Nadine Gurczenski was 26 when she died in 1999.
It’s been a quarter of a century since someone killed 26-year-old Nadine Gurczenski of Toronto. Now, the Niagara Regional Police Service says genetic genealogy has helped determine who did it.The family of Nadine Gurczenski of Toronto, who was 26 when she died in 1999, says she was a 'beautiful young woman inside and out.' The identity of her killer was a mystery until recently, when Niagara police used genetic genealogy to determine it was a man from northern Ontario who died in 2017.
"We want to recognize that Nadine was an incredibly important part of our family. She meant more than a news headline," read a statement police shared from the Gurczenski family. Knevel said police believed a truck driver was Gurczenski's killer, leading officers to check truck stops between Niagara and Mississauga, where she worked.
Durant was eventually convicted of one of those charges. When he was charged, police began investigating if he may have been responsible for the deaths of other sex-trade workers or exotic dancers.But in 2021, there was a new avenue to pursue, Knevel said. Although he died years earlier, police were able to get a DNA sample from Brousseau and compared it with the DNA profile from the crime scene.Familial DNA searches come with risks, rewards in solving MMIWG cold cases
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