Joseph George Sutherland, 61, arrested in 1983 Toronto killings of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice. “This is a day that I, and we, have been waiting almost an entire lifetime for,” Sean McCowan, Gilmour’s brother said.
Soon after Susan Tice was found dead inside her Toronto home in August 1983, police admitted they had few leads on who sexually assaulted and stabbed the 45-year-old mother and social worker. As a detective said at the time: “We have no suspect at all.”
Last week — via a combination of advanced genetic sequencing, forensic genealogy and traditional police work that’s now regularly cracking open decades-old cases — investigators arrested 60-year-old Joseph George Sutherland from Moosonee, Ont., a remote community far removed from the slayings that police allege he committed nearly 40 years ago. The charges against Sutherland have not been proven in court.
“Obviously we’re going to look into every possible connection to any possible case throughout Ontario to ensure that he isn’t responsible for any other offences,” Smith said. The cases are just the latest advanced through genetic genealogy, a cutting-edge process that has breathed new life into old cases all but declared unsolvable.
Smith told reporters Monday that the scientific advances were the only way the cases were ever going to be solved. Sutherland — who was around 22 years old at the time of the murders — was never a suspect in the case, nor had he ever been interviewed. Four months later, on Dec. 20, Gilmour — an aspiring clothing designer from a wealthy family — was found dead in her nearby Yorkville apartment. Her father, David Gilmour, had been the business partner of tycoon Peter Munk, co-founder of the mining company Barrick Gold; the Star reported at the time that Munk’s son was the one who found her body.
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Joseph George Sutherland, 61, arrested in 1983 Toronto murders of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice“This is a day that I, and we, have been waiting almost an entire lifetime for,” Sean McCowan, Gilmour’s brother said.
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DNA advances help Toronto police arrest suspect in cold case murders from 1983Police arrested Joseph George Sutherland in Moosonee, Ont., for first\u002Ddegree murder in the 1983 deaths of Erin Gilmour and Susan Tice.
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