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Toronto police have identified the remains of a man found dead in 1992 as Derek, a British-born man who moved to Toronto in the 1970s. The case was selected for investigation using genetic genealogy in 2025, and a DNA profile was uploaded to public-facing databases in January 2026. Derek was reported missing by his lawyer in December 1993, but the connection to the unidentified deceased man was not made at the time. The breakthrough came when police located Derek's fingerprints in another country, confirming they belonged to the same person. Derek is the 14th person identified through Toronto police's Project 31 initiative, which targets 31 open cases involving unidentified deceased individuals whose DNA is available for advanced forensic testing.
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