On Christmas morning in 2003, a security guard on the Johnson & Wales Harbourside campus

in Providence, Rhode Island discovered the body of a young man leaning up against a chain-link fence.

Fingerprints would later identify the man as 22-year-old Roy Weber.

Roy was part of a population of men who engaged in street-based sex work in Providence.

Many of them exchanging sexual acts for money to support their substance use.

Almost 20 years later, Roy's homicide is still unsolved.

Though police have photos of a man they said could have information about what happened to Roy.

Still, no arrests have been made to this day.

Richard Holcomb knew Roy Weber, their lives intertwined by their mutual lifestyle at the time.

He's now in recovery, and Rich had spent much of his adult life advocating

and raising awareness for street-based sex work and helping researchers, health care professionals

and the general public better understand the realities of that life, one that he fell into at a young age.

This is the case of Roy Weber, but it's also the story of Richard Holcomb,

and how he sought recovery and helped reclaim Roy Weber's legacy by helping other men like him.

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When I started researching Roy Weber's story, the name Rich Holcomb appeared around every corner.

I truly wonder if Roy's memory and story would have lived on as it has without Richard Holcomb's work.

I contacted Rich on LinkedIn, and thankfully, my message reached him.

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