Susan Tice had recently separated from her husband and moved from Calgary to a home in Toronto. On Aug. 17, 1983, the 45-year-old mother of four was found stabbed to death in her upstairs bedroom.
Four months later, 22-year-old Erin Gilmour (above) was murdered in her Yorkville home a few kilometres away.
Homicide detectives have determined through DNA evidence that the same man killed those two women.
“They never knew each other in life but they knew each other in death,” Det. Sgt. Reg Pitts said this morning.
Their unsolved murders are among about 50 cases posted on a new interactive web page that Toronto police’s homicide squad unveiled this morning. The web page, which they say is unprecedented in North America, is a comprehensive bank of current murder investigations and cold cases featuring videos, photos of victims, maps and links.
It invites members of the public to submit information in return for a reward of up to $50,000, though unlike Crimestoppers, the tip is not anonymous.
“The traditional means of communication has sometimes been inadequate,” Chief William Blair told a press conference today. “A very significant portion of our population, in particular young people in our city, get most of their information on the web.”
The homicide squad will eventually load all of its unsolved cases, about 300 going back to the sixties, on the Internet.
“The trail has gone cold but they’re not forgotten,” Chief Blair said.
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