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Police charge man in 1998 killing of pregnant woman after identifying him using DNA

Police charge man in 1998 killing of pregnant woman after identifying him using DNA

TORONTO — A man has been arrested and charged in the 1998 homicide of a 24-year-old pregnant woman in Toronto after police say they used investigative genetic genealogy to crack the cold case. Det. Sgt. Steve Smith said Ronald Gordon Ackerman of Gander, N.L., had just gotten off a flight from Edmonton when he was […]

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