Toronto police say investigators used DNA evidence to identify a suspect who they believe is responsible for the murders of three women in the 1980s and ’90s.

Deputy Chief Robert Johnson said genetic genealogy has linked Kenneth Smith to the decades-old murders of three Toronto women: 25-year-old Christine Prince in 1982; 23-year-old Claire Samson in 1983; and 41-year-old Gracelyn Greenidge in 1997.

Mr. Smith died in 2019 at the age of 72 in Windsor, Ont. Police said there was nothing connecting the women to each other or to Mr. Smith, describing the killings as crimes of opportunity.