Canadian police said Friday there is a link between the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago and a now-deceased American fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s.
Alberta’s Royal Canadian Mounted Police Chief Inspector Dave Hall said Friday that Gary Allen Slaley may also be involved in unsolved murders and sexual assaults in western Canada, and authorities are linking him to other unsolved murders and sexual assaults. He said he is appealing to the public for any further information that could lead to unsolved cases.
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“We are announcing that we have uncovered a link between four unsolved murders from the 1970s and a serial sex offender who is now deceased,” Hall said at a news conference in Edmonton, Alberta. .
Slurry died of natural causes in a state prison in Idaho in 2011 while serving a life sentence for sexual assault.
RCMP Major Crime Branch Superintendent David Hall said at a press conference in Edmonton on Friday, May 17, 2024, that Alberta RCMP have arrested serial killer Gary Allen Slaley in connection with four historic murders. Talk about what connects you. (Jason Franson/Canadian Press, via AP)
Hall said the Canadian murder case was brought to an end when authorities began comparing the killer’s DNA to profiles on ancestry websites, eventually matching him to Slery.
Mr. Hall provided details of four Canadian cases related to Slery.
In 1976, Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen were both 14-year-olds living in Calgary, Alberta, and attending middle school, he said. He said the pair were last seen walking together in downtown Calgary, and their bodies were found the next day lying on the road under a freeway underpass on the city’s west side.
In the spring of 1976, 20-year-old Melissa Rehorek moved to Calgary from Ontario in search of new opportunities, Hall said. He said she was living as a housekeeper at the YMCA in downtown Calgary at the time of her death and was last seen by her roommate before going hitchhiking. Hall said her body was found the next day in a ditch in a township west of Calgary.
In 1977, Barbara McLean was a 19-year-old Calgary resident from Nova Scotia who had moved west just six months earlier, Hall said. He said McClain worked at a local bank and was last seen leaving a hotel bar. He said her body was found six hours later in a Calgary suburb.
Hall said authorities at the time did not reveal the cause of the two 14-year-olds’ deaths, but said Rehorek and McLean’s deaths were due to strangulation.
Hall said semen was collected from all four crime scenes, but the technology to find DNA matches did not exist at the time.
“If Sleery were alive today he would be 81 years old,” Hall said.
Alberta RCMP Trooper Brianne Brown said Slery had an extensive criminal history, including forcible rape, kidnapping and robbery, when he fled to Canada from California in 1974 and was arrested in New West, British Columbia, in 1998. He had been living in Canada illegally until he was arrested for sexual assault at the Minster.
Mr Brown said Slery used nine different pseudonyms during his life and frequently changed his appearance, residence and vehicles. She said he used a false name to obtain illegal identification and welfare and live a temporary life. He worked as an occasional cook in Calgary, Alberta from 1974 to 1979, and then in the Vancouver, British Columbia area from 1979 until his arrest and conviction for sexual assault in New Westminster. she said.
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Slurry was deported to the United States in 2003, convicted of sexually motivated crimes in Idaho, sentenced to life in prison, and ultimately died in 2011, Brown said.
“We know that Slery’s criminal activities spanned decades and spanned multiple jurisdictions and numerous pseudonyms. Alberta RCMP believe there are many more victims and Canada We’re asking for the public’s help in further advancing Sleley’s timeline,” Brown said.
