{"id":2247591,"date":"2024-05-18T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deaths-of-four-young-females-linked-to-deceased-american-fugitive\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T18:45:13","slug":"deaths-of-four-young-females-linked-to-deceased-american-fugitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deaths-of-four-young-females-linked-to-deceased-american-fugitive\/","title":{"rendered":"Connection Found Between Four Young Women&#8217;s Deaths and Deceased American Fugitive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeaths-of-four-young-females-linked-to-deceased-american-fugitive%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Canadian authorities have connected \u200bthe\u2063 deaths of four young women from the 1970s to a deceased U.S. fugitive who had sought refuge \u200cin Canada. The fugitive, Gary Allen Srery, passed away in 2011 while \u200cserving a sentence for sexual assault. DNA \u2063comparisons and ancestry \u200cwebsites aided in establishing the link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/serial-killer-known-as-the-i-65-killer-identified-after-30-years\/\" title=\"Serial Killer Known As The \u2018I-65 Killer\u2019 Identified After 30 Years\">unsolved cases<\/a>. The deaths of four young women from the 1970s have been linked to the deceased U.S. fugitive, Gary Allen Srery, who sought refuge in\u2062 Canada. \u200dSrery \u2064passed away in 2011 while serving a sentence for\u2064 sexual assault. The connection to the unsolved cases was established using DNA comparisons and ancestry websites.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/%20\"><span>The Associated Press<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 17, 2024 at 12:33pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young females nearly 50 years ago to a now-deceased U.S. fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Dave Hall said Friday that Gary Allen Srery might also be linked to unsolved murders and sexual assaults in Western Canada, and authorities are asking the public for more information that might connect him to other unsolved cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now announcing that we have linked four previously unsolved homicides from the 1970s to a now-deceased serial, sexual offender,\u201d Hall said at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-trump-campaign-holds-press-conference-to-outline-viable-path-to-victory\/\" title=\"Watch Live: Trump Campaign Holds Press Conference to Outline 'Viable Path to Victory'\">news conference<\/a> in Edmonton, Alberta.<\/p>\n<p>Srery died in 2011 in a state prison in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/defense-team-trying-push-idaho-student-murder-trial-summer-2025-demands-case-moved-another-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Idaho<\/a> of natural causes while serving a life sentence for sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>A break in the homicides in Canada came when authorities began comparing DNA of the killer with profiles on ancestry websites, which eventually led them to a match with Srery, Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>He provided details of the four Canadian cases linked to Srery.<\/p>\n<p>Hall said that in 1976, Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen were 14-year-olds living in Calgary, Alberta, and attending junior high. He said the two were last seen walking together in downtown Calgary and that the following day their bodies were found lying on the road under a highway underpass west of the city.<\/p>\n<p>In the spring of 1976, 20-year-old Melissa Rehorek moved to Calgary from Ontario for new opportunities, Hall said. He noted that at the time of her death, she was a housekeeper living at the YMCA in downtown Calgary and was last seen by a roommate before she went hitchhiking.<\/p>\n<p>Hall said the following day, her body was located in a ditch in a township west of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tucker-carlson-calls-justin-trudeau-tells-coming-liberate-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calgary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Will more victims be found?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1977, Barbara MacLean was a 19-year-old Calgary resident from Nova Scotia who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/extremists-in-portland-attack-police-officers-vandalize-businesses-set-fires\/\" title=\"Extremists In Portland Attack Police Officers, Vandalize Businesses, Set Fires\">moved west<\/a> only six months earlier, Hall said. He said MacLean was working at a local bank and was last seen leaving a hotel bar. Hall said her body was found six hours later just outside Calgary.<\/p>\n<p>Hall said authorities at the time didn\u2019t come up with a cause of death for the two 14-year-olds but said Rehorek and MacLean\u2019s deaths were attributed to strangulation.<\/p>\n<p>Semen was collected from all four crime scenes, but technology did not exist at the time to find DNA matches, Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWere Srery alive today, he would be 81 years old,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta RCMP Insp. Breanne Brown said Srery had an extensive criminal record, including forcible rape, kidnapping and burglary when he fled to Canada from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/christian-teacher-fired-objecting-california-schools-transgender-policies-gets-last-laugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California<\/a> in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>He lived in Canada illegally until his arrest for sexual assault in New Westminster, British Columbia, in 1998, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Srery used nine different aliases in his lifetime and frequently changed his appearance, residences and vehicles, Brown said. She said he obtained illegal identification and social assistance through aliases and lived a transient lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>He occasionally worked as a cook in Calgary, Alberta, from 1974 to 1979 and then in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area from 1979 until his arrest and conviction of sexual assault in New Westminster in 1998, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Srery was deported in 2003 to the United States, where he was convicted in Idaho for sexually motivated crimes and sentenced to life <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/teacher-run-serious-allegation-facing-15-years-prison-30000-fine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in prison<\/a>, where he died in 2011, Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that Srery\u2019s criminality spanned decades over multiple jurisdictions and numerous aliases. The Alberta RCMP believe there are more victims, and we are asking the public to assist in furthering Srery\u2019s timeline in Canada,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-44902\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/ap-reports\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-44902\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-44902\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-44902\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-44902\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Associated Press is an independent, not-for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-case-involving-trump-17-house-democrats-and-the-biden-administration\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Trump, 17 House Democrats, and the Biden Administration\">-profit news cooperative headquartered<\/a> in New York City. 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