TORONTO 1982 Cold Case Solved After 43 Years — Three Women, Three Decades, One Man

#ColdCase #Toronto #DNA For 43 years, the murders of three Ontario women appeared to have almost nothing connecting them. Christine Prince. Claire Samson. Gracelyn Greenidge. 🔔 Subscribe to Cold Case Reckoning for Canadian cold cases, forensic breakthroughs and investigations that refused to be forgotten. Christine was murdered in 1982. Claire was killed the following year. Fourteen years later, Gracelyn was murdered inside her North York apartment. At all three crime scenes, the killer left behind his DNA. In 2016, forensic scientists discovered that two cases shared the same unidentified DNA profile. Gracelyn's case was connected the following year. Then investigative genetic genealogy changed everything. In 2025, a family tree built from distant DNA relatives led investigators to Kenneth Smith. Forensic testing subsequently identified Smith as the offender in all three homicides. But Smith had died six years earlier. Three women. Three decades. One man. #ColdCase #TrueCrime #GeneticGenealogy #Canada #ColdCaseReckoning 📚 REFERENCES & FURTHER READING Toronto Police Service Ontario Provincial Police Centre of Forensic Sciences Othram Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner National DNA Data Bank