Toronto Police reportedly found a naked man in the apartment of Bruce McArthur’s apartment prior to his arrest, reports CBC Toronto.
McArthur was charged two weeks ago with the first-degree murder of two men. Both men were reported missing in Toronto in 2017.
They later charged him with the murder of three more men. All the men disappeared in or around Toronto’s gay village in the last eight years.
According to CBC sources, when Toronto police officers stormed McArthur’s Thorncliffe Park apartment, they found a man in restraints.
They saw the man enter McArthur’s apartment early on the morning of 18 January. Believing the man to be in danger, they acted swiftly.
After storming the apartment, they allegedly found the unnamed, restrained man.
It is believed the man went to the apartment seeking a sexual encounter.
Toronto Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga revealed police found the dismembered remains of ‘at least’ three victims last week. They were discovered in the planters in a backyard where McArthur worked. He was a self-employed landscaper in the city.
Toronto authories first arrested McArthur, 66, on 18 January.
Victims
Police initially charged him with the murders of two gay men: Selim Esen, 43, and Andrew Kinsman, 49.
Police later charged McArthur with the murders of Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Marmudi, and Dean Lisowick.
Navaratnam disappeared in 2010. He was last seen leaving popular gay bar Zipperz on 6 September with an unknown man.
Police have confirmed to the Toronto Star that McArthur was not investigated in relation to Navaratnam’s disappearance at the time he went missing.
Besides Navaratnam’s disappearance in 2010, two other men disappeared from the Toronto gay village between 2010 and 2012: Abdulbasir Faizi, 44, and Majeed Kayhan, 58. Police at the time investigated all three disappearances as Project Houston.
Toronto police spokesperson Meaghan Gray told to CBC Toronto that although McArthur was not investigated at the time, police are not ruling out any potential connection.
Police are continuing to search properties where McArthur worked in their search for evidence and the remains of the missing men.
H/T: CBC
