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http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/search.php

http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/coldcases.php
Cold Cases from February...

Homicide
Cold Cases

Statistically, Homicide investigators have been very successful in solving murders in Toronto. Overall, clearance rates, although varying year over year, have averaged near 80 per cent from 1921 until now. The Cold Case section continues to solve these homicides recognizing that, beyond statistics, there are still families and communities seeking answers and resolution to those murders that remain unsolved. Families of homicide victims will never forget the loss of their loved one, regardless of the passage of time and hope to one day receive news that a perpetrator has been identified and arrested.

Since 1996, through new opportunities in investigative techniques and advancements in scientific methods, Cold Case investigators have had success solving cases through the re-examination of old evidence. Despite forensic evidence, it is still important for investigators to hear from the public who may have information about past homicides.
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Investigation heating up again!
Wish LE would indicate which bars/rest. the two women attended, it might help, imo.

http://www.citynews.ca/2016/03/23/same-man-responsible-in-two-cold-case-murders-toronto-police/

Same man responsible in two cold case murders: Toronto police

Posted Mar 23, 2016

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Gallant said police were able to link the cases in 2000, using DNA evidence. They may have met their attacker before they were killed, Gallant said, perhaps in a bar or at a restaurant.

Gilmour’s family is offering a $200,000 reward for information.

“There is no doubt that there are people that are close to this suspect, or were close to him at the time, and you know that he did this. “I am confident of that,” Gallant said.
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Another cold crime warming up with some interesting info gleaned from suspect DNA!
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http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ronto-Crimes-Discussion&p=2396481#post2396481

From CrimeSolver's earlier posting..

●80-year-old Margaret McDonald died from the severe blows to the head and slashed throat she suffered at the hands of one or more intruders to her home on Lascelles Blvd (at Kilbarry Rd.) in the affluent Toronto neighbourhood Forest Hill on Friday, June 24th, 1994. McDonald was last heard from at 12:30 p.m. that day when she talked with a friend on the phone; her 26-year-old granddaughter found her body in her bedroom at 7 that evening. McDonald had also been sexually assaulted. The upscale house had been ransacked from top to bottom. The killer had gained entry by forcing open a rear sliding door.
The most probable suspect was a suspicious man seen in the area. He was described as white, early or mid-20s, 5’10”, medium build, black hair in a ponytail, wearing black leather pants and leather boots with large heels. DNA found at the scene could still lead to the killer, as could an expensive, distinctive ring the culprit stole from McDonald’s jewelry collection.

NEW!!

http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/34400
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Homicide #26/1994,
Cold Case: Margaret McDonald, 80,
YouTube video appeal


Broadcast time: 07:59
Monday, April 4, 2016

Homicide
416-808-7400


Homicide Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant is appealing to the public to help find who murdered Margaret McDonald, 80, on June 24, 1994.

Police continue to investigate the murder and have fingerprints and DNA evidence from the crime scene.

A recent DNA phenotyping test has narrowed the suspect to primarily European ancestry, white, likely to have blue or intermediate colour eyes and dark hair, approximately 5'10" and 20 - 30 at the time of the offence.

The offender likely lived in the area or knew the midtown area well and likely had trouble maintaining relationships with women
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CrimeSolver said:
Some more capsule murder summaries. Again, if anyone knows of any of these cases having been solved, please speak up.

●Sometime around 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 28th, 1987, 21-year-old receptionist Margaret McWilliam was raped and strangled to death while out for an evening jog in Warden Woods park in the Scarborough section of Toronto. Her body was found in the northeast sector of the park not far from subway tracks. Police found a clear footprint at the scene and were able to identify the type of shoes worn by the killer as rare Bata grey and white high-top sneakers with the letters AAU on the heel. They also had a composite drawn of a young man - a “witness” - wearing a red cap, who was seen leaving the park around 8 p.m. At one point police suspected the crime may have been committed by Frederick Merrill, an American fugitive featured on “America’s Most Wanted”, who was in Toronto at the time of McWilliams’s murder.

●On Tuesday, October 7th, 1975, 33-year-old data processing student Albert Chan was shot to death in the underground parking garage of his apartment building on Isabella St. in downtown Toronto. The killer stole Chan’s car and dumped it near the intersection of Carlton and Metcalfe Sts., not far from the crime scene.

●On Thursday, April 24th, 1980, Brink’s security guard Larry Roberts, 29, was gunned down with a machine gun in a well-planned robbery at Agincourt Mall, which is located at 3850 Sheppard Ave. E. in the Scarborough section of Toronto. His partner, 51-year-old Ted Montgomery, was shot and wounded. Multiple witnesses watched the incident go down as the three robbers grabbed the $178,500 the Brink’s men were transporting, dashed through a library and out the west side of the mall, jumped a fence that separated the mall from a nursing home, hopped into a car, and screeched out onto Bonis Ave. where they disappeared. A police manhunt failed to find the culprits, but police later found two cars nearby that had been stolen in Montreal and used by the robbers. The robbers were all described as white males between their late twenties and early forties. The gunman was described by witnesses as 40-45 years old, 175 pounds, with a short, stocky build, an olive complexion, a dark moustache and eyebrows, a strong jaw, a broad face. One accomplice was in his late-20s, 175 lbs, with a medium build and light to medium brown hair. The third man was described as 5’5” to 5’8”, 175 lbs, stocky, with medium to light hair. An investigation led police to believe the robbers were from Montreal, since the crime bore hallmarks of similar robberies there.

●Shortly before 8 a.m. on Thursday, February 10th, 1983, 42-year-old Philip Rimmington, Toronto’s deputy planning commissioner, was shot dead with a .22 handgun in the parking garage of the apartment building where he lived at 231 Balliol St., near Mt. Pleasant Rd. A nearby resident reported seeing a grey-haired man in his mid-50s fleeing the garage through a staircase at the northeast corner of the building shortly after the shooting. There were also reports that police had been called in weeks prior to the crime to investigate a stranger lurking around the parking area.
Rimmington, who was separated from his wife, with whom he had a 12-year-old daughter, was well-liked by his colleagues and was active in sports. In searching for a motive, police learned Rimmington did not have a tendency to engage in partisan political discussions or activities, so the possibility of angering someone through his work at city hall was virtually ruled out. Three guns owned by the victim were discovered missing, and for a time there was speculation he was shot with one of his own weapons.

●Maintenance man Donald Gibbons, 33, was stabbed to death with a butcher knife on July 18th, 1971 after chasing a man he believed was stealing a TV set from his apartment above a deli at Queen St. E. and Pape Ave. The killer ended up stealing a tape recorder and an amplifier belonging to Gibbons.
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New appeal for information on the Margaret McWilliam age 21, murder. DNA PROFILE created!
Homicide #36/1987
Cold Case: Margaret McWilliam, 21,
DNA profile of killer created,
YouTube video appeal


Broadcast time: 08:29
Friday, April 15, 2016

Homicide
416-808-7400


Homicide Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant is appealing to the public to help find who murdered Margaret McWilliam, 21, on August 27, 1987.

A DNA profile has been created from evidence from the scene of the crime.

Investigators are appealing to the public to help identify a suspect
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David Buller U of T Professor David Buller the To Catch Killer episode doesn't support the crazy student or gay bashing theories of the murder. They argue it was a colleague and a friend of Buller's gives two names which of course are bleeped out. His niece who thought it was a hate crime and has been an advocate of her uncle appears in the episode and seems relieved that it may not be. U of T is extraordinarily uncooperative with the show. They finally find someone who was a student at a Spadina bar. By the way at the bar (is this hearsay I hope not it might be worth laying down here an 'executive' of the est. says it was a family crime for insurance money).

https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?...885D20150202&p=to+catch+a+killer+david+buller
 
Bumping with a segment from CrimeSolver's post, as this case is listed in the TPS coldcases link.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ronto-Crimes-Discussion&p=3015428#post3015428
On Friday, May 20th, 1983, the body of 86-year-old Evelyn McIlraith was discovered in her apartment on Bloor St. W. at Ellis Park Rd. Her granddaughter and the apartment building superintendent made the horrible discovery. The elderly McIlraith, who had lived in the same abode since 1940, had been stabbed and beaten to death, possibly by a burglar she surprised as he was ransacking her apartment. She had last been seen by the superintendent’s son as she entered the building on Thursday afternoon, and police believed she was murdered sometime between 4 and 7 p.m. that day.
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http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/homicide/coldcases.php
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Evelyn
McILRAITH

Age: 86

Gender: Female

Murdered on: May 20, 1983

Location: 11 Division
Details of Investigation:
On Friday, May 20, 1983, at about 11:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call at 2001 Bloor Street W.

The victim was discovered inside an apartment residence, suffering from stab wounds. Despite life-saving efforts by emergency personnel, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
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CrimeSolver said:
●Patricia Stewart, a 71-year-old homeless woman known in her Parkdale neighbourhood as Patti, Rosie, and the Cat Lady, was found dead in the 9th-floor stairwell she called home at 200 Jameson Ave. on Sunday, February 18th, 1990. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. In the spring, police received several calls from an unidentified woman who appeared to know intimate details of the crime, but her calls ceased and a year after the murder police were appealing for her to contact them again.

●22-year-old Laura Hill was murdered in a second-floor bedroom in her townhouse on Balfour Ave. on November 24th, 1984. Hill, a legal secretary with a solid middle-class background, was shot in the head with a .22 calibre gun. Her parents said the headstrong but generally responsible young woman had been hanging around with a bad crowd for a couple of years.

●On the morning of Sunday, September 8th, 1991, the body of Lori Pinkus, 21, was found outside Brockton High School at 90 Croatia St., near Bloor St. and Dufferin St. in Toronto’s west end. The young woman, a high school dropout who worked as a prostitute and was addicted to drugs, had been strangled and left partially clad behind the school.

●Playing on a swing set in a Hamilton (a city 75 km southwest of Toronto) park near Fennell Ave. E. and Upper Ottawa St., just three blocks from her home, 4-year-old Cindy Williams was abducted on Friday, July 26th, 1974. The youngster had been playing with friends when, the children who witnessed the abduction later stated, a black Ford with a stripe on the hood, red primer paint on the driver’s door, and patches on the right front fender and hood, pulled up. Cindy ran over and climbed into the car. Earlier in the day, a 6-year-old acquaintance had seen her talking to a man in a dark suit. It was believed the man may have arranged to pick her up at the park later with the promise of candy or a doll.
On Wednesday, April 30th, 1975, a man gathering moss with his two children found a skull later identified as Cindy’s in a shallow grave near Grover Rd. and Highway 53 in the Burlington area, about 8 km from the abduction scene. Police found additional bones nearby, as well as the child’s shorts and running shoes. No further information in the newspaper on possible leads or suspects.

●As he and two friends headed to a party on July 24th, 1993, Nanh Van Le, 37, was shot to death by a masked gunman in a hallway of his apartment building on Lotherton Pathway, in the vicinity of Lawrence Ave. and Dufferin St. Le’s friends, who were also shot but later recovered, were unable to provide much of value in finding the culprit. No further information.
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Another of the cold cases highlighted by CrimeSolver is revisited by LE!
Started thread for Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams,4, abducted from Hamilton home and murdered 1974

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ome-and-murdered-1974&p=12592437#post12592437
May 21 2016 Jon Wells

The Forever Girl: Four-year old Cindy Williams was taken from her Mountain apartment in the summer of 1974
Her family holds out hope the killer will be revealed now that the 42-year old case has been reopened.
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CrimeSolver said:
●Michael Traynor, 26, an unemployed plumber, vanished from his hometown, Barrie, Ontario, on Tuesday, September 12th, 1978, after spending an evening at a bar with friends. A hunter found Traynor’s decomposed body on Monday, October 2nd in a densely forested area north of Barrie. His hands were tied behind his back with copper wire and he had a gaping gunshot wound to the chest.
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Barrie man pleads guilty to manslaughter in cold case murder

https://www.barrietoday.com/local-news/breaking-barrie-man-pleads-guilty-to-manslaughter-in-cold-case-murder-306880

Donald Feldhoff has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and improperly interfering with a dead human body in the 1978 cold case murder of Michael Traynor.
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Article today concerning Toronto Cold Cases..
http://www.citynews.ca/2016/06/06/c...solved-crimes-some-still-haunt-investigators/
Canada's cold case units dig into unsolved crimes; some still haunt investigators

by Liam Casey, The Canadian Press

Posted Jun 6, 2016
Canadian police forces handle cold cases differently. Police in Montreal and Ottawa do not have dedicated cold case teams, while Ontario’s York Regional Police has two detectives working full-time on long-unsolved murders.

In British Columbia’s lower mainland, the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has five detectives who look into cold cases dating back to 2003.

There is no national cold case database and no known national data exists, according to multiple forces interviewed by The Canadian Press.

In 2014, Brian Borg, who ran Toronto’s cold case unit until December 2014, wrote a report about overhauling the squad, parts of which Gallant is now implementing.

Since launching the website in February, Gallant says tips have started to come in — exactly what an old case needs to spur a new investigation, he says.


Gallant’s goal is to bring the unit from the dark ages of case management to the standards of modern-day policing.
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Canada is a uniquely difficult place for cold case detectives, according to both academics and investigators.

They point the finger at stringent privacy laws that limit the effectiveness of a DNA data bank combined with bureaucratic court processes and limited forensic and financial resources — all of which leave Canada’s resolution rate lagging behind those in countries that include the United States and the United Kingdom.

Regardless of the challenges, Gallant says his team continues to delve deep into old cases, re-examining every piece of evidence — with the help of scientists at the Centre of Forensic Sciences — and are “very close” to solving about a dozen cases.

The detective needs help from the public, he says. An anonymous phone call with a name is all that’s needed, Gallant says, then he and his team and the “magical” scientists at the lab will do the rest.
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http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/cold-case...dian-crimes-several-toronto-murders-1.2933230
TORONTO -- The unsolved murder of a Toronto business tycoon continues to irk retired detective Ray Zarb even though it's been almost 18 years since that summer morning when he first arrived at the bloody crime scene.

It was 7:24 a.m. on Aug. 13, 1998 when Zarb and his partner responded to a report of a shooting at an industrial parking lot.

When they arrived, the body of Frank Roberts -- the millionaire inventor of the Obus Forme backrest -- lay on the ground next to his Mercedes Benz SL 500 with one bullet hole to the head and two to the chest.

"I know who did it," says Zarb, who investigated the killing first as a fresh murder and then as an unsolved crime when he transferred to the Toronto police cold case squad years later.
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In 2014, Brian Borg, who ran Toronto's cold case unit until December 2014, wrote a report about overhauling the squad, parts of which Gallant is now implementing.

Since launching the website in February, Gallant says tips have started to come in -- exactly what an old case needs to spur a new investigation, he says.

The oldest cold case on the site -- that of 12-year-old Patricia Lupton -- dates back to March 9, 1959. She was last seen leaving home around 5:30 p.m. after receiving a call from a man who was responding to her babysitting ad. She was found strangled on a snowbank less than two hours later.
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https://www.google.ca/search?q=12-y...=1RJWV_LxMeTJjwTNlqbIDg#imgrc=w4Fo1BYgNGyIGM:

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12-year-old Patricia Lupton
 
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/06/11/who-killed-oliver-martin-and-dylan-ellis

Who killed Oliver Martin and Dylan Ellis?
Shooting of best friends remains unsolved eight years later

By Nick Westoll, Toronto Sun

First posted: Saturday, June 11, 2016
The sounds of a lone trumpeter will fill a midtown park Monday as friends and family of Dylan Ellis and Oliver Martin gather for a private memorial to the two men who were gunned down eight years to the day.

“For us, it’s a long-term, permanent fracture to our reality and a huge loss which continues eight years later,” Alan Dudeck, Martin’s stepfather, told the Sun. “They were at the peak of their life (and) both extremely personable and caring people.”

Ellis, 26, and Martin, 25, were shot and killed at close range outside of a Richmond St. W. apartment building early on June 13, 2008 while waiting inside a Range Rover to return a set of keys to a friend.

Who shot the pair? Police still don’t know. No suspect in the shooting has ever been named.
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