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Podcast: Closer Look
Episode: How police tracked down a serial killer they didn’t even know existed
Description: For decades, a serial killer in Ontario went completely unnoticed. No one had any idea he even existed.His victims — Christine Prince, Claire Samson and Gracelyn Greenidge — were sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Toronto between 1982 and 1997. But for years, not a single piece of evidence led police to suspect their killings were connected.That all changed last week.Using an emerging forensic technique known as investigative genetic genealogy, Toronto Police and the OPP say they were able to “conclusively identify” the man responsible for the murders: Kenneth Smith, who died in...