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Contents:
- THE UNFORTABLE TTH ABOUT TORONTO'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
- SERIAL KILLER WHO STALKED AND TERRORIZED TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE SENTENCED TO LIFE
- CRACKG THE TORONTO GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER CASE: HOW BCE MCARTHUR WAS FALLY CGHT
THE UNFORTABLE TTH ABOUT TORONTO'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
He worked for partment stor as a buyer's assistant his twenti an area which later beme known as a gay village. He veloped a fetish for rough sex and joed a gay fetish datg webse for men to BDSM. He moved to Toronto and regularly spent time the gay village while enterg to relatnships wh men.
He plead guilty to murrg eight men between 2010 and 2017, who had all disappeared whout a trace om Toronto's Gay Village district.
SERIAL KILLER WHO STALKED AND TERRORIZED TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE SENTENCED TO LIFE
The 67-year-old serial killer had plead guilty to the murrs of eight men om Toronto’s gay village between 2010 and 2017. For years, members of Toronto’s gay muny warned that there was a serial killer on the loose, that vulnerable men were gog missg, that the streets were not safe. He plead guilty last a sentencg hearg that end Tuday, Canadians heard how he lured and murred men he met Toronto’s Gay Village, then posed rps stum, keepg pictur of each victim labeled digal learned McArthur was stopped when police raid his home, fdg a man tied to a bed.
He was a potential nth victim, the urt heard, and McArthur had a folr a cy that pris self on beg gay-iendly and welg to new Canadians, McArthur sought out men margalized by their sexualy, ethnicy, immigratn stat or poverty.
CRACKG THE TORONTO GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER CASE: HOW BCE MCARTHUR WAS FALLY CGHT
Some have argued that the police rponse was slowed by homophobia and racism — that the force might have acted more quickly if different men had disappeared. Toronto’s Gay Village is a uple blocks of shops, rtrants and bars the heart of the cy. It was there, the early 1980s, that police raids on bathho spurred Canada’s gay rights movement.