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. Investigation 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. Suspect 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. 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. 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. He left the city in 1991 after being involved in a bar fight and returned to Toronto. Roy told investigators that he had gone running and then met a friend at a bar at the time of Alison's disappearance. Moreover, when Alison's body was found in