An Ontario mother pleads for answers 15 years after her son's murder

Tyler Cheese · CBC News

· Posted: May 24, 2025 6:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: May 24

Fifteen years aft her lad was killed by an chartless shooter, a Port Perry, Ont., parent says she believes determination are radical retired determination who tin assistance lick his murder, and she hopes they're acceptable to travel forward.

On Feb. 7, 2010, Glenn Lowe Jr. — past 30 years aged — was changeable dormant astatine the backmost doorway of his Toronto home. The shooter was ne'er found. 

Now, connected what would person been her son's 46th birthday, Dale Lowe is appealing to those she believes person much accusation astir the incident. 

"Please person immoderate compassion," she said  in an interview this week. "Even if you don't deliberation that it's important, delight travel forward. Respond to the constabulary requests. If you cognize immoderate further accusation and you've ne'er been questioned by the police, travel forward, springiness them a call."

Police accidental the location astatine 1562 Jane St., wherever Glen Lowe lived astatine the clip of the killing, was being utilized arsenic a increasing cognition for marijuana. Lowe was a plumber by commercialized and his parent told CBC Toronto helium was helping friends instal an irrigation system. He was changeable conscionable aft 11 p.m. and a pistillate wrong the location called 911 aft uncovering him connected the structure of the house. 

Acting Det. Sgt. Steve Smith with the Toronto Police Service's homicide and missing persons portion said investigators judge idiosyncratic astatine the house, oregon who was connected to the increasing operation, apt has much information.

"We cognize that there's radical that cognize who the slayer is," helium told CBC Toronto. "We cognize that there's radical progressive successful that cognition that were buying and selling the marijuana, arsenic good arsenic radical that were surviving successful the location with him astatine the time. And we're beauteous definite that immoderate of these radical know."

Toronto constabulary are offering a reward of up to $50,000 for accusation connected the murder.

For Dawn Lowe, solving this lawsuit would mean everything for her family. 

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"My daughter, it's affected her for the remainder of her life," Lowe said. "My hubby has ne'er recovered. I consciousness his nonaccomplishment each day."

Lowe is hopeful that circumstances person changed for the radical who mightiness person much information, allowing them to travel guardant arsenic constabulary continue their investigation.

Aside from tips, Det. Sgt. Smith says advancements successful subject and exertion often assistance investigators lick acold cases similar this one.

"One of the biggest ones is investigative familial genealogy," helium said. "If we tin find DNA of the offender successful immoderate of our cases, we're beauteous assured that we tin way the offender down." 

Unfortunately, that maneuver astir apt won't beryllium overmuch assistance successful Lowe's case, according to Lorraine Heath, a forensic DNA consultant.

"There doesn't look to beryllium immoderate accusation suggesting that determination was overmuch contact, carnal contact, betwixt the perpetrator and the victim," she said successful an interview. "DNA investigation unluckily … requires immoderate benignant of interaction oregon interaction between the unfortunate and the perpetrator."

Investigator says there's ever anticipation successful immoderate acold case

But Det. Sgt. Smith says there is inactive hope. 

"We've solved 12-, 30-, 40-year-old cases. So we're inactive moving connected each these cases, particularly successful this case, and we're hoping that astatine immoderate constituent we tin reason it," helium said.

Like Lowe's mother, he's asking anyone with much accusation astir the shooter to travel forward. 

"We recognize that there's circumstances successful everybody's life," Smith said. "This was 15 years ago. Mr. Lowe deserves justice. So if you cognize anything, delight springiness america a call. Give Crime Stoppers a telephone anonymously. Whatever you request to do, conscionable get america that information."