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Charlottetown police will hold a news conference Friday to make an announcement about the killing of Byron Carr 35 years ago.
CBC P.E.I. will livestream news conference about the Byron Carr case hereKevin Yarr · CBC News
· Posted: Jan 26, 2024 6:53 AM EST | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago
Police make announcement in 35-year-old cold case on P.E.I.Charlottetown police say there’s been an ‘unexpected development’ in the unsolved killing of Byron Carr in 1988.
Charlottetown police will hold a news conference Friday to make an announcement about the killing of Byron Carr 35 years ago.
CBC P.E.I. will livestream that news conference with Police Chief Brad MacConnell, scheduled for 1 p.m. AT, and you will be able to watch it here.
“There has been a significant development into the unsolved homicide of Byron Carr, which occurred in November 1988,” Charlottetown Police said in a social media post late Thursday night.
Carr, a 36-year-old teacher who worked at Montague Regional High School, was strangled to death in his home on Lapthorne Avenue in the early morning hours of Nov. 11 that year. Police have said they believe Carr had consensual sex with a young man he brought home, and believe that man is his killer.
CBC News took an in-depth look at Carr’s life and the case in 2018. Watch it here:
Byron Carr’s murder unsolved after 30 yearsByron Carr was strangled to death in the bedroom of his Charlottetown home in 1988. It’s one of the only cold cases on P.E.I. in modern history. CBC’s Sally Pitt looks back at Carr’s life and his unsolved murder.
Based on a profile created of the killer, he is believed to be in his late 50s today.
The case is P.E.I.’s only unsolved homicide of recent times. After lying dormant for years, it was reopened in 2007, and police have made several announcements since.
Byron Carr was 36 years old when he was strangled to death in his Charlottetown home. (CBC)In reopening the case, police were pinning their hopes on advances in DNA technology, and in particular evidence gathered from underwear found in Carr’s home, which police believe belonged to the killer.
Police also believe they know the identity of an accomplice after the fact, a man who has since died.
