SERIAL KILLER: Bruce McArthur
For years, the LGBTQ community in Toronto, Canada worried there was a serial killer targeting men in the city’s Church and Wellesley neighborhood. Police disagreed and downplayed their concerns — and all the while, more men vanished into thin air. But the truth, when it was finally revealed, showed just how complicated a relationship still exists between Toronto Police and the LGBTQ community.
A drawing of the victims. Top row, from left to right: Skandaraj Navaratnam, Andrew Kinsman, Selim Esen and Abdulbasir Faizi. Bottom row, from left to right: Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Dean Lisowick, Soroush Mahmudi and Majeed Kayhan
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Episode Source Material
- Missing from the Village, by Justin Ling
- Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur. Directed by James Buddy Day
- Statement of Facts in the Bruce McArthur Case
- 2019 v. McArthur: Admitted Facts
- Report: Missing and Missed – Report of the Independent Civilian Review into Missing Person Investigations, by The Honourable Gloria J. Epstein
- CBC News: From Project Houston to Bruce McArthur’s life sentence: A timeline of what we know, by Nicole Brockbank
- Rolling Stone: How a Serial Killer Divided Toronto’s LGBTQ Community, by Joseph Jaafari
- IN Magazine: A Comprehensive Timeline Of The Bruce McArthur Case: From Part Of The Community To Convicted Serial Killer, by Courtney Hardwick
- CBC.ca: Neighbours are raising the alarm over missing Cabbagetown man, by Salma Ibrahim
- VICE: Two missing men revive old fears in Toronto’s gay community, by Justin Ling
- Toronto police chief dispels rumours of serial killer in Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, by Victoria Gibson and Jenna Moon
- CBC.ca: 2 years after Bruce McArthur’s arrest, Toronto’s LGBTQ community still healing
- Postmedia News / Saltwire.com: Andrew Kinsman was fascinated by serial killers before he became Bruce McArthur’s 8th victim, by Adrian Humphreys
- The Globe and Mail: Police link cases of three missing men from Toronto’s gay community, by Jill Mahoney
- Global News: Bruce McArthur case: Gruesome details of victims’ murders heard at sentencing hearing, by Nick Westoll
- CBC: ‘A big dose of reality’: Toronto homicide detective on lasting effects of Bruce McArthur, Lucas Powers
- CTV News: Serial killer Bruce McArthur sentenced to life, no chance of parole for 25 years, by Codi Wilson
- CBC News: Surveillance video shows Bruce McArthur’s van picking up 8th victim, Andrew Kinsman
- Her Majesty the Queen v. Bruce McArthur: Proceedings and sentencing
- History.com: What Happened at the Stonewall Riots? A Timeline of the 1969 Uprising, by Sarah Pruitt
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