Woman murdered in 1936 and buried underneath building is finally identified

The remains of a woman murdered nearly a century ago and buried beneath a building have finally been identified thanks to modern forensic testing. The woman was identified as Mary McLeod Moffat (nee Davidson), a Scottish national who immigrated to Canada with her family in 1913, according to police and the laboratory that performed the testing.The culmination of the case brings closure to "one of Toronto's oldest mysteries," detective Michael Kelly, of the Toronto Police Service, told Canadian news site CTV News Toronto on Monday. The case couldn't have been solved without investigative genetic genealogy, a technique that uses advanced DNA profiling to build a "family tree" that can eventually help identify an unknown individual, said Kelly. Although police believe the woman's murder took place around April 1936, her remains weren't discovered until May 18, 1995, when workers uncovered them at a demolition site in Toronto, according to the Toronto Police Service. At the time, forensic exams determined that the woman was "intentionally buried," after being struck at least six times with "a hammer-like weapon," police said. A homicide investigation was opened to learn more about what...