had been squatting. He had been dead for about 10 days.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]It is believed Harte, an alcoholic vagrant, was clubbed to death by drinking buddies after he was given money to buy booze and returned empty-handed. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further details or updates were found.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]●At midnight on Thursday, December 22nd, 1988, Nick Gournis, 50, was found by two passersby at Galactic Amusements Arcade, an establishment he owned at 1058 Kingston Rd. He had been beaten about the head with a baseball bat, which was found at the scene. He died in hospital hours later. Police found that the arcade had been robbed by Gournis’s killer, and that the crime had occurred between 10 p.m. and the time he was found. He was last seen alive at 9:15.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Gournis, a father of two girls, lived on Raquel Ct. in west Toronto.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further pertinent information.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Victim:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Crime scene, 1058 Kingston Rd:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]●Ernest Earl Keith, 55, was found beaten to death with a whiskey bottle outside his room on the second floor of the Winchester Hotel at 531 Parliament St. early on the morning of Tuesday, July 20th, 1976. He had died of multiple skull fractures.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Keith, a brewery worker, had resided at the hotel for five years.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No additional information was found regarding the disposition of this case.[/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]●Kevin Lionel McBride, 47, was found stabbed to death in his apartment at Sheppard Ave. E. and Markham Rd. on Monday, May 17th, 1982. He had been dead for a couple of days.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]McBride’s car and credit card had been stolen. Police believed his killer was invited into McBride’s apartment on Saturday night after answering McBride's ad for a roommate.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The victim’s credit card was used in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan, and police were able to create a composite sketch (below) based on witness descriptions. He was described as white, 6’2”, in his mid-20s to early-30s, with wavy dark brown hair swept back from his forehead. He was in the company of another man.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]On September 22nd, McBride’s car was found in Rochester, Minnesota. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]McBride was an interior decorator and antique dealer who had moved to Canada from Australia 17 years earlier.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]No further information.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Victim:[/FONT]
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[FONT=&quot]Composite of suspect:[/FONT]
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Ernest Earl Keith
Ernest Earl Keith’s final resting place is the quiet Deseronto Cemetery on Hwy. 2, between Belleville and Kingston.

It is a peaceful place. A far cry from the violent manner in which the Royal Canadian Air Force veteran died in 1976.

The clip in the yellowing files of the Toronto Sunis maybe 150-200 words long. It is padded with a trio of other homicides in the same pre-gentrification downtown area.

His file on the Toronto Police Service cold case page is even terser.
HUNTER: Toronto cold case murder in the ‘Bucket of Blood’

 

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Fresh incentive to solve cold case after LE send murder knife for DNA testing.
CANADA - Richard Thomas Moore, 28, Toronto (High Park) beaten/stabbed/robbed, 3 Dec.1988

 

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Police to provide update on fatal shooting of 22-year-old OCAD student
December 19, 2019
Police will hold a press conference this morning to provide an update on their investigation into the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old college student last week.
Jeremy Vincent Urbina, 22, was shot in the parking lot of a housing complex near Finch Avenue and Leslie Street at around 8 p.m. on Dec. 11.
He was pronounced dead on scene.

Urbina's family have previously told CTV News Toronto that the OCAD student had been studying for an exam earlier in the evening but had decided to go to the supermarket across the street to get food for himself and his mother.

Ws thread..
Jeremy Vincent Urbina,22,college student shot dead,Toronto,11 Dec. 2019

 

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Dec 23 2019
'We have the killer's DNA,' says cop investigating 1997 strangulation of 21-year-old Toronto woman
"Officers investigating the murder of a 21-year-old woman found strangled to death in the laneway of a homeless shelter in the city’s West Don Lands neighbourhood 22 years ago say they have not been able to solve the case despite having the killer's DNA.

On the morning of May 12, 1997, officers received a 911 call about a body found in the laneway of a homeless shelter known as StreetCity, located in the area of Front and Cherry streets.

Police arrived to find 21-year-old Lisa Lynn Anstey dead at the rear of the property.

“The deceased’s body was fully clothed and face down on the ground beside the wall. Missing was the deceased’s right running shoe,” said Det.- Sgt. Stacy Gallant, who issued a new appeal to the public for information on Monday. “A full forensic examination of the scene and the body was conducted.”
“DNA testing was conducted and a male DNA profile was developed,” he said. “He is not currently in the national DNA data bank.”

He added that forensic testing has determined that the suspect is likely a white male with blue or light-coloured eyes and blond or red hair.


“If you know who is responsible, take that step and help bring the offender to justice,” Gallant said. “If you want to remain anonymous, that is OK. We have his DNA so all we need from you is his name.”

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More capsules:


●Lisa Lynn Anstey, 21, was found beaten to death in a desolate downtown parking lot behind the Street City hostel, at 393 Front St. E., on Monday, May 12th, 1997. Anstey, a prostitute and known crack-cocaine addict who worked the corner of Wellesley and Bleecker Sts., was one of a number of prostitutes murdered in Toronto in the mid and late-‘90s. Most of the other cases remain open as well.

●On Tuesday, December 20th, 1983, Erin Gilmour, 22, was murdered in her apartment on Hazelton Ave. in Toronto’s ritzy Yorkville neighbourhood. She had been bound to her bed and stabbed several times, with one knife thrust piercing her heart, an autopsy later found. On the night of her murder, Gilmour finished work at a clothing store beneath her flat and went upstairs to wait for a male friend, Anthony Munk, to pick her up to go to a cocktail party; police theorized she opened her door absent-mindedly, expecting Munk, but finding her killer instead. Munk found his friend’s body when he arrived at 9:30 p.m. Gilmour had received obscene and threatening phone calls in the days prior to her murder, but police were unable to trace them.

 

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Toronto police officer who setup service’s first dedicated missing persons unit retires
December 27, 2019
"Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Stacy Gallant choked back tears as he recalled the moment a few weeks ago when he announced his retirement to his peers."

"Among the most memorable cases he said he has investigated, Gallant remembered his first homicide in 2005 — the case of Rose McGroarty.

“Her body was cut up into pieces unfortunately and left in the Parkdale area. That was the first homicide case I worked on. We eventually solved that,” he recalled."
"He also said he will never forget investigating the murders of Ryerson Student Natalie Novak (who was killed in a domestic homicide) in 2006, the hit-and-run murder of Christopher Skinner in 2009, the gas-and-dash murder of gas station attendant Jayesh Prajapati in 2012. While discussing previous cases, he recalled the murder of 11-year-old Ephraim Brown."

"Nine-year-old Christine Jessop was murdered in 1984. An arrest has never been made.

Forty-five-year-old Susan Tice and 22-year-old Erin Gilmour were murdered four months apart and a few kilometres away from one another in 1983. Police said DNA links the two murders, but an arrest has never been made."
"Gallant is set to leave the service on Tuesday. Gallant will be starting a new job with a private security company called GardaWorld in 2020. He said the company, which presently provides security guard services and cash services to clients, wants to get into doing internal investigations."

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GUILTY - Canada - Rose McGroarty, 46, found dismembered, Toronto, ON, 11 Nov 2005

GUILTY - Canada - Jayesh Prajapati, 44, fatally run over in gas & dash, Toronto, 15 Sept 2012

CANADA - Canada - Susan Tice, 45, & Erin Gilmour, 22, Toronto, Aug & Dec 1983

 

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●On Monday, March 6th, 1978, Harold and Florence Fagan, 63 and 62 respectively, were found shot to death in their home on Dewbourne Ave., near Bathurst St. and Eglinton Ave. W. Their chauffeur found their bodies when he came to pick up Mr. Fagan at 8:30 a.m. They are believed to have been killed late Sunday, the 5th. They were last known to be alive at 8 p.m. Sunday when their daughter telephoned.
Harold was a well-known, well-liked entrepreneur and concession stand owner at the Canadian National Exhibition, and police believed the killer’s motive was robbery and that he was familiar to the victims. The Fagans were reported to have kept $500 in their house, and police theorized the killer thought he would find more cash.
A year and a half later, the triple murder of the Airst family (see case #1 above) brought renewed interest to the murder of the Fagans because of the superficial similarities between the two crimes. Both sets of victims lived in the same area (about 1.5 km apart), were well-off, and were prominent members of Toronto’s Jewish community.

●On February 2nd, 1973, 10-year-old Sheryl Blundell was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Stouffville, Ontario, about 40 km north of downtown Toronto. She and a friend were giving directions to a motorist when a passing vehicle struck both girls in front of 233 Main St. in Stouffville. Sheryl's friend was seriously injured. The offending vehicle left the scene and was last seen driving north on either 9th Line or Fairview Ave.
Link: www.police.york.on.ca/cold_cases/blundell.htm

●Margaret Cedrone, 57, was found murdered in her burning Highbury Rd. home when firefighters responded to a call at 6 a.m. on Tuesday, June 6th, 1989. Although she died of smoke inhalation, police ruled her death a homicide. The mother of five had last been heard from at 11 p.m. Monday night. No further information.

●The near-naked body of 23-year-old prostitute Julieanne Middleton was found on Thursday, July 7th, 1994 behind the pool in Sunnyside Park at Lakeshore Blvd. W. and Parkside Dr. She drowned in the waters of Lake Ontario after being strangled, presumably by a sex-trade customer.
On Friday, October 28th, 1994, another prostitute, Virginia Coote, 33, was found strangled in Lake Ontario behind the lakeside Palais Royale nightclub, just one or two hundred metres east of where Middleton’s body has been discarded. Police looked into the possibility the same person killed Middleton and Coote, as well as two additional prostitute murder victims, Darlene MacNeill and Donna Ogilve, who were found slain in 1997 and 1998 respectively.

●At 7 a.m. on Tuesday, August 16th, 1983, a co-worker found 27-year-old taxi driver Steve Goldie’s battered and slashed body in room 47 of the Penthouse Motel on Military Trail (at Kingston Rd.) in the Scarborough section of Toronto. Goldie died of a slashed throat, fractured skull, and brain injuries.
A resident of the motel said he overheard several voices arguing loudly over money at approximately 2 a.m., but instead of calling police he turned his radio louder. The victim, 6 feet tall and over 300 lbs, was described by friends and acquaintances as a gentle person, despite several brushes with the law.

Here is a report on the Sheryl Blundell hit and run case mentioned in the above post:

P.E.I. man was suspect in 1973 Ontario cold case; RCMP seek new leads | The Guardian

 

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Me again, sorry for all the posts!!

Toronto Police cold case unit continuing to add files to cases spanning decades
•Mar 9, 2020
Fil Martino gets the answer to how many cases are being studied in Toronto.

 

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Fresh initiative and $100k reward, started thread..
''Corporal William McIntyre was found in his Oakville apartment.
@680NEWS''

CANADA - Cpl. William McIntyre,33, $100K reward to solve 21 April 1984 murder of undercover OPP officer.

 

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Suspected wife killer on the run

By ROB LAMBERTI, QMI Agency
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/03/11/17586056.html


TORONTO - Almost five years later and suspected killer Henry Morales is still on the run.

The man vanished after allegedly strangling his wife Malena on July 13, 2006, in their Brampton apartment.

Before the body of the 31-year-old mother of two children was found, Morales escaped to Mexico.

By the time Peel Regional Police confirmed the identity of their suspect, he was gone.

The now 36-year-old El Salvadoran is wanted on a second-degree murder warrant and may have returned to his homeland, where he has family.

Homicide detectives recycled their plea Friday for information about the whereabouts of the suspect.

They have issued appeals in the past. Detectives turned to America's Most Wanted in 2009.

Malena Franco, born in Ecuador, met Morales while employed as a Canadian Tire maintenance worker

Sept 16 2020
WARMINGTON: Accused wife killer extradited from Mexico | Toronto Sun

A handcuffed Henry Morales is escorted into custody after landing at Pearson International Airport. Photo by Ernest Doroszuk /Toronto Sun
''Since 2006, Henry Stanley Morales has been playing catch me if you can with Peel Regional Police.
Members of Peel’s homicide squad always felt they would catch him.
Now they have.
The 44-year-old is accused of the brutal July 13, 2006 strangulation of his wife and mother of his two children, Malena, in Brampton. He’s now back on Canadian soil and before the courts.
Morales was charged with second-degree murder and held for a bail hearing Wednesday.''

 

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Oct 21 2020
''COLD CASE NOTEBOOK: There are literally hundreds of unsolved homicides in Toronto''

 

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Apparently Margaret McWilliam's family has contacted LE regarding the possibility that Russell Williams may have had something to do with her demise. Bernardo was a suspect in Margaret's death but he was discounted as he was not in the country when she was killed. Williams was quite possibly still in the area during this period as he had finished University (at the Scarborough Campus) the year earlier and was just entering official training at Base Borden. According to various articles, he officially changed his last name back to "Williams" in 1987. In a recently published article the McWilliams stated that they do not believe that their daughter knew RW but they were all living in Chalk River at some point and the McWilliams apparently did know RW's birth parents and occasionally encountered them at parties. I would think that these facts alone would make it worthwhile for LE to look further into this.

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It's interesting to note that a boot/shoe print was found at the scene (it was from a "rare" shoe/boot) and also that someone had seen a man wearing a red cap and a composite had been done but I haven't been able to find much more about this. One other thing I wanted to add regarding the "Bata" shoe. Bata used to have a manufacturing plant near Trenton. RW was earning his Wings at Borden/Trenton during this time period.

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Russell Williams, possible additional victims of Russell Williams: Margaret McWilliam, Christine Prince, Lois Hanna, Lisa Maas, Elizabeth Bain, and the unidentified female homicide victim known as the Nation River Lady. Consider: 1. his CFB postings and travel in S. Ontario, and 2. connections of at least three of these women to Scarborough, On. Some of these women lived there at one pt (Maas, Bain) or body found there-(Bain, McWilliam). Scarborough was his home as a youth & U student and 3. Connections of some of these women to Yonge & St Clair area, where he attended Upper Canada College. 4. Fact that his MO included breaking into and hiding in women’s’ homes. 5. Fact that he was close in age to these victims, so could possibly have lured some under pretext of a date...Also consider possibility he did not always act alone in his crimes. (LE suspects 2 abductors in Prince homicide.)

 

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...Correction to my above post. Bain’s body has never been found but her bloodstained car was found in Scarborough, On shortly after she went missing.

 

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Russell Williams, possible additional victims of Russell Williams: Margaret McWilliam, Christine Prince, Lois Hanna, Lisa Maas, Elizabeth Bain, and the unidentified female homicide victim known as the Nation River Lady. Consider: 1. his CFB postings and travel in S. Ontario, and 2. connections of at least three of these women to Scarborough, On. Some of these women lived there at one pt (Maas, Bain) or body found there-(Bain, McWilliam). Scarborough was his home as a youth & U student and 3. Connections of some of these women to Yonge & St Clair area, where he attended Upper Canada College. 4. Fact that his MO included breaking into and hiding in women’s’ homes. 5. Fact that he was close in age to these victims, so could possibly have lured some under pretext of a date...Also consider possibility he did not always act alone in his crimes. (LE suspects 2 abductors in Prince homicide.)

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2010
Police search home of air force colonel in murder probe
''Toronto cold-case investigators are probing whether Williams may be connected to two unsolved murders, according to one of the murder victims’ brothers. In 1983, Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice, were sexually assaulted and murdered within four months of each another in downtown Toronto. DNA evidence revealed that both women had been killed by the same man.''

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CANADA - Canada - Susan Tice, 45, & Erin Gilmour, 22, Toronto, Aug & Dec 1983