Possible victims of alleged serial killer, Bruce McArthur 1970's-2018

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Don't assume he worked at the Eaton Centre. All we know for sure is he worked for Eaton's as a salesman from about 1972 or 1973 to 1978 or so. There is even some dispute on those days. Eaton's had stores all over Ontario and Canada. So far not a single report (and this is precisely the information I've been looking for) has stated the address where he lived much less the city. It's very possible he serviced areas outside the GTA and also possible he worked from home and didn't work anywhere near Eaton's head office in downtown Toronto.
 
Yes this is true. However that info came from a source so it could have merit.
 
Fair enough but it needs to be from more than just an anonymous source. I've heard some credible information as well but there is no corroborating evidence to back it up. No voters list or tax roll showing a name and address has been seen.
 
EAST
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ight=Cassandra
Cassandra Do, Transgender, August 2003 The Village, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...am-40-Toronto-ON-5-Sept-2010&highlight=Kayhan
Skandaraj Navaratanam September, 2010 The Village
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...Faizi-42-Toronto-28-Dec-2010&highlight=Kayhan
Abdulbasir (Basir) Faizi December, 2010 The Village
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ht=Aman+Abdela
Aman Abdela, 33, Toronto, Ont, May 2014 Sherbourne/Wellesley
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?251973-Canada-Stephen-Perkovic-37-Toronto-Ont-26-July-2014
Stephen Perkovic, 37, Toronto July 2014 Church/Maitland
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=Frank+Wang
Zhu 'Frank' Wang, 25, Toronto, May 19, 2017 Yonge/Gerrard
Jeffrey Howard, June 2, 2017 Victoria/Shuter
Mohammad Eldardiry, June 12, 2017 Queen/Jarvis
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...=Alloura+Wells
Alloura Wells, Transgender, July 2017 Rosedale, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?352393-Canada-Chase-Kincaid-30-Toronto-11-Aug-2017
Chase Kinkaid August 11 2017 Yonge/College
Sebastian Herve September 1, 2017 Bloor/Parliament
James Gare September 8, 2017 Shuter/Bond
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-November-2017
George Sekaloh November 28, 2017 Dundas/Sherbourne

WEST
Dragan Ilic March 13, 2017 Scarlett/East
Harrison Mantalas May 30, 2017 College/Spadina
Edward Edmond Harding June 1, 2017 Queen/Shaw, Do not approach
Jacques Vermeiren June 29, 2017 Queen/Ossington
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...o-25-July-2017
David Cronkwright July 25, 2017 Eglinton/Keele
Odean McFarlane August 10, 2017 Queen/Ossington, Do not approach
Alexander Man September 7, 2017 Queen/Ossington
Sayed Ahmed Abidy September 13, 2017 Queen/Ossington, Do not approach
Isaiah Silva Fonseca September 18, 2017 Queen/Jameson
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...4#post13865144
Zamil Ali November 2017 Bloor/Spadina
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?358730-Canada-Ayoub-Ibrahim-55-Toronto-3-Dec-2017
Ayoub Ibrahim December 3, 2017 Eglinton/Oakwood

NORTH
Wayne Broadbend March 7, 2017 Victoria Park/Sheppard
John Stephenson May 31, 2017 Don Mills/McNicoll
Igor Vergovic August 14, 2017 Leslie/Sheppard
Sheldon Smith September 15, 2017 Don Mills/Sheppard
Jpaul Amar September 19, 2017 Jane/Finch

OTHER
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...r+unidentified
Unidentified Transgender Remains July, 1980 Markham, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...o-30-June-1984
Robert Plewes June 30, 1984 Toronto/Algonquin
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...0-in-river-Jul-88&highlight=head+peterborough
Unidentified Male Remains July, 1988 Peterborough, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?340789-Canada-Norman-Whalley-36-amp-Grant-Ayerst-21-Toronto-11-Sept-1991&p=13441104&highlight=grant+AYERST#post1344110 4
Norman Whalley September 11, 1991 Toronto/Barrie
Grant Ayerst September 11, 1991 Toronto/Barrie
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=belleville
David Ernest Rowbotham January 24, 1995 Bellville, Ontario
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-November-1997
John Stanley Grabluk November 15, 1997 Scarborough
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...50-Osteoarthritis-Apr-05&highlight=bobcaygeon
Unidentified Male Remains April, 2005 Bobcaygeon, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Calvin+Vanness
Calvin Vaness March 26, 2008 Bellville, Ontario
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ight=Choudhury
Osman Choudhury March 6 2017 from Toronto/Milton
Balwant Grewal April 21, 2017 Mississauga
Murray Mulvina May 17, 2017 Scarborough
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=Bryce+Hall
Bryce Hall August 4, 2017 Windsor
Rajesh Persaud September 16, 2017 Scarborough
Aaron Giardino September 20, 2017 Mississauga
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Ont-2-Oct-2017
Eugene Kim Oct 2017 Markham/Algonquin

Bumping list and update.
Eugene Kim - located.
[h=2]Ayoub Ibrahim - located[/h]
 
New to websleuths, following BM case for a few personal reasons

Here's another possible victim: Lehmber Singh, a Punjabi singer who went missing in Toronto in 2015 and fits BM's victim profile for the most part (he was 30 in 2015)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/punj...nada-police/story-M3yenq29A4Ho1A21id7XeN.html

Photo: http://diversityreporter.com/2015/12/23/missing-lehmber-singh/

I searched the internet for news that he'd been located; nothing so far.

Welcome to Ws dryeye!
Thanks for that very interesting suggestion, started thread for him.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?369275-Lehmber-Singh-30-(musician-visiting-from-India)Toronto-5-Nov-2015&p=14015324#post14015324
[h=2]Lehmber Singh, 30 (musician visiting from India)Toronto, 5 Nov 2015[/h]
 
Angry relative accuses police services of failing to follow up on multiple reports of missing man in Toronto

J*** Riley’s brother, Jon, had been missing for four years when the police contacted her last month with a specific and unsettling question: Which side of his body had a surgical scar?

It was late afternoon on Feb. 18 when she got the voicemail from an Ontario Provincial Police constable.

For years, she had been exasperated by what she saw as the police’s indifference to her brother’s disappearance. Mr. Riley was 46 when he vanished in 2013 after telling his mother, with whom he lived in Meaford, Ont., that he was going to Toronto for a visit.

Ms. Riley, who lives in Hawaii, said she tried to report him missing when she stopped hearing from him, but had trouble convincing Toronto police her brother was not the kind of person to cut off contact with his family, and that they should open a file on him. And when the provincial police took the case months later, it was not put it into the RCMP’s missing-persons database.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...mpression=true
 
Also posted this link on the BM thread.
https://www.cp24.com/news/detective-...970s-1.3870681
April 4 2018
Detective in McArthur investigation says police looking into cold cases from the 1970s



Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga previously told reporters that investigators are looking into numerous cold cases to see if there is any link to the accused serial killer but did not provide a specific timeframe.

The confirmation comes on the heels of a CBC Fifth Estate investigation that is set to air on Friday. In a preview of the show, The Fifth Estate says the team’s investigation will focus on the stories of several men from Toronto’s gay community who were brutally murdered more than four decades ago.
According to CBC, some of these cold cases are now being reopened
 
Very lengthy.
https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/toronto-gay-village-killings

It happened before

Forty years ago, 14 gay men were brutally killed in Toronto. Half of those cases are still unsolved, and police are looking for any potential links between those homicides and the ones Bruce McArthur is accused of now.

Lisa Mayor, Jen White and Saman Malik
April 4, 2018
Between 1975 and 1978, 14 men from Toronto’s gay community would turn up dead. Half of those cases were solved and the others have gone cold. Many of the cases have striking similarities, leading people to believe the killings were connected.

During that time, McArthur was working in Toronto. He would have been in his 20s.

He hasn't been linked to any of those crimes, but Toronto Police Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga, the lead investigator in the current case, says police are looking into those mysterious disappearances four decades ago.

“We have pulled the cases from the 1970s that you’re talking about and we’re going through those with a fine-toothed comb to see if there are any links at all,” Idsinga told The Fifth Estate.

“Would it surprise me if Mr. McArthur was linked to some murders from his late 20s? It wouldn’t.”
McArthur and his then-wife, Janice, travelled to Europe in the late '70s. They stayed with Foot and his wife in London, England, for about two weeks on and off.
The company wouldn’t confirm where McArthur’s route was, but reports indicate he worked around the Greater Toronto Area.

The "territory was probably from Durham right over through to Toronto,” says Pamela Bennett, whose mother was one of McArthur’s counters. “I remember going to Yorkdale [Mall] and to Sheridan Mall ... Cedarbrae, Scarborough Town Centre.”
A young Bruce McArthur was working at Eaton’s downtown.

Slowly over those years, a fear began to take hold in the gay community as men began vanishing.

At that time, the Gay Village was a small stretch of Yonge Street between College and Wellesley streets, anchored on either end by two bars — the St. Charles Tavern at the south end and the Parkside Tavern at the north.
 
They really need to post pics of BM in his younger years and compare them to data bases across Canada - so far, he killed people younger than him I noticed- so when he was 30 he may have been killing 20 yr olds -- in his 40's killing 30 yr olds .... maybe???
Even tho all victims so far have been identified as gay - I wonder if it was always like that ---
What I don't get is if he is gay why would he target gay men? Did these men reject him?
 
They really need to post pics of BM in his younger years and compare them to data bases across Canada - so far, he killed people younger than him I noticed- so when he was 30 he may have been killing 20 yr olds -- in his 40's killing 30 yr olds .... maybe???
Even tho all victims so far have been identified as gay - I wonder if it was always like that ---
What I don't get is if he is gay why would he target gay men? Did these men reject him?
This now identified man does not as yet have any known connection to the gay community, same with one of the other men.
At this point, we may well learn that the killer had a variety of victims.imo, speculation.
This is the 8 th person whose remains have been located at the Leaside property.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?371549-Kirushna-Kumar-Kanagaratnam-37-alleged-victim-of-Bruce-McArthur&p=14061268#post14061268
[h=2]Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, 37, alleged victim of Bruce McArthur[/h]
 
EAST
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ight=Cassandra
Cassandra Do, Transgender, August 2003 The Village, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...am-40-Toronto-ON-5-Sept-2010&highlight=Kayhan
Skandaraj Navaratanam September, 2010 The Village
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...Faizi-42-Toronto-28-Dec-2010&highlight=Kayhan
Abdulbasir (Basir) Faizi December, 2010 The Village
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ht=Aman+Abdela
Aman Abdela, 33, Toronto, Ont, May 2014 Sherbourne/Wellesley
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?251973-Canada-Stephen-Perkovic-37-Toronto-Ont-26-July-2014
Stephen Perkovic, 37, Toronto July 2014 Church/Maitland
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=Frank+Wang
Zhu 'Frank' Wang, 25, Toronto, May 19, 2017 Yonge/Gerrard
Jeffrey Howard, June 2, 2017 Victoria/Shuter
Mohammad Eldardiry, June 12, 2017 Queen/Jarvis
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...=Alloura+Wells
Alloura Wells, Transgender, July 2017 Rosedale, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?352393-Canada-Chase-Kincaid-30-Toronto-11-Aug-2017
Chase Kinkaid August 11 2017 Yonge/College
Sebastian Herve September 1, 2017 Bloor/Parliament
James Gare September 8, 2017 Shuter/Bond
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-November-2017
George Sekaloh November 28, 2017 Dundas/Sherbourne

WEST
Dragan Ilic March 13, 2017 Scarlett/East
Harrison Mantalas May 30, 2017 College/Spadina
Edward Edmond Harding June 1, 2017 Queen/Shaw, Do not approach
Jacques Vermeiren June 29, 2017 Queen/Ossington
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...o-25-July-2017
David Cronkwright July 25, 2017 Eglinton/Keele
Odean McFarlane August 10, 2017 Queen/Ossington, Do not approach
Alexander Man September 7, 2017 Queen/Ossington
Sayed Ahmed Abidy September 13, 2017 Queen/Ossington, Do not approach
Isaiah Silva Fonseca September 18, 2017 Queen/Jameson
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...4#post13865144
Zamil Ali November 2017 Bloor/Spadina
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?358730-Canada-Ayoub-Ibrahim-55-Toronto-3-Dec-2017
Ayoub Ibrahim December 3, 2017 Eglinton/Oakwood

NORTH
Wayne Broadbend March 7, 2017 Victoria Park/Sheppard
John Stephenson May 31, 2017 Don Mills/McNicoll
Igor Vergovic August 14, 2017 Leslie/Sheppard
Sheldon Smith September 15, 2017 Don Mills/Sheppard
Jpaul Amar September 19, 2017 Jane/Finch

OTHER
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...r+unidentified
Unidentified Transgender Remains July, 1980 Markham, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...o-30-June-1984
Robert Plewes June 30, 1984 Toronto/Algonquin
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...0-in-river-Jul-88&highlight=head+peterborough
Unidentified Male Remains July, 1988 Peterborough, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?340789-Canada-Norman-Whalley-36-amp-Grant-Ayerst-21-Toronto-11-Sept-1991&p=13441104&highlight=grant+AYERST#post1344110 4
Norman Whalley September 11, 1991 Toronto/Barrie
Grant Ayerst September 11, 1991 Toronto/Barrie
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=belleville
David Ernest Rowbotham January 24, 1995 Bellville, Ontario
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...-November-1997
John Stanley Grabluk November 15, 1997 Scarborough
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...50-Osteoarthritis-Apr-05&highlight=bobcaygeon
Unidentified Male Remains April, 2005 Bobcaygeon, FOUND DECEASED
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Calvin+Vanness
Calvin Vaness March 26, 2008 Bellville, Ontario
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ight=Choudhury
Osman Choudhury March 6 2017 from Toronto/Milton
Balwant Grewal April 21, 2017 Mississauga
Murray Mulvina May 17, 2017 Scarborough
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ght=Bryce+Hall
Bryce Hall August 4, 2017 Windsor
Rajesh Persaud September 16, 2017 Scarborough
Aaron Giardino September 20, 2017 Mississauga
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...Ont-2-Oct-2017
Eugene Kim Oct 2017 Markham/Algonquin

Noting that a few of these missing/murdered person cases have been updated.
Today, an arrest has been made in the murder of these two men last seen near the village and heading towards Barrie Ontario, although bodies have not been not located. So looks like BM is not responsible.
imo.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?340789-Canada-Norman-Whalley-36-amp-Grant-Ayerst-21-Toronto-11-Sept-1991&p=14065147#post14065147
[h=2]Norman Whalley, 36, & Grant Ayerst, 21, Toronto, 11 Sept 1991[/h]
 
Noting that a few of these missing/murdered person cases have been updated.
Today, an arrest has been made in the murder of these two men last seen near the village and heading towards Barrie Ontario, although bodies have not been not located. So looks like BM is not responsible.
imo.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?340789-Canada-Norman-Whalley-36-amp-Grant-Ayerst-21-Toronto-11-Sept-1991&p=14065147#post14065147
[h=2]Norman Whalley, 36, & Grant Ayerst, 21, Toronto, 11 Sept 1991[/h]
When the list is updated, removing Norman Whalley name, I think that Eugene Kim could also be removed from the list. JMO
 
Cops look for links between accused serial killer and unsolved murders
May 6, 2018

The probe into accused serial killer Bruce McArthur is hitting multi-jurisdictional overdrive as cops try to link the landscaper to unsolved homicides.
Arntfield is a former cop well-known for his involvement in the Cold Case Society and the Murder Accountability Project.

He said that particularly vexing to cops is McArthur’s past as a longtime travelling salesman who sold socks for Stanfields around the province.

It’s believed his sales territory was at different times in northern and eastern Ontario.

But detectives are now also looking at the possibility that the suspected killer may have murdered women as well as men.


“Durham Regional are looking at a number of cases [McArthur lived with his family for years in Oshawa] and not just on young men,” Arntfield said, adding the victimology may be more variable than previously believed.

McArthur allegedly mainly targeted dark-skinned men who may have been vulnerable.

“When he was travelling, in a lot of smaller places at that time there might not be a plentiful supply of his preferred victims,” Arntfield suggested. “It’s very possible he crossed genders.”
rs&bbm

http://torontosun.com/news/crime/co...en-accused-serial-killer-and-unsolved-murders
 
June 18 2018
Digging through cold cases: How the Post identified 22 unsolved homicides that could be linked to Bruce McArthur
"Digging through cold cases: How the Post identified 22 unsolved homicides that could be linked to Bruce McArthur
Although police initially said they were focusing on 15 unsolved homicides between 1975 and 1997, the Post learned the number has expanded to over 20. The timeline itself has also grown"
"The police wouldn’t identify the exact cases on their list, so we took it into our hands. Here’s how we found 22 unsolved homicides that may be linked to the McArthur investigation.

There is currently no evidence connecting these cases to McArthur."
 

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