Same man responsible in two cold case murders: Toronto police
Posted March 23, 2016 1:55 pm.
Last Updated March 23, 2016 2:03 pm.
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Toronto police have reopened their investigation into two unsolved murders from 1983 and they believe the same man is responsible.
A relative found Susan Tice, 45, dead in her home on Grace Street on Aug. 17, 1983. She had four children. Four months later, a friend found Erin Gilmour, 22, dead in the bedroom of her apartment on Hazelton Avenue.
“They did not know each other in life. Unfortunately, the two women are forever linked together in their deaths,” Det. Sgt. Stacy Gallant said in a YouTube video released on Wednesday.
Gallant said police were able to link the cases in 2000, using DNA evidence. They may have met their attacker before they were killed, Gallant said, perhaps in a bar or at a restaurant.
Gilmour’s family is offering a $200,000 reward for information.
“There is no doubt that there are people that are close to this suspect, or were close to him at the time, and you know that he did this. “I am confident of that,” Gallant said.
“We have his DNA. All we need from you is his name.”
This isn’t the first time police have put out an appeal for more information. In 2008, as police launched a new cold case website, they said both Tice and Gilmour had been sexually assaulted and fatally stabbed.
