A woman described by police as a serial killer was arrested on Friday and charged with the murders of three people in separate attacks this week in Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Hamilton, Ontario.
The string of violent incidents occurred over three consecutive days from Tuesday to Thursday. Niagara Police Chief Bill Fordy confirmed that the suspect, Sabrina Kauldhar, aged 30, was apprehended in a suburban Toronto hotel after investigators linked the cases, matching descriptions of the assailant from each crime scene.
Kauldhar is facing murder charges for the deaths of a 60-year-old woman in Toronto, a 47-year-old man in a Niagara Falls park, and a 77-year-old man in a parking lot in Hamilton.
Chief Fordy confirmed the label “serial killer” was appropriate, saying that the suspect appeared to have randomly targeted her victims in Niagara Falls and Hamilton. However, police believe the first victim in Toronto, who was found with visible trauma to her body, had been known to her assailant.
The second murder occurred after emergency services were called to a disturbance in a Niagara Falls park, where the victim was found and pronounced dead at the scene. The third victim, a retired schoolteacher, was attacked in a Hamilton parking lot after being followed by the suspect to his vehicle. Police described the man as having significant injuries consistent with stab wounds, and he later succumbed to his injuries in hospital.