(Edmonton) The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) announced Friday that an American sex offender killed four women aged 20 and under in Calgary in the 1970s and that there may be other victims.
The RCMP compared the killer’s DNA with profiles on ancestor search websites, which led to a match with Gary Allen Srery.
The bodies of Eva Dvorak and Patsy McQueen, both 14 years old, were discovered under an overpass west of Calgary on February 15, 1976.
Later in the spring, Melissa Rehorek, 20, was found dead in a ditch near a gravel road outside of town.
The following year, the body of 19-year-old Barbara MacLean was discovered outside what was then the city limits of Calgary.
Gary Allen Srery was serving a life sentence for sexual assault when he died of natural causes in an Idaho prison in 2011.
The RCMP points out that he already had a lengthy criminal record in the United States when he entered Canada illegally in the mid-1970s.