Toronto police explain how investigative genetic genealogy led to a cold case arrest in Moosonee

A Toronto detective says police would never have pinpointed a Moosonee man as the offendor in the historic murders of two Toronto women, 40 years ago, if it weren’t for recent developments in investigative genetic genealogy. Erin Gilmour, 22, and Susan Tice, 45, were both killed in their Toronto homes in 1983; sexually assaulted and stabbed to death. Further investigation led police to arrest Joseph George Sutherland in Moosonee in 2022.

Detectives were able to link the two killings using DNA technology in 2000, according to the Toronto Police Service, with investigators determining the same man killed both women. That's where investigative genetic genealogy, through the use of increasingly popular ancestry-tracing websites, helped lead investigators to the James Bay coast.Police cleared suspect's brothers before arresting him for grisly 1983 killings of 2 Toronto women

Toronto police released this image of Joseph George Sutherland which they say was taken in the 1980s.

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