Ecuador held an International Symposium on Forensic DNA in the Service of Justice
The objective of this event was to open a public debate on the use of criminal DNA databases and the advantages of using the genetic fingerprinting of victims and perpetrators to increase criminal prosecution and reduce impunity.
A murderer who escaped for more than four decades was discovered thanks to Forensic DNA.
One of the women murdered in 1983 in Toronto was Susane Tice, a social worker and mother of four teenage children, who was found dead in the second-floor bedroom of her home with multiple stab wounds to the chest.