Toronto police say they have identified the killer of three women in separate homicide cases dating back to 1982.

Through DNA testing, or investigative genetic genealogy, police have identified Kenneth Smith as the killer of Christine Prince, Gracelyn Greenidge and Claire Samson, Det. Sgt. Steve Smith said in a video statement provided by Toronto police Thursday.

The three women were killed in separate incidents between 1982 and 1997, Smith said. Prince was killed in 1982, Samson in 1983 and Greenidge in 1997.

The cases had no leads and went cold shortly after the investigations began, Smith said.

In 2016, he said police found a link between the deaths of Prince and Samson. Then in 2017, they found a link between those two slayings and Greenidge's, Smith said.

From there, police began

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