Robert Assaly, a 59-year-old retired schoolteacher, was murdered on March 30, 1991, in Montreal, Quebec. He met 25-year-old Michael Wayne McGray at a bar in Montreal’s Gay Village and invited McGray to his home on Nuns’ Island, where McGray fatally stabbed him multiple times in the throat and chest.

McGray killed another man, Gaetan Ethier, the following day in a similar manner while on a three-day weekend pass from prison for a 1987 robbery; he failed to return to custody and remained at large for nearly two months before being re-arrested. The murders of Assaly and Ethier went unsolved for several years until McGray’s 1999 arrest for other killings; he later confessed and in April 2000 pleaded guilty to Assaly’s and Ethier’s murders and received a life sentence.

McGray’s confessions described a pattern of targeting gay men by meeting them in bars and luring them to secluded locations before killing them. Does anyone have information about Assaly’s life on Nuns’ Island or who might have known him in Montreal’s Gay Village in 1991?