FOUR cold case murders are solved after 40 years as cops link victims to notorious American serial killer

Decades after four Canadian women were mysteriously killed, officials 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 murderer of Alberta's Eva Dvorak, 14, Patricia McQueen, 14, Melissa Rehorek, 20, and Barbara MacLean, 19, in the 1970s. 

The U.S. fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid 1970s to the late 1990s died in 2011 after being sentenced for life in a state prison in Idaho. 

Srery was identified as the killer through advanced DNA analysis of the semen found at the scenes and criminal databases - which eventually linked all four of the victims to him. 

Gary Allen Srery, a notorious American serial killer and convicted rapist, has been linked to the death of four women

Clockwise from top left: Eva Dvorak, 14, Patricia McQueen, 14, Barbara MacLean, 19, and Melissa Rehorek, 20, were all killed by Srery

Alberta RCMP historical homicide investigators announced they had 'definitively' established Srery was responsible for the murders. 

'Between February 1976 and February 1977, four young females were found deceased outside of Calgary, Alberta. For 50 years, their murders went unsolved. 

'As of 2024, all four homicides have been linked to one serial killer,' RCMP officials said today. 

Authorities believe all of the murders were sexually motivated and there may be more victims. 

Authorities believe all of the murders were sexually motivated and there may be more victims

Staff Sergeant Travis McKenzie, head of the Alberta RCMP historical homicide unit said in a news conference: 'He has a consistent pattern of regularly committing sexual-based offences (in the U.S.), getting charged, getting convicted. 

'And then when he comes to Canada, it's almost like he disappears. So our biggest concern is there are other victims out there we don't know about.

'It pains us that he's dead. I'd love nothing more than to be standing here before you and tell you we just put handcuffs on this guy. 

'But unfortunately, that's not the way this one ends.'

According to Alberta RCMP Inspector Breanne Brown, Srery used nine different aliases in his lifetime and frequently changed his appearance, residence and vehicles through illegal identification

The bodies of Dvorak and McQueen, both grade-nine students at Ian Bazalgette Junior High School in Calgary, were found under the Happy Valley Overpass about a mile outside of the city in February 1976. 

Investigators could not determine the cause of death for both of the teenagers.  

Rehorek's fully-clothed body was found 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 beside 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 in his lifetime and frequently changed his appearance, residence and vehicles through illegal identification.