Ottawa Police Use DNA From 1996 Murder to Identify Vancouver Stabbing Suspect

Ottawa Police Use DNA From 1996 Murder to Identify Vancouver Stabbing Suspect
A Ottawa Police Service (OPS) patch is seen in Ottawa, on Sept. 29, 2024. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby
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Former Ottawa police major crimes investigator Randy Wisker remembers making a “mad scramble” to get to a pay phone in the early morning hours of April 12, 1996, after a fatal stabbing on the Portage Bridge.

Emergency dispatchers had received a call for an ambulance to the bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., but the person who placed the call didn’t give a name.