Police ‘optimistic’ more unsolved murders will be linked to U.S. serial killer

RCMP in Alberta say more tips have come in about serial killer Gary Allen Srery and possible links to B.C. and more victims.

“So far to date, we’ve received well over 50 specific tips related to Srery and his possible involvement not only in Alberta but British Columbia and a few stemming from the United States as well,” Travis McKenzie, head of the Alberta RCMP historical homicide unit, told Global News on Tuesday.

He said the team is “quite optimistic” that with this work they will be able to solve at least one or two unsolved homicides.

In May, Alberta RCMP announced a huge break in cold cases, saying Srery had savagely assaulted and killed four young women in Calgary – Eva Dvorak, Patricia McQueen, Melissa Rehorek and Barbara MacLean.

“We are taking a look at his whereabouts and locations, throughout Alberta in the mid to late 1970s, as well as British Columbia, the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast,” McKenzie said.

“What we’re doing with the tips is we’re taking them, we’re analyzing them with the information we know and that we don’t know. And in the cases where they’re outside of the province of Alberta, we’re speaking with the local detachments or different agencies that would have jurisdiction in those areas.”

Srery had an extensive criminal record in the U.S. involving sex crimes against young women.

Around 1974 he fled the U.S. after posting bail for a rape charge and then entered Canada illegally.

He’s known to have been in the Calgary area from 1975 to 1979 before spending more than two decades in B.C. on the Sunshine Coast and in the Fraser Valley.

In 1998, he was arrested for a violent assault in New Westminster and deported back to the U.S. in 2003 after serving a five-year sentence.

DNA was used to solve the four