Cold Case

• Saturday marks 50 years since Sarnia, Ont., teen’s suspicious death, still no answers

  Karen Caughlin, a teen from Sarnia, Ont., was killed under suspicious circumstances 50 years ago. Saturday marks the anniversary of her death, and the investigation remains open.

  Canada

  Mar 16
  
• ‘Your free life is done’: Victim’s family tells cold-case killer at Toronto sentencing

  'You murdered and assaulted two wonderful women and went on to live your life. Your free life is done,' said a family member to the convicted killer a 1983 cold case.

  Crime

  Mar 4
  
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• Quebec cold case conviction highlights advances in DNA research techniques

  The the speed of the Grenon verdict 'speaks for itself in terms of just how compelling this technique is,' a criminologist and professor at Western University said.

  Canada

  Feb 23
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• Quebec cold case murder: Defence says accused killed victim but denies premeditation

  The Criminal Code of Canada defines first-degree murder as “planned and deliberate," however a murder is also first degree if it occurs in the course of a sexual assault.

  Crime

  Feb 15
• Accused in Quebec cold case admits he killed teenager in 2000: Crown

  A Crown prosecutor says the Quebec man charged with the 1st-degree murder and sexual assault of a 19-year-old CEGEP student nearly 24 years ago has admitted to causing her death.

  Crime

  Feb 14
• Quebec cold case murder suspect chooses not to testify or present defence: lawyers

  Marc-André Grenon has pleaded not guilty to killing Guylaine Potvin, who was found dead in April 2000 in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., some 215 kilometres north of Quebec City.

  Feb 12
• Suspect in 2010 Oshawa murder arrested after landing in Canada from South America

  Nearly 14 years after a 32-year-old man was murdered in Oshawa, a wanted man has been arrested in connection with the killing after landing at Pearson Airport, police say.

  Crime

  Feb 2
• ‘A long 35 years’: Murder charge laid in Canadian cold case thanks to genetic genealogy

  Byron Carr's 1988 murder shook P.E.I. to 'its core,' Charlottetown's police chief said on Friday. Police believe he was killed after a sexual encounter with another man.

  Canada

  Jan 26
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• Quebec police tracked cold case suspect to cinema, trial hears

  A Quebec police officer described how he and his partner tracked a suspected killer to a movie theatre, before secretly taking his discarded soft drink cup for a DNA test.

  Crime

  Jan 25
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• Webpage seeks tips on cold Kingston homicide, missing person cases: ‘Someone knows something’

  A new Kingston police webpage looking for tips in unsolved homicide and missing person investigations features nine unsolved cases dating back to 1970.

  Crime

  Jan 24