A NINE YEAR OLD UNSOLVED MURDER

At 12:30 a.m. on August 27th, 1991 in Toronto, an assailant entered the apartment of a 63-year-old woman. At the time, her elderly father had just moved in from his Michigan home. While her 95-year-old father slept in the next room she was sexually assaulted and murdered in her bed, in the living room. The building superintendent discovered her body at 11:15 a.m. the next day. For the next nine years Peel Homicide Investigators continued their investigation. A few months after the official opening of Canada's National DNA Data Bank, on November 28th, 2000, biological samples from this Toronto case were submitted to the Crime Scene Index of the Bank. On May 4th, 2001 a convicted offender profile was submitted to the Convicted Offender Index of the National DNA Data Bank. On the very same day a match was established between the Crime Scene Index and the Convicted Offender Index. Shortly after, a suspect was identified and charged with sexual assault and first-degree murder.  

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