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Niagara police say they’ve solved a 25-year-old murder using DNA and genetic genealogy connecting the death of a Toronto woman to a suspect from Northern Ontario. Homicide investigators say DNA evidence has linked the death of then 26-year-old Nadine Gurczenski with a New Liskeard truck driver who died in 2017. Gurczenski’s body was found in a “roadside ditch” on May 8, 1999, around 5 p.

m. in an area around Victoria Avenue and Eighth Avenue in the Town of Lincoln. “Three passing cyclists .



.. located a female’s body in the ditch on Victoria Avenue, which is in Vineland,” Det.

Staff Sgt. Andrew Knevel explained. Knevel says based on location, and the condition the body was found in, it was determined the 26-year-old club dancer from Mississauga had been murdered.

A postmortem conducted at the Center of Forensic Sciences in Toronto would determine the cause of Gurczenski’s death was a fracture in her neck via strangulation. Story continues below advertisement She would be identified weeks later when her husband Paul Gurczenski came forward after investigators publicly released photos tied to the crime. The email you need for the day's top news stories from Canada and around the world.

DNA evidence of a potential suspect, collected from the victim’s body, could not be matched with any individual since no profile existed within known crime databases at the time. Knevel says a dive by investigators into genetic genealogy and open-source databases, which allow cons.

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