Murder on the Island: Who Killed Byron Carr?
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06/06/22 • 85 min
Episode 222: On Sunday, November 12,1988 beloved 36-year-old high school teacher named Byron Carr was found by his family dead in the bedroom of his home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He’d been strangled to death and stabbed. Byron’s wallet had been stolen, and ominously on his wall, written in pen, were the words “I will kill again.” Investigators revealed that Byron was a closeted gay man, and had been involved in a consensual sexual encounter with an as yet unidentified man prior to his death. It is presumed that it was this man who killed Byron. No one has ever been brought to justice in Byron’s death.
Anyone with any information regarding this crime, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is asked to call the Bell Aliant sponsored Byron Carr Hot Line 1-877-566-3952 or PEI Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS.
Promo: Crimes from the East
Sources:
Homicides | Charlottetown Police Services
PEI Crime Stoppers - Homicides
Charlottetown police reopen 1980s murder case | CBC News
Skimpy underwear connected to 1988 murder | CBC News
Charlottetown police release sketch of possible Byron Carr killer | SaltWire
Byron Carr murder accomplice identified by police | CBC News
2013, John Carr interview | CBC.ca
‘Give this family closure’: Police still working to solve 30-year-old Byron Carr murder | CBC News
Unsolved Case Files Canada: Murder of Byron Carr After Sexual Encounter With Another Male
Cold case, warm memories: Byron Carr’s friends, family want his 1988 P.E.I. murder solved | SaltWire
Brad MacConnell Named New Chief of Police | Charlottetown Police Services
r/UnresolvedMysteries: Byron Carr
CANADA — Canada — Byron Carr, 36, Schoolteacher — Nov’ 88 | Websleuths
Reader’s Digest: Canada’s Most Notorious Cold Cases
Public Attitudes toward Homosexuality — Tom W. Smith
TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada | CBC News
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia
R. v. MacDonald, 2004 CanLII 9284 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1h09c>
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Episode 222: On Sunday, November 12,1988 beloved 36-year-old high school teacher named Byron Carr was found by his family dead in the bedroom of his home in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. He’d been strangled to death and stabbed. Byron’s wallet had been stolen, and ominously on his wall, written in pen, were the words “I will kill again.” Investigators revealed that Byron was a closeted gay man, and had been involved in a consensual sexual encounter with an as yet unidentified man prior to his death. It is presumed that it was this man who killed Byron. No one has ever been brought to justice in Byron’s death.
Anyone with any information regarding this crime, no matter how insignificant it may seem, is asked to call the Bell Aliant sponsored Byron Carr Hot Line 1-877-566-3952 or PEI Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-TIPS.
Promo: Crimes from the East
Sources:
Homicides | Charlottetown Police Services
PEI Crime Stoppers - Homicides
Charlottetown police reopen 1980s murder case | CBC News
Skimpy underwear connected to 1988 murder | CBC News
Charlottetown police release sketch of possible Byron Carr killer | SaltWire
Byron Carr murder accomplice identified by police | CBC News
2013, John Carr interview | CBC.ca
‘Give this family closure’: Police still working to solve 30-year-old Byron Carr murder | CBC News
Unsolved Case Files Canada: Murder of Byron Carr After Sexual Encounter With Another Male
Cold case, warm memories: Byron Carr’s friends, family want his 1988 P.E.I. murder solved | SaltWire
Brad MacConnell Named New Chief of Police | Charlottetown Police Services
r/UnresolvedMysteries: Byron Carr
CANADA — Canada — Byron Carr, 36, Schoolteacher — Nov’ 88 | Websleuths
Reader’s Digest: Canada’s Most Notorious Cold Cases
Public Attitudes toward Homosexuality — Tom W. Smith
TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada | CBC News
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights in Canada | The Canadian Encyclopedia
R. v. MacDonald, 2004 CanLII 9284 (ON CA), <https://canlii.ca/t/1h09c>
Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/darkpoutine
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Murder on the Isle of Dogs: The Execution of Auguste Neel
Episode 221: On the morning of December 31, 1888, in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, friends found 61-year-old fisherman François Coupard dead in his fishing shack. Someone had brutally slain Coupard and had mutilated his body horribly after his murder. A quick investigation led to two men, Auguste Neel and Louis Ollivier, trying to flee to Newfoundland on a stolen fishing boat. The pair later admitted their roles in the murder and were tried and convicted. Ollivier was sentenced to 10 years at hard labour, while Neel, against whom the evidence was more solid, received a death sentence, which was carried out on August 24, 1889. This execution was the first and last in North America using a guillotine to do the deed.
Sources:
ExecutedToday.com » auguste neel
19/02/1930 : Affaire NEEL Auguste et OLLIVIER Louis – Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : Ephémérides
affaire néel - Histoire des îles St Pierre et Miquelon
Saint Pierre and Miquelon - Wikipedia
Canada’s top court says voluntary extreme intoxication a defence in violent crimes | Globalnews.ca
R. v. Brown, 2022 SCC 18 (CanLII), < https://canlii.ca/t/jp648 >
the dive spell: Saint Pierre Island: site of the only guillotine execution in north america
8 Things You May Not Know About the Guillotine - HISTORY
The Paris Review - The Bloody Family History of the Guillotine
Does the head remain briefly conscious after decapitation (revisited)? - The Straight Dope
Exploring The French Instrument Of Death: The Guillotine | Thought Catalog
Guillotine by Robert Frederick Opie - Ebook | Scribd
Execution by Geoffrey Abbott - Ebook | Scribd
The Widow of Saint-Pierre - Wikipedia
Sept. 10, 1977: Heads Roll for the Last Time in France | WIRED
5 really cool things about Saint-Pierre and Miquelon - Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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Blurred Justice: The Murders of Corporal Irwin and Trooper Black
Episode 223: On Friday, February 20, 1976, while on vacation in Florida OPP Corporal Donald R. Irwin, 39, a father of three from Kitchener, Ontario, went on a ride along with his good friend Florida State Trooper, Philip Black, also 39-years-old. Irwin was in civilian clothing and unarmed. At around 7:15 a.m. they checked an old Camaro parked in a rest area on I-95, north of Pompano Beach, Florida. Moments later, both officers were dead, and the five people who’d been in the Camaro had fled in Black’s cruiser.
Walter Norman Rhodes Jr., 26, 29-year-old, Jesse Joseph Tafero, Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs, 28, Tafero’s wife and two children, Jacobs’ 9-year-old son, Eric, and the couple’s 10-month-old daughter, Christina, were apprehended at a road block after having kidnapped another man, and stolen his Cadillac from a retirement home after abandoning Black’s cruiser. Rhodes’ life was spared as he pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against the other two. Jacobs and Tafero were both sentenced to die in Florida’s electric chair, but was justice really served. The case eventually unravelled but not before Tafero had his date with Old Sparky in 1990.
Promo: Podcast by Proxy
Sources:
21 Feb 1976, Page 1 - Fort Lauderdale News at Newspapers.com
Killer of 2 Police Officers Executed in Florida - The New York Times
Ontario Police Memorial Foundation — Donald R. Irwin
FHP MEMORIAL — Phillip A. Black (1936-1976)
In the Blink of an Eye - Essay
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/i-had-nothing-the-world-i-left-no-longer-existed
Jesse Tafero - Case Summary - Innocence Project by Claudia Whitman sponsored by Equal Justice USA
Exoneree, Center on Wrongful Convictions: Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Tafero v. State, 223 So. 2d 564 | Casetext Search + Citator
Jesse Tafero | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
The Joys of Forgiveness on Death Row | Sunny Jacobs | TEDxGalway — YouTube
‘Exonerated’ blurs facts about death penalty case
Former death row couple: ‘Life turned out beautifully’ | Family | The Guardian
TIPS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF PAROLED MURDERER – Sun Sentinel
Fugitive’s prosthetic leg gives him away | The Seattle Times
Rhodes v. Fla. Parole Comm’n, CASE NO. 8:13-cv-1424-T-36AEP | Casetext Search + Citator
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