George Charette looks over old photos in his McGregor home on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Police have laid charges in the 10-year-old murder of his daughter Michelle Charette. Toronto police detectives were in Windsor, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010, to interview that suspect in connection with the slayings of three Toronto prostitutes.
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WINDSOR, ONT. — Days after local police closed a 10-year-old cold case, Toronto homicide detectives were in Windsor Wednesday interviewing the same suspect about three more murders in that city.Windsor police charged Peter Dale MacDonald this week with second-degree murder for strangling Michelle Charette, 40, in the summer of 2000. MacDonald is already serving a life sentence for strangling James Campbell in his Toronto home in April 2000.Toronto police interviewed him Wednesday as a suspect in the slayings of three prostitutes. MacDonald is also suspected of killing a man in Prince Edward Island. He has not been charged in any of those killings.Police brought MacDonald from Kingston Penitentiary to make a court appearance in Windsor tod …
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Her partially clad and badly decomposed body was found Aug. 16, 2000, in an abandoned property near Drouillard Road and Trenton Street, three weeks after she was reported missing.
“There was insufficient evidence upon which we could secure a conviction,” Nikota said Tuesday.
He was forced to tell a judge in October 2003 that there was “no reasonable prospect” of pinning Charette’s murder on MacDonald.
An undercover Windsor police “sting team” trailed MacDonald and obtained samples of his DNA, said Nikota.
Despite the involvement of U.S. crime labs conducting sophisticated DNA tests not yet available in Canada, the results were inconclusive.
DNA SAMPLE
The DNA sample collected by Windsor police fit perfectly to the suspect in Toronto’s Campbell murder case.
MacDonald, who is known to several Canadian police agencies, has been labelled a “person of interest” in the unsolved killings of three prostitutes in Toronto and a homicide on Prince Edward Island.
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The partially clad body of Charette was found last Aug. 16 in an abandoned patch of land near Drouillard Road and Trenton Street.
Charette, described by family and friends as loving and trusting, had been missing from her Drouillard Road apartment for three weeks before a dog found her decomposing body.
McFarland said MacDonald was in the Windsor area at the time of the Charette slaying and questioned by police.
He described him MacDonald a drifter who was known to several Canadian police agencies.
A $5,000 reward for information leading to Charette’s killer was posted by Windsor police in September and is still outstanding.
MacDonald was also labelled a “person of interest” in the unsolved killing of three prostitutes in Toronto and a homicide in P.E.I., said Metro Police Det. Sgt. Mike Davis.
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