Alison Parrott

Francis Carl Roy (born September 18, 1957) was questioned by police during their first round of interviews, as he used the same training facility as Alison's track club, and also because he had a criminal record.

Roy was a First Nations man from Manitoulin Island.

He was an avid runner with a keen interest in photography.

Alison May Campbell Parrott (September 28, 1974July 25, 1986) was an 11-year-old girl who was lured out of her home by a male phone caller in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Her remains were found two days later in a densely wooded area of Kings Mill Park.

A decade later, a link analysis helped Toronto homicide detectives match the DNA evidence with a man who was charged with the crime.

Alison May Campbell Parrott was born on September 28, 1974, in Toronto.

Her father, Peter Parrott, was a civil engineer; her mother Lesley was an advertising executive.

At the time of her murder, Alison attended a French immersion elementary school and frequently used public transit.

She was also an avid runner and a member of the Tom Longboat track club for youth aged 8 to 12.

She had won her first race that summer and qualified to participate in an international track-and-field meet in New Jersey, scheduled for 1 August.

Her name, along with those of other youth qualifying for the New Jersey event, had been published in the Toronto Star.

He had a criminal record dating back to 1976, including possession of stolen property, petty theft, fraud, assault, breaking and entering, and rape.

At the time of Alison's murder, Roy had been on parole after serving only two and a half years of a consecutive 11-year sentence for the rapes of a 14-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman.

Shortly before 11 o'clock on the morning of July 25, 1986, Alison received a phone call at her Summerhill Avenue home in midtown Toronto.

A male caller, claiming to be a photographer, asked her to meet him at the University of Toronto's Varsity Stadium where, he said, he would be taking publicity photos of her and her teammates.

Alison had trained at the Varsity Stadium sports field the previous fall.

No one else was at home when Alison received the call.

Alison phoned her mother at work and received permission to attend the photo session.

They discussed the route she would take and arranged that she would return home by 2:30 pm.

Riders reported seeing her alone on her 20-minute subway route.

When Alison failed to return on time, her parents waited until 5 pm to begin inquiring among their friends and neighbours as to her whereabouts.

At 6 pm, they called police.

Hundreds joined the search in the following days.

Alison's body was found two days later by two boys walking in a densely wooded area of Kings Mill Park, on the Humber River just below the Old Mill subway station; she had been bound, raped, and strangled.

Alison's remains were cremated.

Her gravesite is located in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.

A green space south of David A. Balfour Park, dubbed "The Little Park", is dedicated to Alison.

Police announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderer.

The investigation initially interviewed 18,000 persons.

According to police, the perpetrator had tracked Alison's movements in the weeks leading up to the murder.

On 14 July, an unidentified male caller had phoned at the house asking to speak to her, but she was out at summer camp and the babysitter had taken a message.

The caller had apparently phoned other families with the surname of Parrott in an effort to locate "the Alison Parrott who was going to the International Youth Track Championships in New Jersey".

Police speculated that the murderer may have also gathered information about Alison's training patterns at her club.

For a time, police suspected the culprit was a man they sought and called the Scarborough Rapist.

When he was identified as Paul Bernardo, the police knew they needed another man because DNA gathered from traces of semen found on Alison's clothes did not match.

He moved to Vancouver in 1988 and obtained a job with the city as a youth counselor, claiming to have a degree in psychology from the University of Toronto.

He got the job without a background check.

Francis Carl Roy was convicted of first-degree murder on April 13, 1999.

Sentenced to life in prison, he has been eligible for parole since 2021.