Toronto police are set to provide an update this morning about a pair of murder cases that have gone unsolved for nearly four decades
Erin Gilmour was found dead at her Hazelton Avenue apartment in Yorkville on Dec. 20, 1983. The 22-year-old aspiring fashion designer had been sexually assaulted and stabbed. She was found dead that night by her boyfriend
Susan Tice is pictured in this undated photo. (Handout / Toronto police)
In 2000, DNA evidence linked Gilmour’s killing to another fatal stabbing, that of Susan Tice. The 45-year-old woman had been murdered four months earlier in 1983 at a home on Grace Street, near Harbord Street, in the Bickford Park area
Tice was a mother of four who had recently moved from Calgary to Toronto following a divorce
Rewards for information about the cases have been offered over the years, but the search for the women’s killer has remained elusive
For years, there was little to link the killing of the two women aside from DNA evidence
However police said last year that they were narrowing in on a suspect using genealogy and family tree websites. They said they believe, based on the new information, that the suspect was likely from a small town in Canada and was visiting Toronto at the time of the murders. But more testing was needed to be sure, they said
The news conference is set to get underway at Toronto police headquarters at 10 AM. Toronto Police Chief James Ramer will be in attendance, as well as Deputy Chief Pauline Gray and Detective Sergeant Steve Smith of the Homicide and Missing Persons Unit Cold Case section
Joshua Freeman, CP24 Web Writer
