Toronto police say the use of DNA alongside genetic genealogy has helped them identify a suspect in a cold case murder of a 47-year-old man in 1982.

On May 17, 1982, Kevin McBride died of multiple stab wounds inside of his apartment on Sheppard Avenue East near Markham Road, police said.

McBride was last seen two days before his body was discovered by officers who went to his apartment for a wellness check after he did not show up to dinner plans with friends, police said.

Det. Sgt. Steve Smith, with Toronto Police’s cold case unit, told Global News that McBride was an art dealer.

“It appears to us as though it was a robbery,” Smith said. “Obviously our victim had numerous pieces of art that were valuable. We know that the offender actually lived in the same place as the victim during a small portion of time.”

You can read more in an article by Gabby Rodrigues published in the globalnews.ca web site at: http://tinyurl.com/4xu456b5