Toronto Police say 61-year-old Joseph George Sutherland murdered Susan Tice, 45, and Erin Gilmour, 22, in their homes in separate attacks four months apart.
The probable cause document states that an unspent .40 caliber round found near the bodies of teenage friends Abigail Williams and Liberty German matched a firearm found at suspect Richard M. Allen's residence.
Daniel Arthur Bell is accused of taking part in the shooting death of 21-year-old Gregory Nickell, whose body was found in his burning vehicle a short time later. Bell, as well as an unknown accomplice, reportedly took turns raping Nickell's girlfriend — a crime that led to a wrongful arrest 20 years later.
The investigation into Simon Clarke's death had gone cold in 2004 but a new witness who was at the scene of the crime and remained haunted by what transpired in November of 2001 eventually agreed to tell police what he knew, giving investigators the break they needed to make an arrest.
Richard Allen initially told the court that he wanted to obtain his own attorney, but then penned a letter, stating he "had no clue how expensive it would be."
The wife of 58-year-old Archie Rutherford found him in their "blood-soaked bed" with an electrical cord tied around his neck. Officials now say DNA has led to the arrest of Tracy Pruitt, who served 27 years in prison for an unrelated rape and robbery.
Carrie Timmons, mother of 14-year-old Libby German, says she didn't expect her daughter's alleged killer to "literally be living right under everyone's noses."
Martin Motta pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in the murder of George Seitz, who left for a haircut in 1976 and never returned. Motta, his barber, admitted to stabbing Seitz in the head, dismembering the body and disposing of the parts around his neighborhood in Queens.
