Department used investigative genetic genealogy for the first time to make the arrest
Former Ottawa police major crimes investigator Randy Wisker remembers making a “mad scramble” to get to a pay phone in the early morning hours of April 12, 1996, after a fatal stabbing on the Portage Bridge.
“It’s right out of a movie. You know, you get to the phone booth and there’s this handset just kind of swinging freely,” Wisker said. “As if somebody just left 10 seconds ago, you know?” Police said in a statement that Lawrence Diehl, 73, was taken into custody by Vancouver police on Dec. 10 and returned to Ottawa, where he faces a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Smith.
Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs said they’ve spoken with the victim’s family, and investigators want to speak with people about Diehl’s time in Ottawa.
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