An inset of Donna Oglive, 24, over a photo of the parking lot in Toronto where she was found dead in 1998. Toronto Police Service
Toronto police have arrested and charged a man with first-degree murder 26 years after a pregnant woman was strangled and found dead at a parking lot.
Authorities attributed the arrest of 50-year-old Ronald Gordon Ackerman of Gander, Newfoundland, last week to DNA evidence and recent calls for information through a YouTube video and the Toronto Police Service podcast that features cold cases.
Ronald Ackerman, 50, of Newfoundland. Toronto Police Service
Police arrested Ackerman on Thursday at the Toronto Pearson Airport and charged him with first-degree murder. Authorities didn’t provide any additional details and Ackerman was remanded in custody in Toronto.
Donna Oglive, 24, arrived in Toronto in 1998, five weeks before she was killed, and was working in sex trade, Detective Sgt. Stephen Smith detailed in the police podcast in 2021.
On March 8, 1998, Oglive was found dead in a parking lot on Carlton Street and Jarvis Street, which was an area police said was known for sex trade. She was about four months pregnant at the time, according to investigators.