CANADA Canada - Graham Pearce, 36, Toronto, 20 March 1983

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http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/34556

Homicide Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant is appealing to the public to help find who murdered Graham Hugh Pearce, 36, on Sunday, March 20, 1983.

At around 12.40 p.m., on Sunday, March 20, 1983, 11 Division officers responded to a call for a sudden death in an apartment at 35 High Park Avenue.

The body of Graham Hugh Pearce was found on his bathroom floor, with a stab wound. He was a single, gay man, living with a roommate who called police after arriving home and discovering the body.

Detective Sergeant Gallant said the investigation revealed Pearce was bar-hopping on March 19. “That night, he visited Boots Bar on Sherbourne St. and Stages Bar at Yonge St,” said Gallant.

During the ongoing investigation, throughout the years, a Person of Interest, Ronald Thomas Gale, then 22, was identified through evidence. The identification however, was made after he had died.

Investigators are appealing to anyone who knew Ronald Gale, or who his friends and associates were, in 1983.

Investigators are also appealing to people in their 50s and 60s in the gay community who may have information.

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http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/police-se...micide-that-took-place-33-years-ago-1.2867183

Police search for clues in High Park homicide that took place 33 years ago

Graham Hugh Pearce, 36

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRhd0UjswTs&feature=youtu.be


Help find a Killer – Did you know Ronald Thomas Gale?
Toronto Police Service

Published on Apr 20, 2016

Homicide Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant is appealing to the friends or associates of a deceased suspect, identified in the murder of a Peel region elementary school teacher 33 years ago to contact him.

Full story at: http://tpsnews.ca/stories/2016/04/pol...

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-7400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.

 

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http://www.insidetoronto.com/news-s...3-murder-of-single-gay-man-in-high-park-area/

COLD CASE: Toronto police appealing for leads in 1983 murder of single, gay man in High Park area
Person of interest Ronald Thomas Gale died in 2001 before being ID’d in case

Graham Hugh Pearce, 36, died on Sunday March 20, 1983 around 12:40 p.m. after being fatally stabbed in an apartment at 35 High Park Ave.

Pearce’s roommate called police after arriving home to find Pearce dead on the bathroom floor.

Pearce was a single, gay man, who was a teacher in Peel Region, police said.

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Toronto police homicide Det.-Sgt. Stacy Gallant said the investigation revealed Pearce had bar-hopped the night before his death on March 19, 1983.

“That night, he visited Boots Bar at the Selby Hotel on Sherbourne Street and Stages Bar at Yonge Street,” Gallant said.

Pearce drove home that night after 3 a.m. in his vehicle, a 1973 Plymouth, “along with his would-be killer or killers,” Gallant said.

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http://www.cp24.com/news/police-close-1983-cold-case-after-determining-that-suspect-has-been-dead-for-16-years-1.3240066

Homicide victim Graham Hugh Pearce, who was found dead in 1983, is shown in this handout photo. (Toronto Police Service)

Last Updated Friday, January 13, 2017 12:31PM EST

Police say that they have closed a 34-year-old homicide case after determining that a person of interest died in 2001.
The case dates back to March 20, 1983 when police were called to an apartment building on High Park Avenue by the roommate of 36-year-old Graham Hugh Pearce.
Upon arrival, officers located Pearce’s lifeless body on a bathroom floor. A post-mortem examination then determined that Pearce had died as a result of a stab wound.
In April, police issued a news release appealing for information in the decades-old cold case.
At the time, police said that they had identified Ronald Thomas Gale, then 22 years old, as a person of interest in the case but had only done so after his death.

 

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Bumping this case in light of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur's arrest.

 

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Where are you Graham??!?!

 

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Wonder why they deemed Ronald Thomas Gale, then 22 years old, a person of interest in the case but only after RTG's death???

:thinking:

 

[Snively]

If the police were willing to go out on a limb and say "if he were alive today we would be arresting him" it's very likely they matched Ronald Thomas Gale to a DNA sample. He was likely in the DNA database but they hadn't got around to checking the Pearce sample or entering Gale's sample into the system until after he had died.

 

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• MAR 14, 2023
• Toronto police close 1983 High Park cold case murder
• ''Investigators from the Homicide - Cold Case section reviewed the case recently and, as a result, a person of interest was identified.
  However, that the person of interest had died in 2001.
  Had this person of interest been alive today, he would have been arrested and charged with murder, police say.
  Police are not identifying the suspect because he is dead.
  This cold case is now considered resolved, police said.''