CANADA Canada - Christine Prince, 25, Toronto, 22 Jun 1982

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HUNTER: Cold case cops ID serial killer who murdered three Toronto women​

Cold case detectives have identified a sex-crazed serial killer who viciously murdered three women between 1982 and 1997.

Kenneth Leslie Smith TPS
''Toronto Police and OPP cold case detectives have identified a sex-crazed serial killer who viciously murdered three women between 1982 and 1997.''

Smith died in Windsor in 2019. He was 72 at the time.

Det. Sgt. Steve Smith, of the vaunted TPS cold case unit, said “the murders were sexually driven,” and that the killer had done a substantial amount of time behind bars, “much of it federal.”

 

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Toronto police identify man who died in 2019 as serial killer in three cold cases

TORONTO - A man who died in 2019 has been identified as the killer in three cold case homicides, and investigators believe there could be more victims, Toronto police announced

www.thestar.com

''In 2022, police began working with forensic genealogy company Othram, and this year, Toronto police identified the family of Smith. Earlier this month, the Centre of Forensic Sciences conclusively identified Smith as the man responsible for all three homicides, police said. ''

 

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SOLVED!!
Back shortly with more info about SK, Kenneth Smith..

Thank you. Interesting this case was so close to me since I lived in Scarborough in the past and to have logged in 1 hr past the announcement is uncanny. I had logged in for a totally different case.

 

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Did you know a serial killer? Man lived in Windsor after escaping justice for several murders

Investigators believe there are more unknown victims.

windsorstar.com

Dec 13, 2025 rbbm.

''University of Western Ontario criminologist Michael Arntfield, who teaches seminars about one of the cases, said other crimes are “undoubtedly” the case. He thinks police in cities such as Windsor should consider Smith for certain unsolved crimes.''

“He hadn’t aged out of this behaviour between ’83 and ’97, essentially a 14-year expanse where we see a lot of serial offenders will sort of get their life on track or distract themselves or find something else to tamp down those urges,” Arntfield told the Star.''

“We know he’s got at least three,” said Arntfield, who has travelled the world teaching about the Prince case. “They’ve confirmed that. My guess is that it’s at least five.”

''Arntfield said the nature of the attack on Prince suggests she likely wasn’t his first victim.''

“Most serial killers have a type, they tend to start with an easier-access victim like a sex-trade worker,” he said. “In this case, he starts with a very high-risk victim, someone who is immediately noticed missing. Somebody whose umbrella was found about 100 metres from where she was billeting at the time.”

“It being dropped haphazardly suggests that she was essentially snatched very close to her door.”

 

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HUNTER: More victims for cold case killer likely, criminologist predicts

Kenneth Leslie Smith died of lung cancer in Windsor in 2019. Arntfield suspects there are more unsolved murders and sexual assaults.

torontosun.com

Dec 19, 2025

“Prince’s case ticked every box of a mid-career serial killer,” Arntfield told the Toronto Sun. “There are three crime scenes, the number of victims (three to five) and the fact he took souvenirs.”

''Aligned, he said, with research from the U.S. in 2014, which suggested that these characteristics are common to offenders who kill a statistical average of 3 to 5 victims before being arrested.''

“He hadn’t aged out of this behaviour. We see a lot of serial offenders will sort of get their life on track or distract themselves or find something else to tamp down those urges,” Arntfield said.

“If he was unable to do that in that span, my guess is he never really aged out of that behaviour. And anything, any open cases wherever he lived, are fair game until he died.”