Erin Gilmour biography: 10 things about aspiring fashion designer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Erin Gilmour was a Canadian woman from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is David Gilmour and Anna McCowan Johnson‘s daughter.

David was a businessman born in Toronto. Johnson and Donald K. Johnson have two sons namely Sean McCowan and Kaelin McCowan.

Erin was an aspiring fashion designer. Here are 10 more things about her:

1. She studied fashion at Ryerson University in Toronto.
2. She and her fellow Toronto resident Susan Tice did not know each other.
3. Her boyfriend Anthony Munk‘s father Peter Munk was born in Budapest, Hungary.
4. In 1958, her father and Peter co-founded stereo maker Clairtone. In 1969, the two men bought property in Fiji and started the hotel chain Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation.
5. In 1970, her mother gave birth to her brother Sean.
6. In 1972, her mother gave birth to her brother Kaelin.
7. She lived with her mother and her brothers Sean and Kaelin but in 1981, she moved out and lived in an apartment in Yorkville, Toronto. She worked as a store manager at Robin’s Knits, a high-end boutique just below the apartment.
8. On December 19, 1983, Sean and Kaelin slept over at in her apartment in Yorkville.
9. On the morning of December 20, 1983, she drove Sean and Kaelin back to their mother’s house. Before 6:00 p.m., a co-worker left Robin’s Knits in Yorkville and gave the key to her to lock up the store at 9:00 p.m. Anthony was supposed to pick her up for a date at 9:00 p.m. but he was delayed by 20 minutes when he stopped to withdraw money at a bank. He later found her dead in her apartment in Yorkville. She was sexually assaulted and fatally stabbed in her bed by Joseph George Sutherland, the same man who killed Tice on August 17, 1983. She was 22.
10. On October 5, 2023, Sutherland pleaded guilty to murdering her and Tice.