Decades-Old Gay Murder Cases Solved?

Police in Ontario, Canada, believe they may be close to solving the case of two brutal murders that have haunted the Toronto gay community since the 1960s.

BY Julie Bolcer

March 10 2009 12:00 AM ET

Police in Ontario,
Canada, believe they may be close to solving the case
of two brutal murders that have haunted the Toronto gay
community since the 1960s. Authorities confirm that they have
interviewed James Henry, 72, a convicted serial killer and sex
offender whose long list of victims includes both men and
women, in connection with the reopened cases that have riveted
Canada in recent weeks.

Richard Hovey, 17, and
Eric Jones, 18, went missing from Toronto in 1967 after being
picked up by someone witnesses described as a "muscular
black man driving a white Corvair." Facial reconstruction
technology recently matched both victims to remains that were
found outside the city shortly after the crimes, but went
unidentified for four decades.

Henry, who is currently
serving time for the 1980 murder of a female prostitute in
Vancouver, was previously convicted for brutal crimes that
resonate with violence inflicted on Hovey and
Jones.

In 1968, Henry drove a
male prostitute from Toronto to the countryside, where he raped
and stabbed him to death. When he tried the same with another
male prostitute a week later, the victim survived and testified
in a trial that sent Henry to prison in one of his many
convictions.

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