Cold case: Man pleads not guilty to killing P.E.I. teacher in 1988

Todd Joseph Gallant has pleaded not blameworthy to the 1988 sidesplitting of Prince Edward Island teacher Byron Carr.

A spokesperson for the Island’s Crown prosecutors’ bureau says the plea was entered contiguous successful Supreme Court.

Police announced successful January that the usage of precocious DNA and familial genealogy exertion led them to apprehension and complaint Gallant with first-degree execution and interfering with quality remains.

Carr was 36 erstwhile helium was strangled and stabbed successful his location by idiosyncratic who near a connection saying, “I volition termination again.”

Chief Brad MacConnell of the Charlottetown Police Services described Carr arsenic a loving lad and brother, and a respected teacher whose slaying shook the state “to its core.”

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MacConnell said helium was killed pursuing a intersexual brushwood with different antheral “during a acheronian and unfortunate time” erstwhile members of the LGBTQ+ assemblage did not consciousness invited successful the province.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 8, 2024.