Twenty-one-year-old Lori Pinkus had just moved from Ottawa to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and was making her living as a sex worker. Her usual area was around Bloor Street and Landsdowne Avenue.
On the evening of Sunday, September 8th, 1991, Lori was drinking with friends at a bar in the same area where she worked. Not long after leaving the bar, though, a horrible fate would befall her.
The following morning, shortly before ten a.m., Lori was found beaten, strangled, and partially nude in the parking lot of Brockton High School on Croatia Street. She was still clinging to life when she was discovered, and first responders desperately tried to save her, but she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Several suspects were looked into at the time of the murder, and DNA was obtained from Lori’s body, but in 1991, the technology was insufficient to help solve the case. In 2018, however, Toronto police announced that they had successfully extracted a DNA profile of the perpetrator, though the profile didn’t match any offender currently in the national database. Detectives thus asked the public to come forward with information to aid them in finding the individual who murdered Lori Pinkus.
As of this writing in early 2024, the case remains unresolved.
Crime Immemorial 