[BRIEF NOTE] Byron Carr
Feb. 19th, 2008 09:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldA while ago, I was surprised to see a couple of articles on CBC Prince Edward Island (1, 2) describing how local police were reopening the case of the 1988 murder of Charlottetown schoolteacher Byron Carr and reaching out to the local GLBT community for help. Katie Smith's article in The Guardian, "Posters next step in Carr murder investigation", neatly summarizes the situation.
Jim Day's two article in The Guardian, a 24 November article titled "On the hunt" and a 26 November article titled "A double life" go into greater detail on the case. Setting Wild conspiracy theories on discussion boards to one side, it looks like Carr was murdered by a trick one lonely night in Charlottetown. That might explain why I remember the local print news media to have been somewhat reticent in talking about the case.
It's funny, but until I ran into those articles I never thought of that sort of thing happening on Prince Edward Island. Ah well, we're human after all.
On Saturday, members of the Charlottetown police force teamed up with members from the Island’s gay community to put up posters with Byron Carr’s picture, asking the public to bring forward any information they might have.
Carr was 36 when he was found strangled and stabbed in his Charlottetown home in November 1988.
The lead investigator for the case said there wasn’t an initial catalyst that led police to re-open the case this past September.
“It’s been our only outstanding homicide,” said Const. Brad MacConnell. “Advances in sciences have allowed us to eliminate a large portion of the population and we’re going to use that to our advantage to try to do that. Our department’s always been committed to having this solved, it’s just a matter of having the right basis to start from and advances in DNA have given us that opportunity.”
Carr, a former school teacher, was gay. At that time members of the gay community were worried about coming forward with information.
Jim Day's two article in The Guardian, a 24 November article titled "On the hunt" and a 26 November article titled "A double life" go into greater detail on the case. Setting Wild conspiracy theories on discussion boards to one side, it looks like Carr was murdered by a trick one lonely night in Charlottetown. That might explain why I remember the local print news media to have been somewhat reticent in talking about the case.
It's funny, but until I ran into those articles I never thought of that sort of thing happening on Prince Edward Island. Ah well, we're human after all.
