A iendly garner and mall Santa, McArthur may also have been the worst ever serial killer of gay men. Did police turn a bld eye?
Contents:
- BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
- ANTI-GAY BIAS HRED TORONTO POLICE AS A SERIAL KILLER ROAMED
- CRACKG THE TORONTO GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER CASE: HOW BCE MCARTHUR WAS FALLY CGHT
- ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO 'SER FLAWS' TORONTO SERIAL KILLER VTIGATN
- UNEXPECTED VICTIM MAY HAVE REVEALED CANADA'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
BCE MCARTHUR: GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE
For almost a , Bce McArthur ed Toronto's Gay Village as a huntg ground for victims. * gay serial killer canada *
McArthur will not be eligible for parole before he is source, Toronto Police/BBCImage ptn, Clockwise om upper left: Selim Esen, Andrew Ksman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kishna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Soroh MahmudiMost of his victims had ti to Toronto's Gay Village neighbourhood, as did McArthur were Selim Esen, Andrew Ksman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kishna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam and Soroh Mahmudi. NBC News lled him "Canada's 'Gay Village' serial killer, " sce the seven years before his arrt, he had murred at least eight men nnected one way or another to the Church and Wellley neighborhood, the cy's gay enclave. All of the victims had one thg mon: they were all gay men.
ANTI-GAY BIAS HRED TORONTO POLICE AS A SERIAL KILLER ROAMED
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Ksman was well known the neighborhood for his gay rights activism and his time tendg bar at a popular Church and Wellley waterg hole, and his iends drew attentn to his disappearance by postg flyers wh his picture on them.
Such surroundgs were obvly not nducive for g out as gay. At the time, they were livg Oshawa, a small cy east up the ast of Lake Ontar om Toronto, where there was no such thg as a gay scene. When Bce left Janice 1998 or 1999, unr amible circumstanc, he moved to Toronto to beg his new life as an out gay man.
CRACKG THE TORONTO GAY VILLAGE SERIAL KILLER CASE: HOW BCE MCARTHUR WAS FALLY CGHT
An quiry found that systemic discrimatn terfered wh efforts to tch a murrer who targeted gay men, mostly of Middle Eastern or South Asian scent. * gay serial killer canada *
McArthur also began explorg his newfound sexual eedom by equentg Toronto's gay district, the Church and Wellley neighborhood, but he soon began to show that he was not as jolly as the red velvet su would lead one to believe. He was actually exiled om the Gay Village 2003, after he ed a metal pipe to asslt a man there 2001.
ANTI-GAY BIAS LED TO 'SER FLAWS' TORONTO SERIAL KILLER VTIGATN
The se of Bce McArthur has drawn parisons to that of Stephen Port, who poisoned and killed gay young men he met onle. * gay serial killer canada *
For three years, he was not allowed to enter the Gay Village. All of them were gay. From 2010 to 2017, gay men had been disappearg alarmg numbers om Toronto’s lively gay village.
Some argued that police were too slow to warn the muny of a possible serial killer, sayg liv uld have been make matters worse, Toronto police appeared to put some blame on the gay muny for the killgs when chief Mark Snrs told reporters that they might have ught McArthur sooner had rints of the gay village been more forthg.
”Toronto police had already been banned 2017 om the Gay Pri para, followg lobbyg om Toronto’s chapter of Black Liv Matter. Their requt to participate 2018 was, April, a move that some have terpreted as an acknowledgment of their neglect of the gay muny, police announced that they were reopeng 25 ld s – all murrs associated wh Toronto’s gay date om 1997 all the way back to no one is suggtg is Santa to serial killerWhile vtigators are still velopg a profile of the alleged serial killer, they are certa of one thg. His age, as well as his unthreateng appearance – round featur and a broad, cheery se – ma him seem approachable to children shoppg wh their parents, as well as to gay men seekg a dark sexual enunter wh someone they uld McArthur a photo posted on a social media acunt.
UNEXPECTED VICTIM MAY HAVE REVEALED CANADA'S 'GAY VILLAGE' SERIAL KILLER
As officials Canada tried to track down a serial killer who targeted gay men Toronto’s Village, they were thrown off by a post on a nnibalism fantasy fom. * gay serial killer canada *
Photograph: RtersAfter divorcg his wife, McArthur, who had been active on his church board Oshawa, east of Toronto, beme a regular the cy’s gay village. McArthur had been brought to the attentn of lol police 2002, when he was arrted for attackg a gay prostute wh a metal bar.
He was sentenced 2003 to two years probatn and told to stay away om the gay 2010, reports started to e through of men gog missg om the village.