Toronto’s Forgotten Five: The Sex Trade Worker Stranglings

Benita, Susan, Donna, Lori, Lyle – Was One Man Hunting Them All?

From the mid-1980s to the late-1990s, five women walked Toronto’s streets and never came home.

Benita “Bonnie” Tarantino, 17.
Susan Siegel, 20.
Donna Oglive, 24.
Lori Pinkus, 21.
Lyle Ford, 35.

All were sex trade workers. All were moved from where they were last seen. All were strangled.

Their lives were complicated, messy, and human. Their deaths were treated like background noise. Police chased tips, explored suspects, and developed DNA profiles… but decades later, their cases remain unsolved.

In this episode, we retrace their final nights, examine DNA, timelines, locations, and known predators from the era, and ask a chilling question: was there at least one serial killer targeting sex trade workers in Toronto?

These are their stories, so they shall not be forgotten.

Because every case deserves answers—and every victim deserves justice.

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