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Ontario cold case: DNA technology helps solve woman’s murder 25 years later, police say

Niagara police say they’ve solved a 25-year-old murder using DNA and genetic genealogy connecting the death of a Toronto woman to a suspect from Northern Ontario. Homicide investigators say DNA evidence has linked the death of then 26-year-old Nadine Gurczenski with a New Liskeard truck driver who died in 2017. …

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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 …

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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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