Toronto police identify woman found dead in 2017 by tracing DNA to Switzerland

Toronto police say DNA tests helped identify a woman found dead in Lake Ontario in August 2017 by leading investigators to her Swiss relatives, the latest cold case cracked by investigative genetic genealogy.

Police say in a press release that the woman's DNA matched that of someone reported missing in Switzerland earlier that year.

They say genetic genealogical testing later found distant relatives in North America, ultimately tracing them to a region in Switzerland. “In this case, the subject was actually from Switzerland and here visiting Canada. So we have to look way outside our borders — missing people have no borders,” Smith said in an interview.

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