CANADA James Stewart KENNEDY, 59, Toronto, 20 September 1976

James Stewart
KENNEDY

Age: 59

Gender: Male
Murdered on: September 20, 1976

Location: 52 Division
[h=4]Details of Investigation:[/h] On Monday, September 20, 1976, at about 8:00 a.m., police responded to a 911 call at 262 Jarvis Street.

The victim was discovered inside an apartment residence, suffering from blunt trauma, and obviously deceased.

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James Stewart Kennedy, 49, was found strangled and beaten to death in his apartment on Jarvis St. on Monday, September 20th, 1976. Kennedy worked at the Department of National Revenue on Adelaide St., and his body was found when he failed to show up for work as usual. A towel had been knotted tightly around his neck and his face had been badly battered. The victim, a bachelor, had last been seen Saturday night.

Again, credit cards are missing. Kennedy’s neighbours describe him as “a recluse.” Kennedy was last seen at the St. Charles Tavern the night before he was killed.

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dotr said:

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MelmothTheLost said:

My immediate reaction to reading about a 49 year old bachelor (ie never married) was that he could have been gay, and I see the blog writer has the entry tagged as such.

The phrase "confirmed bachelor" used to be code in the UK for "homosexual" in the days when it was illegal.

It seems entirely possible that he casually picked up the wrong someone and took him home, and that person killed him and took off with his credit cards. It would be interesting to know if anything else was taken.

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[h=1]It happened before[/h] Forty years ago, 14 gay men were brutally killed in Toronto. Half of those cases are still unsolved, and police are looking for any potential links between those homicides and the ones Bruce McArthur is accused of now.

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Nearly a year after Fontaine's assault, in the fall of 1976, James Kennedy was found dead inside his Jarvis Street apartment, just blocks from the neighbouring gay hangouts.

The 59-year-old worked in the Department of National Revenue on Adelaide Street in downtown Toronto.

He, like at least four of the others, was last seen leaving the St. Charles Tavern on Yonge Street not long before his death.

He was found dead on Sept. 20, naked and with his face badly beaten. He had been strangled with a towel.

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