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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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 […]

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0:00.0	November 12, 1988. Charlotte Town, Prince Edward Island. After he is not heard from for over 24
0:07.8	hours, the body of 36-year-old Byron Carr is discovered in the bedroom of his residence. He has
0:13.5	been strangled with a towel and stabbed with a kitchen knife, and the words, I will kill again,
0:18.4	are scrawled on the bedroom wall. The evidence suggests that Byron had sex with another man before
0:23.6	he was murdered, but even though the perpetrator left DNA behind, attempts to match it to anyone
0:28.4	aren't successful. Over the years, investigators receive a number of compelling tips,
0:33.7	including the name of an accomplice who allegedly helped to kill or cover up the crime,
0:37.8	but Byron's murder is never solved. After that, the trail went cold.
1:07.9	Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of The Trail Went Cold. I'm your host
1:22.7	Robin Warder, and today we're going to be returning to our podcast Home Country of Canada
1:27.6	to cover a frustrating cold case, the 1988 Murder of Byron Carr. A few months ago,
1:34.0	the trail went cold-reached to milestone in which we managed to cover at least one cold case
1:38.1	from all 50 American states, so I made it a goal to eventually do the same thing for every Canadian
1:43.4	province and territory. Today, we're going to be exploring our first-ever case from Canada's
1:49.0	smallest province, Prince Edward Island, and it is considered to be the province's only unsolved
1:54.0	homicide in recent times. I also decided to cover this one right now because June just happens
2:00.0	to be Pride Month, and the victim's sexual orientation played a big role in how the investigation
2:05.2	was handled. Byron Carr was murdered in the bedroom of his residence, and he was essentially
2:10.4	outed by his death, as the evidence showed that he had brought another man home and had sex with
2:14.9	him before he was killed. This revelation came as a major surprise to many people who knew Byron
2:20.5	because back in Prince Edward Island in 1988, gay and bisexual residents were very closeted
2:26.1	about their sexual orientation. The local gay community was not particularly trusting of
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