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Toronto Police Solve 1991 Cold Case Murder
Authorities now know who killed Herbert Boone more than 30 years ago thanks to DNA.
Police in Canada have announced they have solved a 30-year-old cold case murder thanks to improvements in DNA testing.
It was April 16th 1991 when a 911 call reported some kind of trouble at a boarding house on Dundas Street East in downtown Toronto. Police officers were dispatched and discovered a man dead in an apartment from multiple stab wounds.
The victim was 43-year-old Herbert Boone, who had moved from his native Newfoundland to Toronto at some time during that year or the year before.
According to contemporary reports in the Toronto Sun, the building had been home to “some boozers and out-of-towners”, with Herbert not actually living in the apartment in which he had been found dead.
Instead, the tenant was a man known only as ‘Kevin’. Investigators later found blood-soaked clothes in a dumpster outside and discovered the killer had used a bathroom to wash Herbert’s blood off him before fleeing the scene.
Unfortunately, leads in the murder inquiry dried up and the case gradually went cold without any indication as to who the mysterious Kevin might be.
