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A suspected serial killer from the United States is believed to be the person responsible for the decades-old deaths of four Calgary females and the RCMP believes investigators may link more deaths in Western Canada to the now-deceased man.
At a news conference in Edmonton on Friday, police said Eva Dvorak, 14, Patricia McQueen, 14, Melissa Rehorek, 20, and Barbara MacLean, 19, were all believed to have been killed in the 1970s by Gary Allen Srery.
Police said ahead of each of the four victims’ deaths, they had been walking in the evening. All four died of asphyxiation and their bodies were left outside of Calgary’s city limits. In each case, seminal fluid was found on the victims but police noted that at the time of their deaths, there was no way to test for a DNA profile of a suspect.
That changed in the 2000s because of technological advancements made in policing. Since then, the RCMP began to narrow down a list of suspects that originally began with 853 people.
In 2003, police used DNA analysis to confirm that the same suspect was linked to the deaths of both Rehorek and MacLean. The RCMP said that at that time the suspect’s DNA was compared against the National DNA Databank without a match.
“The profile was uploaded into the databank and went without a hit for over 20 years,” police said in a news release.
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