Andrew Ksman's fay is still searchg for answers a day after a Toronto man was charged wh first-gree murr his disappearance and that of another man near the cy's Gay Village last sprg.
Contents:
- LAW STUNT'S FAY SAYS HE WENT MISSG AFTER VISG NYC GAY BAR
- POLICE FD BODY OF MISSG GAY SF MAN
- FAY REELS AFTER MARRIED DAD VANISH FOR 16 YEARS, REAPPEARS GAY
- EMERYVILLE PD TALK TO MAN WHO CLAIMED TO KNOW MISSG GAY SF MAN HAD BEEN MURRED
- MEN KEPT GOG MISSG FROM TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE — WHY DID POLICE DENY THERE WAS A SERIAL KILLER?
- HUMAN REMAS FOUND MISSG GAY MAN'S HOME
- MISSG GAY MAN OM MANCHTER ATTACK CONFIRMED AS 10TH VICTIM
- THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
- GAY MEN GO MISSG CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
- FAY OF ANDREW KSMAN, WHO DISAPPEARED NEAR TORONTO'S GAY VILLAGE, 'WANT THE TAILS' OF HOW HE DIED
- GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
LAW STUNT'S FAY SAYS HE WENT MISSG AFTER VISG NYC GAY BAR
A New York Cy law stunt has been missg for nearly two weeks, and his brother said his last known lotn was a gay bar Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood. * missing gay man *
A New York Cy law stunt has been missg for nearly two weeks, and his brother said his last known lotn was a gay bar Manhattan’s Hell’s Kchen neighborhood. A gay man reported missg by his iends and fay was spotted March 17 at a hotel Washgton, D.
The body of a gay San Francis man whose fay traveled om Illois last week to look for him has been found, acrdg to an announcement ma late Febary 15. Woel's disappearance rells the se of Brian Egg, a gay San Francis man who went missg 2018. "At 6 years old, I knew I was attracted, drawn very heavily toward other people my same sex, " said Myers: A New LifeMyers said that bee he was gay, he felt forced to create a fake persona om a young age.
POLICE FD BODY OF MISSG GAY SF MAN
For years, rints of the Village, an LGBTQ-iendly enclave Toronto, spected there was a serial killer their midst. From 2010 to 2017, several men the neighborhood vanished. Missg persons posters plastered the siwalks. A sense of unease pervad the Village, acrdg to “Catchg A Serial Killer: Bce McArthur,” a new special on Oxygen. Dpe the rash of disappearanc and the siari between the missg men — many were of Southeast Asian or Middle Eastern scent, all were gay, all vanished wh the same area — Toronto police refuted the ia of a serial killer even jt several weeks before the arrt of Bce McArthur, a 60-somethg landsper and ocsnal mall Santa who was eventually nvicted of murrg eight men. "We follow the evince, and the evince tells that's not the se right now. The evince today tells there's not a serial killer,” Police Chief Mark Snrs said December 2017, the Toronto Star reported at the time. The Toronto police was heavily cricized by the public for this cisn, wh many claimg racism and homophobia hampered the vtigatn, and others sayg uld’ve saved liv if thori hadn’t downplayed the ia there was a serial killer the area, as seen the special. In fact, June 2018, an pennt review began of how Toronto police review missg persons s, and whether police’s vtigatns uld have been “tated by systemic bias or discrimatn,” acrdg to a 2019 Toronto Star article. Sasha Reid, a Universy of Toronto PhD ndidate specializg statistil analysis of missg persons and sexually motivated killers, told CTV News 2018 that she had warned Toronto police a serial killer was preyg on men the Village a year earlier. While creatg her own missg persons database she noticed strikg siari between some of the vanished men. “At a certa pot, you know that there is a serial killer operatg. Studyg serial homici for over 10 years now, you learn not to ignore patterns,” Reid said. “I got terted maybe creatg a reverse profile. So I ed victim data to create a crimal profile for the police, and armed wh that data, I gave them a ll.” Authori thanked her for the data, but that was the end of the nversatn, said Reid. Universy of Toronto associate profsor of soclogy Jooyoung Lee also spoke about the possibily of a serial killer an terview wh 2017, sayg the disappearanc have “all the signs of what we typilly see” serial murrs. “Any time you have a llectn of missg persons s … that ually is a kd of warng sign. And sort of fs to the narrative of a lot of other [serial homici] s,” Lee said. “Jefey Dahmer, for example, ed to hunt for his victims gay bath ho and gay bars Milwkee.” Police acknowledged they were gettg many lls reportg spicns a serial killer was stalkg the area, the outlet noted, but did not label the missg persons s as a strg of serial killgs until McArthur’s pture. Why? Well, Toronto thori have long mataed there was no actual evince potg toward a serial killer, which is they never told the public one may exist. "We've always had that feelg," Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsga told CBC News 2018. "Until I have that evince, I n't say . And that's what we dig for […] It's easy to say hdsight now 'well, you should have known somethg is up.' Well, we did know that somethg was up, we jt didn't know what was and we didn't have any evince of what was gog on.” There wasn’t even any evince, Idsga emphasized to the Toronto Star that same year, a crime had been mted. After all, there were no bodi found. The men were simply gone. Two other people who had vanished around that time ame weren’t victims of foul play at all — one died by suici and the other eventually turned up jt fe. “You never know what the end rult is gog to be. Jt bee somebody’s missg don’t mean they’ve been murred. First you have to tablish that there’s been a crimal offense and then ci what his role is that offense beg vtigated. Was he a spect, was he a wns, was he a victim?” Idsga said. Police Chief Snrs mataed that fense, tellg CP24 2018, "As soon as that evince was received that had the abily to make an arrt we exercised what we had to do […] “The evince was prented to at that particular moment was very accurate. In the urtroom the storyl will play out and will articulate exactly what happened, what we knew and what we did wh and based on that did we do the right thg or the wrong thg. I’m fortable wh the vtigatn.” However, he then sparked fury wh ments ma that same year when he told reporters, “We knew that people were missg and we knew we didn’t have the right answers, but nobody was g to wh anythg,” acrdg to a 2018 The Guardian article. Some took his remark as blamg the muny for not stoppg McArthur’s attacks, stead of acknowledgg police error. Outrage was further stoked when was eventually revealed McArthur, who had already been nvicted of asslt wh a weapon 2001 after attackg a sex worker wh a pipe, had been acced of stranglg a man durg a sexual enunter 2016, acrdg to the Toronto Star. McArthur had turned himself to the police after the victim lled 911 and he was then released whout charg, the outlet reported. McArthur had been spoken to by thori already the se when he was acced of vlence 2016 — 2013, police had found a nnectn between him and the first three men to go missg: Skandaraj "Skanda" Navaratnam, Abdulbasir "Basir" Faizi, and Majeed "Hamid" Kayhan, CBC News reported 2019. McArthur was then terviewed as a wns, where he admted to havg had a sexual relatnship wh Kayhan and a social relatnship wh Navaratnam, but nied knowg Faizi. Sgt. Pl Gthier, who was the officer who let McArthur go, was later h wh disciplary charg of subordatn and neglect of duty relatn to his handlg of the accatn, CTV News reported 2019. He has sce pled not guilty and is awag the oute of the se. In June 2018, amid the anger and tratn wh the Toronto Police, an pennt review led by retired judge Gloria Epste to the way the partment handled missg persons s began. The review end November 2020 after speakg wh over 1,200 people, and the full report as well as Epste’s remendatns will be released some time early 2021, Toronto Cy News reported at the time. McArthur was sentenced to life prison 2019 for the murrs of Selim Esen, Soroh Mahmudi, Dean Lisowick, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Andrew Ksman, Kishna Kanagaratnam, and Majeed Kayhan. For more on this se, watch Oxygen’s new special, “Catchg A Killer: Bce McArthur.” * missing gay man *
"To live a disguise is a horrible prison, " said Ruggiano, her father sayg that he left bee he was gay do not make up for all of the years lost. "I know a lot of people who would never do this … absolutely never blame on their homosexualy.
FAY REELS AFTER MARRIED DAD VANISH FOR 16 YEARS, REAPPEARS GAY
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Emeryville Police have talked to a person who claims to have knowledge of the whereabouts of a gay San Francis man who disappeared early this year, acrdg to a fay member, as San Francis Police seek the public's help fdg him. 's disappearance rells the se of Brian Egg, a gay San Francis man who went missg 2018. Dpe the rash of disappearanc and the siari between the missg men — many were of Southeast Asian or Middle Eastern scent, all were gay, all vanished wh the same area — Toronto police refuted the ia of a serial killer even jt several weeks before the arrt of Bce McArthur, a 60-somethg landsper and ocsnal mall Santa who was eventually nvicted of murrg eight men.
The evince today tells there's not a serial killer, ” Police Chief Mark Snrs said December 2017, the Toronto Star reported at the Toronto police was heavily cricized by the public for this cisn, wh many claimg racism and homophobia hampered the vtigatn, and others sayg uld’ve saved liv if thori hadn’t downplayed the ia there was a serial killer the area, as seen the special. “Jefey Dahmer, for example, ed to hunt for his victims gay bath ho and gay bars Milwkee.
The Florida rint lled his brother, Brian Egg, 65, a gay man, at his San Francis home and an answerg mache picked up. In Puerto Vallarta, Mexi, Rubén Michel Castro Guízar (32), who intified himself as a Deaf gay man and was an LGBTQ+ activist Puerto Vallarta, went missg after a Pri para on May 25th. Guizar, a 32-year-old Deaf gay Mexin man, was vlently murred after participatg a Pri march on May 25th Puerto Vallarta, extend our heartfelt ndolenc to Guizar's fay, iends, and muni, who are mourng the sensels loss of this vibrant are profoundly alarmed by the latg number of vlent hate crim targetg LGBTQ dividuals.
EMERYVILLE PD TALK TO MAN WHO CLAIMED TO KNOW MISSG GAY SF MAN HAD BEEN MURRED
Missg gay man om Manchter who attend Ariana Gran ncert has been nfirmed ad. His boyiend Tweeted the news early the morng. RIP. * missing gay man *
Acrdg to a study nducted by the Williams Instute at UCLA, LGBTQ people are ne tim more likely than non-LGBTQ dividuals to fall victim to vlent hate crim……To our alli and muni: We implore you to actively bat racism, homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, cisssexism, sexism, anti-semism, ableism, vidism, xenophobia and other forms of discrimatn whenever you enunter them (when safe to do so). The Dallas County Medil Examer has yet to terme the e of ath for Alan Whe, the Dallas gay man who disappeared last October and whose body was found last week. Likewise, she highlighted Michel’s double vulnerabily for beg a af person and for beg a gay man, which placed him at a disadvantage pared to his aggrsor or aggrsors.
Sadly, a gay man has been nfirmed as one of the ad as a victim the terror attack at an Ariana Gran ncert Manchter. Martyn was also a wrer, ocsnally ntributg to gay foced magaz like Attu and QX. [Most all of this article was taken om Gay Star News, thored by Stefanie Gers.
MEN KEPT GOG MISSG FROM TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE — WHY DID POLICE DENY THERE WAS A SERIAL KILLER?
“Last Call,” by Elon Green, retrac the murrs of four men by a serial killer the 1990s, at a time when gay men felt prsured to hi their sexualy and were often the victims of homophobia. * missing gay man *
Both victims — olr, whe-llar profsnal men, wh the heterosexual vtments of marriag and children — had last been seen at an upsle Midtown Manhattan gay piano bar lled the begs Elon Green’s terrific, harrowg, te-crime acunt of an elive serial killer who preyed upon gay men the 1990s, perfidly turng the safe havens of gay bars to huntg grounds, and semi-anonymo late-night hookups to an opportuny to kill wh impuny. The most prolific serial killers explo the vulnerabili of the social orr; the “Last Call Killer” took advantage of gay men’s need for discretn and the enmic homophobia of law enforcement. Here was a generatn of men, more or ls, for whom was difficult to be visibly gay.
Closeted gay people do, of urse, lead rich, satisfyg existenc, even if they leave fewer trac. Gay men prsured to hi their sexualy at the height of the AIDS epimic are particularly sceptible to all-nsumg tragic seems to anticipate this journalistic nundm. Wh great passn, he wins his spe to explore the social value of gay bars to the queer muny and the val work of grass-roots groups like the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, which fought for fair treatment for gay crime victims durg a perd when they were often treated like reer crimals.
HUMAN REMAS FOUND MISSG GAY MAN'S HOME
Gay men are disappearg Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights activist and a leadg opposn newspaper Rsia. * missing gay man *
For the better part of a , mors about a serial killer hnted Toronto’s Gay Village, a gentrifyg neighborhood of rabow-flag street signs and historic Victorian hom where bathho and X-rated vio stor were slowly beg replaced by banks and cha ffee shops. As one gay man after another disappeared unr myster circumstanc, rints nceled plans to go out, rried pepper spray on walks and ma sure their neighbors knew when to expect them home.
MISSG GAY MAN OM MANCHTER ATTACK CONFIRMED AS 10TH VICTIM
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In January 2018, police announced that Bce McArthur, a regular at the neighborhood’s gay bars, had been charged wh killg five men, dismemberg them and hidg their remas flower pots at a private home where he worked as a landsper. There was no longer any doubt that a serial killer had been stalkg Gay Village. Acrdg to the Globe and Mail, almost all of his victims had equented the bars and nightclubs Gay Village, though several were not openly gay.
THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
” the Toronto Star’s edorial board wrote an op-ed that qutned whether police had shown a bias agast men who equented Church-Wellley, the area known lloquially as Gay Village. Would police have taken more and swifter actn if McArthur’s victims had not been gay or people of lor, homels or addicted to dgs? The first of McArthur’s victims to disappear was Navaratnam, a Sri Lankan refugee who was last seen leavg a gay nightclub wh an unknown man at around 2 a.
GAY MEN GO MISSG CHECHNYA, REPORTS SAY
Later that year, Faizi, an Afghan immigrant, was reported missg after he vised a bathhoe and gay bar. When Kayhan, who was also origally om Afghanistan and a regular at bars Gay Village, vanished the fall of 2012, police lnched a probe to the three men’s disappearanc, llg Project Hoton.
FAY OF ANDREW KSMAN, WHO DISAPPEARED NEAR TORONTO'S GAY VILLAGE, 'WANT THE TAILS' OF HOW HE DIED
Police were not aware that he had any ti to Gay Village, and didn’t spect that his disappearance was nnected to the other men’s until his remas were exhumed om the planters. Likewise, no one ever rmed the police that Lisowik – who reportedly was homels, had been a sex worker Gay Village and was addicted to crack – was missg. Then, June, Ksman failed to show up for work at the Toronto HIV/AIDS Network after attendg Gay Village’s annual Pri para.
A native of ral Ontar, he had realized he was gay at a young age, but married a woman an effort to nceal his sexualy, acrdg to urt rerds obtaed by the BBC. In his 40s, after he me out, he left his wife and children to start over Toronto, where he beme a regular at bars around Gay Village. His sentence required him to stay away om Gay Village, not have ntact wh prostut and stop g amyl nre, or “poppers.
A newspaper and an activist say gay men are beg taed.
GAY MAN RSIA FORCED TO HIDG OVER YOUTUBE TERVIEW
Chechen ernment spokman dismiss allegatn of anti-gay mpaign as "an absolute lie". He said there are no gays Chechnya. Gay men are disappearg Chechnya, acrdg to a human rights activist and a leadg opposn newspaper Rsia.
Novaya Gazeta reported that more than 100 gay men had been taed the last two weeks and said had the nam of three who had been murred.
But Ekatera Sokirianskaia, Rsia project director of the Internatnal Crisis Group, told CNN that the last 10 days she had received rmatn om multiple sourc Chechnya about the tentn of gay men, cludg a hairdrser as well as cultural and relig figur. Sokirianskaia, a Mosw-based expert on the Cs regn that clus the Rsian republic of Chechnya, said the volume of rmatn ma “almost impossible to believe this is not happeng, but is also very difficult to verify bee Chechen society is extremely homophobic. She said was unclear what had triggered the apparent anti-gay mpaign.