{"id":835861,"date":"2026-07-30T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835861\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:32:29","slug":"patrick-santos-murder-cold-case-unit-to-provide-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/835861\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Santos murder: Cold case unit to provide update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 7:12AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 6:33AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto police will be providing an update this morning on the murder of 21-year-old Patrick Santos, whose lifeless body was found bound and beaten in the backyard of his Scarborough home nearly 20 years ago. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GNUNCG2BHFBKPJ577AC5CEE3BQ.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Patrick Santos Patrick Santos is seen in this photo released by Toronto police. (Toronto Police Service handout) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police previously said that Santos\u2019 father discovered his son\u2019s body on the back patio of his home on Bridlington Street at around 7:20 a.m. on Sept. 17, 2006. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His feet and hands were bound, police said, and there was tape wrapped around his head. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He had been beaten and suffocated, according to police. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VRPFCQJGZNCG3AN57UX447QYIY.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"605\"\/>Santos, homicide Patrick Santos was found dead in the backyard of his Scarborough home in September 2006.(CTV News archives) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The last time anyone had contact with Santos was at 4:30 a.m. that morning. Police said he spoke to his girlfriend on the phone and told her he was returning home from a downtown nightclub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A DNA profile of a suspect was generated at the time but a match was not identified in the National DNA Data Bank.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Det.- Sgt. Stephen Smith, of the cold case unit, is expected to provide an update on the investigation at a news conference at 10:30 a.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 7:12AM EDT Published:\u00a0July 30, 2026 at 6:33AM EDT Toronto police will be providing an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-835861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}