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The Murder of Roy Weber (Rhode Island)

2023/5/8
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播音员：2003年圣诞节早晨，在罗德岛普罗维登斯约翰逊和威尔士港区校园发现22岁男子Roy Weber的尸体，死于枪击。案件至今未破，警方公布了可能掌握相关信息的嫌疑人照片。Roy Weber生前从事街头性工作，并有吸毒史。他的家人回忆了他童年时期积极的一面，以及他后来因吸毒和性工作而陷入困境的经历。警方调查了案发前Roy Weber的活动轨迹，包括他在圣诞节前夕在Cathedral Square公寓楼与其他人吸毒和从事性工作的情况。公寓楼监控录像显示，Roy Weber在案发前几个小时与一名中年白人男子在一起，警方公布了该男子的照片，希望找到目击者。 Richard Holcomb：Richard Holcomb认识Roy Weber，他们曾有相似的经历，都曾流落街头，从事性工作来维持生计，并有吸毒史。Richard Holcomb在康复后开始为街头性工作者提供服务，并成立了Project Weber，以纪念Roy Weber并帮助其他类似的男性。他回忆了与Roy Weber相处的经历，以及Roy Weber生前所面临的困境。他曾怀疑名叫Buzz的人可能是凶手，并向警方提供了相关信息，但案件至今未破。他认为，Roy Weber的生活方式可能导致案件没有得到优先处理，并对社会对吸毒者和性工作者的偏见表示担忧。 Richard Holcomb: 我认识Roy Weber，我们都曾从事街头性工作和吸毒。他的死对普罗维登斯的男性性工作者造成了很大的影响。在康复后，我开始为男性性工作者提供服务，并成立了Project Weber，以此纪念Roy Weber。我曾向警方提供过关于可能凶手的线索，但案件至今未破。我认为，社会对吸毒者和性工作者的偏见可能会影响案件的调查。

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RHODE ISLAND, 2003: On Christmas morning in 2003, a security guard on the Johnson & Wales Harborside campus in Providence, Rhode Island discovered the body of a young man leaning up against a chain link fence. Fingerprints would later identify the man as 22-year old Roy Weber.

Roy was part of a population of men who engaged in street-based sex work in Providence, many of them exchanging sexual acts for money to support their substance use. Almost 20 years later, Roy’s homicide is still unsolved. Police have photos of a man they’ve said could have information about what happened to Roy, and yet no arrests have been made to this day.

Richard Holcomb knew Roy Weber, their lives intertwined by their mutual lifestyle at the time. He’s now in recovery, and Rich has spent much of his adult life advocating and raising awareness for street-based sex work and helping researchers, health care professionals, and the general public better understand the realities of that life, one that he fell into at a young age.

This is the case of Roy Weber, but it’s also the story of Richard Holcomb and how he sought recovery and helped reclaim Roy Weber’s legacy by helping other men like him.

  • If you have information about the 2003 unsolved homicide of Roy Weber, please contact the Providence Police Department at (401) 272-3121.
  • Watch Invisible), a documentary about male sex work in Providence, RI
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Dark Downeast is an audiochuck and Kylie Media production hosted by Kylie Low.