Toronto police still trying to solve 1998 murder of Filipina

Donna Oglive, 24, was murdered in Toronto, Canada in 1998.

TORONTO — Police cold case squad released another video appeal to identify a suspect in the 1998 murder of a pregnant Filipina woman, Donna Oglive, who was strangled to death downtown.

Oglive’s lifeless body was found on the morning of March 8, 1998, in the corner of parking lot on the east side of Jarvis Street, north of 130 Carlton Street.

Oglive, 24, is Filipino, about five-foot-five, and approximately 160 pounds. She had black, shoulder-length hair and was last seen wearing white, high heel boots, a mini skirt, and a fur jacket, according to a report by CP24.com.

Parking lot in downtown Toronto where Oglive’s body was found.

Investigators also learned that Oglive, 24, was four-months pregnant at the time she was killed. She had been a sex trade worker in the Gerrard Street East and Church Street area of Toronto, according to a police spokesman. She came from British Columbia to Toronto only about five weeks before her death.

Police have a DNA profile of the suspect, but his DNA is not in the data bank. They are asking for the public’s help in identifying him.