Toronto police homicide detectives are expected to provide an update into a 1998 cold case involving the murder of a young pregnant woman in the downtown core.

Donna Oglive, 24, was strangled in a parking lot in Toronto on March 8, 1998. Authorities have maintained that Oglive, who was a sex worker at the time of her death, was killed by a client.

The 24-year-old woman split her time between Toronto and Vancouver, where her family is from. An autopsy revealed she was four months pregnant with a boy when she was strangled.

Former Toronto police Detective Sergeant Stacy Gallant said that investigators were able to obtain a male’s DNA but could not positively ID that person in 2019.

“We’ll go out and find them, get their DNA, and try to match it to them,” he said.

Toronto police have used genealogy technology to crack cold cases by identifying unknown remains and tracking suspects through familial DNA analysis.

Steve Smith, Detective Sergeant of the Homicide and Missing Persons unit, will speak at a press conference at 10:30 a.m. on Friday.