DNA solves Calgary cold case

Mounties say U.S. sex offender killed four girls, women in the 1970s

- ROB DRINKWATER

Mounties say American sex offender Gary Allen Srery, who died more than a decade ago in prison, crossed illegally into Canada in the mid-1970s when he killed four women and girls in Calgary. Police believe there may be more victims.

EDMONTON An American sex offender, who died more than a decade ago in prison, killed four women and girls in Calgary in the 1970s - and there may be more victims, RCMP announced Friday.

Gary Allen Srery was serving a life sentence for sexual assault when he died of natural causes in an Idaho prison in 2011.

Mounties said he already had an extensive criminal record in the United States when he crossed illegally into Canada in the mid-1970s.

The bodies of Eva Dvorak and Patsy McQueen, both 14, were found on a road beneath an overpass west of Calgary in February 1976.

Later that spring, 20-year-old Melissa Rehorek was found dead in a ditch off a gravel road outside the city.

The following year, the body of 19-year Barbara MacLean was discovered outside what was then Calgary's city limits.