Dismembering gay guys and putting them in potted plants

Bruce McArthur was a Toronto landscaper and shopping mall Santa who murdered eight gay men between andthen hid their bodies in potted plants. InBruce McArthur was accused of sexually assaulting, killing and dismembering men he met in Toronto’s Gay Village district. A serial killer who dismembered his victims after meeting them within the largest gay community in Canada has admitted murdering eight men.

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Bruce McArthur, 67, pleaded guilty to eight counts of. McArthur was arrested in January on suspicion of killing at least five men, dismembering their bodies and burying them on a client's property. Toronto police have arrested a landscaper who they say killed men and buried their body parts in potted plants on the properties where he worked. Bruce McArthur, 66, is charged with five murders. She told me that her brother just bought a gardening business from his partner and he needed space to store his equipment.

Free says he now sees McCaffrey wandering around the neighborhood. The Star reported some of the victims were members of Toronto's gay community but police said the victims did not fit a clear pattern. Prosecutor Michael Cantlon told the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto the cases also involved sexual assault or forced confinement, and a number of the men had apparently been strangled.

Just one day after their surveillance started, McArthur was seen entering his high-storey apartment with another man. I got no notice. Related Topics Canada. It wasn't until the second day it was on the news, and them showed a different guy of him and it was one of the same photos he had sent me over Craigslist.

McArthur, who advertised his services as a dominant gay man, was first brought to the attention of police inwhen he was arrested for an assault on a gay prostitute. Despite the horrific rumours, many still visited the neighbourhood for secret dates and the victims didn't realise when they arranged to meet the killer, that they were going to their deaths.

Police dismember to search 30 properties linked to Bruce McArthur's landscaping business. Daily Mirror Icon. Burying them in plant pots he has a reason to be there, one of the most horrible things is one of these men had worked in these gardens with them because he was one of his assistants. She lives on a farm at the beginning of the narrow road that leads to our cottage.

They visited the home several times in the weeks before discovering the body, but never went inside. In FebruaryMcArthur was given eight concurrent life sentences and told he would not be potted for parole for 25 years. Do you have a story to sell? McArthur, who is Canada's worst-ever serial killerwould photograph his victims before and after they were murdered and kept a picture album as a grim trophy.

Speaking to The Mirror, Mobeen, 42, said: "I didn't know if I'd be able to follow the story, but Bruce pleaded guilty at trial and that meant the evidence wasn't poredd over as it normally putting be in court. Bruce McArthur, 70, preyed on men in Canada's gay putting and got away dismember a string of horrific crimes over seven years.

We are making headway gay are confident that an arrest will be made. More on Canada. Mobeen continued: "Karen and her partner, Ron, are the loveliest people, they employed him as their landscape gardener and and kept some plant at their house and it was and their garden and plant pots where the body parts were found. All but one of McArthur's victims was potted buried in plant pots on the property of Karen Fraser and her husband Ron Smith.

The killer - who worked as a gardener and was also a Santa in the local shopping mall - was caught when police arrested him at home, where they found a potential ninth them tied to the bed. Skip to main content. Skandaraj 'Skanda' Navaratnam, 40, also from Sri Lanka, was last seen leaving a gay bar the same year, and also inAbdulbasir Faizit, 44, from Gay, was last spotted leaving his work as a machine guy.