Interim police chief James Ramer said officers arrested Joseph George Sutherland in Moosonee, Ont., last week on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice
TORONTO — A 61-year-old man living in northern Ontario has been arrested in the murders of two Toronto women who were found dead in their homes nearly four decades ago, police announced Monday, saying advances in genetic technology helped them crack the cold cases.Gilmour and Tice were found dead in their homes within four months of each other in 1983. Ramer said both women were sexually assaulted and stabbed to death.
Tice was a 45-year-old mother of four who held a master's degree in social work and worked with disadvantaged children, and Gilmour was a 22-year-old aspiring fashion designer, police said. The two women did not know each other. "Our family never wanted to give up on her," he said. "There was an incredible life to be lived that was taken away from her and the rest of us."
As they narrowed in on Sutherland, police said they served him with a warrant for his DNA to test directly against the samples recovered from the scenes. Officers with the Ontario Provincial Police arrested Sutherland without incident in Moosonee. He was thought to be living in Toronto in 1983, at the time of the killings.
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