Decades after four Canadian women were mysteriously murdered, authorities have been able to link their deaths to a notorious American serial killer and sex offender.
Gary Allen Srery, a convicted rapist, has been identified as the killer of Eva Dvorak, 14, Patricia McQueen, 14, Melissa Rehorek, 20, and Barbara MacLean, 19, from Alberta in the 1970s.
The American fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s died in 2011 after being sentenced to life in prison in an Idaho state prison.
Srery was identified as the killer through advanced DNA analysis of semen found at the scene and criminal databases, which ultimately linked all four victims to him.
Gary Allen Srery, a notorious American serial killer and convicted rapist, has been linked to the deaths of four women.
Clockwise from top left: Eva Dvorak, 14, Patricia McQueen, 14, Barbara MacLean, 19, and Melissa Rehorek, 20, were killed by Srery.
Alberta RCMP historic homicide investigators announced they had “definitively” established that Srery was responsible for the murders.
‘Between February 1976 and February 1977, four young women were found dead outside Calgary, Alberta. For 50 years, their murders remained unsolved.
“As of 2024, all four homicides have been linked to a serial killer,” RCMP officials saying today.
Authorities believe all of the murders were sexually motivated and that there may be more victims.
Authorities believe all of the murders were sexually motivated and there may be more victims.
Sergeant Travis McKenzie, head of the Alberta RCMP’s historic homicide unit saying at a press conference: ‘He has a consistent pattern of regularly committing sexual crimes (in the United States), being charged and convicted.
‘And then when he comes to Canada, it’s almost like he disappears. So our biggest concern is that there are other victims out there that we don’t know about.
‘It hurts us that he is dead. I would love nothing more than to stand here in front of you and tell you that we just handcuffed this guy.
“But unfortunately it doesn’t end like that.”
According to Alberta RCMP Inspector Breanne Brown, Srery used nine different aliases throughout his life and frequently changed his appearance, residence and vehicles through illegal identification.
The bodies of Dvorak and McQueen, both ninth graders at Ian Bazalgette High School in Calgary, were found under the Happy Valley overpass, about a mile from the city in February 1976.
The researchers were unable to determine the cause of death for the two teenagers.
Rehorek’s fully clothed body was found on September 16, 1976 in a ditch along a gravel road about 12 miles west of Calgary. Police noted that she had been strangled to death.
MacLean was also found fully clothed and strangled to death next to a gravel road near 80th Avenue and 6th Street in Calgary on February 26, 1977.
According to Alberta RCMP Inspector Breanne Brown, Srery used nine different aliases throughout his life and frequently changed his appearance, residence and vehicles through illegal identification.