A woman described by police as a serial killer was arrested and charged Friday with three murders that occurred earlier in the week in Toronto, Niagara Falls and other Canadian cities. The gruesome attack spanned three days from Tuesday to Thursday.
“She’s a serial killer,” Niagara Regional Police Chief Bill Fordy told reporters when asked if that label was appropriate.
Sabrina Caldahl, 30, was arrested at a hotel in a Toronto suburb after police linked the murders and determined the suspect description matched each case. Police said detectives are also trying to determine the identity of a woman who was seen on surveillance footage buying clothing that was in Mr. Koldahl’s possession at the time of his arrest on Tuesday.
Police are seen outside the residence of suspected serial killer Sabrina Calder in Toronto on October 4, 2024. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images
Calder is charged with murder in the deaths of a 60-year-old woman at her home in Toronto, a 47-year-old man at a Niagara Falls park and a 77-year-old man in a parking lot in Hamilton, Ont.
Investigators told AFP that the first victim was found in Toronto with "visible trauma” to her body, which her attackers knew.
Fordy said the suspects, identified by police as Mario Bilic and Lance Cunningham, appear to have randomly targeted victims in Hamilton and Niagara Falls.
Mr Fordy said the two men “were both doing their job and we believe it was an indiscriminate attack.”
Police encountered Cunningham in Niagara Falls after responding to an emergency call about a disturbance. He was pronounced dead at the park.
Cunningham’s wife, Kim, told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that the couple have a 13-year-old daughter.
“He didn’t deserve this,” she said in an email to the outlet. “I want my husband back.”
Police said in a statement that Mr Bilic, a former teacher, suffered “serious injuries consistent with stab wounds” after the suspect allegedly followed him to his car in a Hamilton parking lot. He later died at the hospital.
“Investigators were able to link the Hamilton murder to a recent murder at John Allen Park in Niagara Falls and determined the suspect matched the description from both incidents,” police said in a statement. “Further links have been made to an active homicide investigation that has been ongoing since October 1 in Toronto.”