CANADA Canada - Lilliane Lyle Ford - Found Strangled & Bitten at Crombie Park in Toronto - Multiple DNAs - 9 Sept '90

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Sept 7 2022

HUNTER: Sex worker's 1990 cold case murder 'has multiple DNAs'

In the files of The Toronto Sun, there is nary a mention of Lilliane Lyle Ford.

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''HUNTER: Sex worker's 1990 cold case murder 'has multiple DNAs'​

In the files of the Toronto Sun, there is nary a mention of Lilliane Lyle Ford.

''There are very few traces of her elsewhere for that matter. Cops offer a terse 199 words that are the summation of the 42-year-old woman’s time on this rock.

Ford’s appearance on the Toronto Police homicide page offers little flesh. She is one of the murder victims of September.
In her case, she was victim #0391990.

On Sept. 9, 1990, a couple walking their dog found her body around 7:30 a.m. in Crombie Park at the Esplanade and Sherbourne St. Her clothes were dishevelled and the pants she was wearing were pulled down.

An autopsy revealed that Ford — originally from the U.S. — had been strangled to death. She had suffered bite marks in the attack and had been sexually assaulted.

It had been a hard slide for Ford.

“She was separated and had developed an alcohol addiction,” Det.-Sgt. Steve Smith, of the cold case unit, told the Sun. “She had an apartment, but more often than not lived in women’s shelters.”
And she embarked on the perilous journey as a sex worker.


Smith added: “DNA was developed but at the time, it was insufficient. In fact, there were multiple DNAs from the bite marks and from semen.”

Victim Lyle FORD - Toronto Police Service

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Homicide #39/1990

Case #: None
51 Division
VICTIM

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Lyle FORD​

Age: 42
Gender: F
Murdered on: Sept. 9, 1990
Location: 51 Division

Details of Investigation:​

On Sunday, September 9th, 1990, at about 7:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call in the area of Sherbourne Street and The Esplanade. The victim was discovered in park, suffering from medical trauma. Despite life-saving efforts by emergency personnel, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

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Victim Lyle FORD - Toronto Police Service

www.tps.ca

Homicide #39/1990
Case #: None
51 Division
VICTIM

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Lyle FORD​

Age: 42
Gender: F
Murdered on: Sept. 9, 1990
Location: 51 Division

Details of Investigation:​

On Sunday, September 9th, 1990, at about 7:30 a.m., police responded to a 911 call in the area of Sherbourne Street and The Esplanade. The victim was discovered in park, suffering from medical trauma. Despite life-saving efforts by emergency personnel, the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

How you can Help​

If you have any information regarding this case, please contact Homicide at 416-808-7400, or at [email protected].

Crime Stoppers​

Phone anonymously at 416−222−TIPS (8477); or via the internet at www.222tips.com.

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[Alice Ramnit]

I was one of the last people who saw Liliane 'Lyle' alive. That evening I was shopping at Market Square and noticed her as my friend and I were walking back to her car. Liliane was wearing bike shorts and she stood out because she was walking with a tall dark haired man who was carrying a case of beer. He wasn't paying much attention to her and she looked as though she was trying to 'catch up' to him. When we got to the parking lot she was there with a different man who was more fair haired and square jawed. He motioned to my friend and I but he looked 'rough' so we just wanted to get in the car and get out of there. When I saw the newspaper in the next morning I immediately recognized the description of Liliane and called the Police. The homicide detectives came and picked me up and drove me to the TPS headquarters to take my statement and look at photographs to try to identify the men I saw her with...but sadly they all looked so similar and I couldn't make a positive identification. I remember saying that I thought that she looked like an artist, for some reason and the Detective said "Funny you should say that because she came to Canada from the US to go to art school. (I think Connecticut...but could be wrong). They also mentioned to me that there had previously been an argument and that she had thrown a bunch of clothes out a window. It has always been a huge disappointment to me that I was unable to help find out who strangled and murdered Liliane.

 

[Alice Ramnit]

Victim Lyle FORD - Toronto Police Service

www.tps.ca