CANADA Canada - Cassandra Do, 32, Toronto, 25 August 2003

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Cassandra Do

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Murdered on: August 25, 2003

Location: 52 Division
Details of Investigation:
On Monday, August 25, 2003, at about 10:30 p.m., police responded to an emergency call at 60 Gloucester Street.

The victim was discovered inside an apartment residence, suffering from medical trauma, and obviously deceased.

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

 

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On Aug. 25, 2003, the lifeless body of 32-year-old Cassandra Do was discovered in the bathtub of her apartment on Gloucester Street in Toronto.

Police later determined that Do, a transgender woman believed to be working in the sex-trade, had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

During the course of their investigation, detectives discovered that the young woman, who also went by the name "Tula," was scheduled to meet with a client on the day she was killed and it is believed the person who murdered her left behind DNA evidence stemming from the sex assault.

Police say the national DNA databank was unable to pull up a name but the forensic evidence was linked to another sexual assault from 1997.

Despite securing a suspect description from the surviving victim of that 1997 attack, police were ultimately unable to identify the man they believed to be responsible for both crimes.

http://www.cp24.com/news/police-hop...o-unsolved-murders-with-new-website-1.2781183

 

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Intriguing info, CD is referenced just past half way mark.
imo. speculation.
http://www.spoc.ca/bd0304.html

 

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In the spirit of trying to " connect these cases to other parts of the world where the offenders may be hiding," the unsolved murder of an Asian airline worker in Vancouver, comes to mind.
imo speculation.
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-Cold-Case-Gay-Murder&p=11242578#post11242578
Vancouver, Edgar Leonardo, Aug 23, 2003, Cold Case, Gay Murder.


http://www.cp24.com/news/police-hop...o-unsolved-murders-with-new-website-1.2781183

Police say the national DNA databank was unable to pull up a name but the forensic evidence was linked to another sexual assault from 1997.

Despite securing a suspect description from the surviving victim of that 1997 attack, police were ultimately unable to identify the man they believed to be responsible for both crimes.

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Similar to the Do case, some of the investigations listed on the website have forensic evidence that links a particular suspect to a crime but simply don’t have a name to connect to the case.

In some of the cases where a possible perpetrator has been identified, investigators simply do not know the suspect’s whereabouts.

“This (website) allows us to connect these cases to other parts of the world where the offenders may be hiding,” Saunders said

rbbm.

 

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Cassandra Do, 32, who was known on the street as Tula, was found on Aug. 25, 2003, strangled in the bathtub of her apartment at 60 Gloucester St., near Church and Wellesley Sts.

April 15 2012
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/15/putting-heat-on-cold-cases

Using DNA samples, investigators confirmed her killer also sexually assaulted another prostitute in 1997.

That victim described her attacker as black, about 6-foot-3, 230 pounds and wearing thin wired glasses.

“He also used the name Victor,” Ryan said.

rbbm.

 

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[video=youtube;HHyYEq9Cq4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHyYEq9Cq4Q[/video]

 

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Bumping, Cassandra was briefly referenced in this recent video about another transgender woman who went missing from the area.
http://www.cp24.com/video?clipId=1258325

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?355755-Canada-Alloura-Wells-27-transgender-Toronto-July-2017&p=13749778#post13749778
[h=2]Canada - Alloura Wells, 27, transgender, Toronto, July 2017[/h]

 

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Ms Do is referenced in this lengthy article.
http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/a...s-gay-village/
Dec 15 2017

A common thread emerged, both sitting in on the town hall and in my conversation with Toronto police: The Gay Village and its environs simply has more missing persons and more unsolved murders than other parts of Toronto. From Cassandra Do, a transgender woman who was discovered strangled in her bathtub in 2003, and whose death remains unsolved; to Larry Arnold, who was murdered in 1994 and whose assailant was only identified after being charged with a different killing. The Village, even as it is supposed to be a safe space for the LGBTQ community, can sometimes feel like it has a target on its back.