CANADA ON - Laura Nancy Hill, 22 years, Toronto, November 24, 1984

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Laura Nancy Hill - Toronto Police Service

The Unsolved Murder Of Laura Nancy Hill
Gender: Female
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Age at Death: 22 years
Date of Birth: June 5, 1962
Murdered on: November 24, 1984
Details: On Saturday, November 24, 1984, at about 3:30 p.m., police responded to an emergency call on Balfour Avenue near Barrington Avenue. The victim was discovered inside a residence, suffering from gunshot wounds and obviously deceased.

If you have any information regarding Laura's case, please contact Homicide:
Telephone: 416-808-7400
Email: [email protected].

Crime Stoppers
Telephone: 416−222−TIPS (8477)
Online at: www.222tips.com.
Calls are anonymous

 

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HUNTER: Toronto cops take run at young woman's unsolved 1984 murder

Her solid middle-class Leaside family said Laura Nancy Hill was a good girl, conscientious.

torontosun.com

Brad Hunter Nov 22, 2023

''Her solid middle-class Leaside family said Laura Nancy Hill was a good girl, conscientious.
Lately, though, the pretty 22-year-old legal secretary had fallen in with a rougher crowd. There was the botched pharmacy heist involving her boyfriend and others.''

“This was a senseless act of violence against a young vulnerable member of our community,” Det.-Sgt. Steve Smith, Toronto Police cold case unit chief, told The Toronto Sun. “Appallingly, Laura was shot dead in the sanctity of her own bedroom.”
The veteran detective has long been an advocate for genetic genealogy, which he used to clear the Christine Jessop, Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour cold cases that stretched back to the same era as Hill’s murder.

But for cops, everything old is new again.''

 

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Nov 29 2023

Cops turning up heat on 1984 east-end cold case murder

Nearly 40 years after Laura Nancy Hill was murdered with a single .22 calibre bullet at an east-end townhouse, cops are turning up the heat.

torontosun.com

'Nearly 40 years after Laura Nancy Hill was murdered with a single .22-calibre bullet at an east-end townhouse, cops are turning up the heat.'
Hill — just 22 at the time of the shocking unsolved Nov. 24, 1984 murder — is now getting the 2023 treatment.'

''Toronto Police detectives are retesting evidence and re-interviewing witnesses.

“We are in the process of having all the evidence on this case pulled, and I am working with a forensic officer at FIS (Forensic Identification Services) to go through it all piece by piece to see what items can be re-tested, re-printed and eventually sent back into the CFS (Centre of Forensic Sciences) for analysis,” Det. Andrew Doyle told The Toronto Sun.''
As to what happened that terrible November day in 1984, Brian Hill remains in the dark. The family has theories and suspicions, but that’s about it.

“The case was totally dropped for years, but now Andrew Doyle is on it, and it’s given us hope,” he said.''

“She wasn’t that type of person, she got mixed up with a boyfriend who was a guy with a bad, bad addiction,” he said.

Over the years, the Leaside family heard many different tales about what happened that day.

“When they arrested Joseph George Sutherland for the (cold-case) murders of Susan Tice and Erin Gilmour, it gave us new hope that maybe someday this would be solved,” Hill said.''

For his part, veteran detective Doyle believes Laura Nancy Hill’s murder can be solved.

“I am very hopeful on this one,” the cop said.''