"Accused Toronto serial killer charged with 7th murder"
In this article, 66-year-old serial killer Bruce McArthur is accused of his seventh murder. His recently suspected victim, 42-year-old Abdulbasir Faizi, was filed as missing back in 2010 and was probably one of his very first victims. The police have yet to finish the search regarding McArthur’s victims while McArthur waits in Toronto South Detention Centre.
For some information on McArthur, he was a self-employed landscaper whose “signature” was burying his various victims’ remains in the properties that he worked on (in several planters and private gardens). In the article, there are many details on the various speculations and news of McArthur and his actions as a serial killer. Police were recorded commenting on McArthur having some sort of relationship with each victim, at least for the seven that were accounted for. They believed he mainly targeted from “Toronto's Gay Villages”--such as Church and Wellesley where the population mainly consists of the LGBTQ+ community--finding many of his victims from online dating sites/gay bars; though there has been a change in victim profile with new evidence sometime earlier this year. Each known victim was discovered through missing persons cases in 2010 to 2017, most were the focus of many projects and searches prior to his arrest. The police are currently still looking for any other victims in 75 different properties that McArthur has been associated with as well as any links to cold cases in 1970’s to 1990’s. This event, as mentioned slightly above, was all in Toronto in Ontario, Canada. In 2012 and 2017, the police sent out investigations of an unprecedented scale, under the names of Project Houston and Project Prism respectively. Project Houston’s purpose was to “find” Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan (3 of the 7 victims) and Project Prism used the information from the previous project to search for Selim Esen and Andrew Kinsman. They combed through an estimate of 30 different properties, finding remains in four in Toronto and one in Madoc. There is to yet to be a trial for McArthur, with all the evidence against him and the still undergoing investigation, it will take a long time before they completely “solve” the case. In the suspicions of a couple decades of “work”, McArthur was arrested on January 2018 with initial charges of first-degree murder of two men, Esen and Kinsmen. The course of three to four months brought on more accusations and more links up till the present 7 victims we have now with Faizi being identified and linked to McArthur. I had to search through more various articles and websites and there is evidence of previous incidents that foreshadowed his crimes. In October 2001, McArthur did his first criminal conviction, striking a male prostitute with a metal pipe and pleaded guilty in April 2003. He was sentenced to two years and three years’ probation, forbidden to be near the “Gay Village” or male prostitutes. That was only the beginning as the men listed above as victims all seemed to have some sexual relationship with McArthur before disappearing. Though nobody who ever knew McArthur suspected a thing! They believed him to be a very sweet, kind and earnest man with not the smallest hint of aggression or malice in the time of knowing him. It’s very hard to find my own opinion on this matter. The case has been going on for almost a couple decades and it’s only been suddenly opened. I’m actually terrified that people like McArthur exist, like another actually painful reality check. It shows how easy it is to hide the most horrifying details of ourselves as an attacker, how easy it is to just get swept up and just disappear without anyone knowing where you are as a victim. Murder is indescribable, I just can't find any words to elaborate on how I feel. I hope McArthur gets what he deserves and I hope the families of those victims get their closure. I will comment on Elena's and Melia's blog posts.
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