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.
