The Trail Went Cold - Episode 281 - Byron Carr

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

November 12, 1988. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. After he is not heard from in over 24 hours, the body of 36-year old Byron Carr is discovered inside the bedroom of his residence. He has been strangled with a towel and stabbed with a kitchen knife and the words, “I will kill again”, are scrawled on the bedroom wall. The evidence indicates that Byron had sex with another man before he was murdered, but even though the perpetrator left his DNA behind, all attempts to match it to anyone are unsuccessful. Over the years, investigators receive a number of compelling tips, including the name of an accomplice who supposedly helped the killer cover up the crime, but the killer himself remains unidentified. On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will travel back to our podcast’s home country of Canada to explore the only known unsolved homicide from Prince Edward Island. If you have any information about this case, please contact the Charlottetown Police Service at (902) 629-4172 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). Additional Reading: https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/cold-case-warm-memories-byron-carrs-friends-family-want-his-1988-pei-murder-solved-100638596/ https://ucfiles.com/Files/1988/bcarr.php https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/byron-carr https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/byron-carr-murder-accomplice-identified-by-police-1.2355330 https://www.saltwire.com/news/local/on-the-hunt-76479/?location=nova-scotia https://www.theguardian.pe.ca/news/provincial/charlottetown-police-release-sketch-of-possible-byron-carr-killer-105499/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/503004708/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/730208131/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	November 12th, 1988.
0:03.2	Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island.
0:05.8	After he has not heard from for over 24 hours, the body of 36-year-old Byron Carr is discovered
0:11.3	in the bedroom of his residence. He has been strangled with a towel and stabbed
0:15.2	with a kitchen knife, and the words, I will kill again, are scrawled on the bedroom all.
0:20.5	The evidence suggests that Byron had sex with another man before he was murdered, but even though the perpetrator left DNA behind attempts to match it to anyone are unsuccessful.
0:30.0	Over the years, investigators receive a number of compelling tips, including the name of an
0:34.7	accomplice who allegedly helped the killer cover up the crime, but Byron's murder is never solved.
0:40.4	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, well, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh,
1:04.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:06.0	uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold.
1:22.0	I'm your host Robin Warder, and today we're going to be returning to our podcast Home Country of Canada to cover a frustrating cold case, the 1988 murder of Byron Carr.
1:32.0	A few months ago, the Trail went cold. a So I made it a goal to eventually do the same thing for every Canadian province and territory.
1:45.0	Today, we're going to be exploring our first ever case from Canada's smallest province, Prince Edward Island,
1:51.0	and it is considered to be the province's only unsolved in recent times.
1:56.0	I also decided to cover this one right now because June just happens to be Pride Month,
2:01.0	and the victim's sexual orientation played a big role in how the investigation was handled.
2:06.0	Byron Carr was murdered in the bedroom of his residence, and he was essentially outed by his death,
2:11.0	as the evidence showed that he had brought another man home and had sex with him before he was killed.
2:16.0	This revelation came as a major surprise to many people who knew Byron because back in Prince Edward Island in 1988, gay and bisexual residents were
2:25.2	very closeted about their sexual orientation.
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