Montreal police say they’ve resolved a long-standing cold case using genetic genealogy to identify the man who killed a woman in her apartment in 2008.
Catherine Daviau, 26, was killed in her Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie apartment in December 2008.
Montreal police Cmdr. Francois Sauve (L-R), Montreal police Cmdr. Melanie Dupont and Suzanne Marchand, senior executive director of the provincial crime lab, announce the resolution in the 2008 murder of Catherine Daviau during a news conference in Montreal, on Sept. 17, 2025. The Canadian Press/Sidhartha Banerjee
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