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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Vancouver man has been charged with second-degree murder in a decades-old Ottawa cold case police say they cracked using cutting-edge DNA technology. Lawrence Diehl, 73, is accused of fatally stabbing 22-year-old Christopher Smith on the Portage Bridge connecting Ottawa and Gatineau …
Read More »El Salvador extradites suspect wanted in 20-year-old Ontario murder back to Canada
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say El Salvador has finally allowed the extradition of a man wanted for the murder of a woman from 20 years ago. Police said 26-year-old Rosaura Tolentino Ramos was found dead inside a home in the Finch Avenue West and …
Read More »Woman found dead in Lake Ontario identified years later through family in Switzerland
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say they have solved the case of a woman found dead in Humber Bay Shores Park in 2017 through genetic genealogy, linking her to family in Switzerland. Police said on the afternoon of Aug. 10, 2017, officers responded to the …
Read More »Property of woman who disappeared 51 years ago searched by Ontario police
Now over 51 years since the disappearance of a woman just north of Peterborough, Ont., investigators returned to her family’s property on Tuesday to conduct a search. Peterborough County OPP say 45-year-old Francis Muriel Harris (nee Johnson) was last seen on April 21, 1972, at her home on Highway 28 …
Read More »OPP make arrest in 50 year old cold case murder in Attawapiskat
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 27, 2023 11:20 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Ontario Provincial Police say they have charged a man in the 1973 killing of a woman in a remote northern First Nation. Police say an investigation into Helen Carpenter’s death in …
Read More »Man arrested in cold case of woman found in Ontario ‘dumped her body’ in river: docs
A man charged with murdering a woman who was found dead in eastern Ontario decades ago told police investigating the cold case that he dumped her body in a river, U.S. court documents show. The details of Rodney Mervyn Nichols’ conversation with Ontario Provincial Police at a Florida retirement home …
Read More »Police revisit disappearance of Ontario woman believed to be ‘victim of foul play’
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A former police detective says the disappearance of a Hamilton woman still “sticks” with him after more than two decades without resolution. Hamilton police restated a $50,000 reward for information in the Sheryl Sheppard investigation, 25 years after she went missing. Retired …
Read More »Forensic genealogy helps crack 1975 cold case of ‘Nation River Lady’ in eastern Ontario
The Ontario Provincial Police say they have finally identified the remains of a woman found dead nearly 50 years ago through DNA technology and forensic genealogy. They have also laid charges against an 81-year-old American man in connection to the cold case. On May 3, 1975, police said a farmer …
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