Police in P.E.I. say they have solved a 35-year-old homicide case involving a man who was strangled and stabbed by a killer who left a note saying, "I will kill again." A police officer makes a call at a scene in Charlottetown on Saturday, May 1, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Morris
CHARLOTTETOWN – Police in Prince Edward Island say they have solved a 35-year-old homicide case involving a man who was strangled and stabbed in his home by someone who left a message saying, “I will kill again.”
Chief Brad MacConnell of the Charlottetown Police Services told a news conference today that a 56-year-old P.E.I. man has been arrested and charged in the 1988 death of Byron Carr.
MacConnell described Carr, 36, as a loving son and brother and respected teacher whose murder shook the province “to its core.”
He says Todd Joseph Gallant of Souris, P.E.I., has been charged with first-degree murder.
Carr was last seen alive at around 3 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1988, and investigators have said evidence at the scene indicated he was killed followed a sexual encounter with another male.
They later released a photo of the killer’s ominous handwritten note on a wall inside Carr’s home.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 26, 2024.
