The body of a person found floating in Lake Ontario’s Inner Harbour area in 1992 has been identified as a Saskatchewan man who police say was not reported missing.

The man was found on July 27, 1992, when police responded to a call for a man’s body found in the water. At the time it was determined the death was not suspicious, police said.

The identity of the man came after the case was selected for investigative genetic genealogy in 2025. A DNA profile of the man was obtained and uploaded to public databases on Jan. 8, 2026.

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According to police, less than five days after it was uploaded, investigators said they believed the unknown man could be named Kevin, who was originally from Saskatchewan.

This led investigators to people believed to be Kevin’s relatives in Western Canada. A DNA sample was obtained from a close relative and sent to the Centre of Forensic Sciences for comparison.

Last month, DNA testing confirmed on March 9 the unknown man was indeed Kevin. His family was then notified about the positive identification and they were provided with details of where he had been buried.

Police say Kevin was never reported missing, but “those who loved him had long feared what had happened to him” as they hadn’t heard from him for years.

A surname was not provided by police for Kevin and no further information was provided why one was not included.

The investigation was conducted as part of Toronto police’s humanitarian initiative known as Project 31. The initiative began in 2022 and has since identified 10 people.

Project 31 was named for the 31 open Toronto Police Service cases involving long-term unidentified deceased people who have DNA material readily available. The goal is to identify all 31 people through DNA-based investigative techniques, including using investigative genetic genealogy.

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A 65-year-old Arizona woman has been charged with murdering her newborn decades after the baby was found dead on a North Dakota college campus — with DNA testing finally exposing her as the mother.

Nancy Jean Trottier was arrested on April 7 for the murder of the baby, named “Rebecca” by police, who was found on the Valley City State College campus about 100 miles outside of Bismarck, North Dakota, in 1981, Valley News Live reported.

When police discovered the newborn, she was stuffed inside a plastic bag with her umbilical cord still attached.

Trottier, a student at the college from 1978 to 1982, is accused of suffocating the newborn after an autopsy revealed the baby was alive at birth and that the trauma was consistent with acute asphyxia.

The case sat cold and unsolved for nearly 45 years, until advances in DNA technology gave investigators a new lead, prompting them to reopen the case and exhume the baby’s body in July 2019, according to an affidavit obtained by Valley News Live.

DNA extracted from the newborn’s remains produced a genetic genealogy report by August 2020, pointing to possible relatives and leading investigators to identify Trottier as a suspect.

When Trottier was interviewed by police in October 2021, she allegedly told investigators, “Maybe it was me,” and “It could be, maybe it was me,” and agreed to provide a DNA sample, the outlet reported.

Investigators also collected DNA from her husband in December 2021.

The results, returned in June 2023, were staggering — it was 3.481 quadrillion times more likely that the baby was the biological child of Trottier and her husband than any outside party.

Investigators also found DNA consistent with Trottier’s profile on tissue paper recovered from the scene in 1981.

Trottier, who had been living in Sun Lakes, Ariz., made her initial appearance in Barnes County court in North Dakota on Monday.

She faces a Class AA felony murder charge, the most serious felony classification in North Dakota, in connection with the death of the newborn. Trottier faces life in prison without parole if found guilty.

After Barnes County State’s Attorney Tonya Duffy announced the murder charge Monday, Valley City residents visited Baby Rebecca’s gravesite, Valley News Live reported.

Locals told the outlet the unsolved case had cast a shadow over their town for decades.

“I was a senior in high school when this happened at the college. Our family was involved in this; we had a funeral home in Valley City,” resident Lance Peterson said, adding that he’s happy the case is finally getting closure after all these years.

“It’s been a long, trying ordeal. She’s here now, we’re at the cemetery. Yeah, it’s good closure for Valley City.”

Trottier’s preliminary hearing and arraignment are scheduled for May 21, 2026, at 1 p.m.