Toronto ‘serial killer’ faces three more murder charges, amid citywide garden hunt for bodies

A landscaper charged in the deaths of two Toronto gay men is a suspected serial killer, police said on Monday, as they linked him to three additional victims and scoured sites around Canada’s largest city for more remains.

Bruce McArthur, 66, was arrested earlier this month and charged Monday with three additional premeditated murders after human remains were found “hidden in the bottom of (large) planters” at a property that he used for storage, Toronto police’s lead investigator Sergeant Hank Idsinga said.

McArthur is an “alleged serial killer,” he told a news conference, adding that authorities were searching some 30 properties in Toronto where McArthur worked in their hunt for more dismembered remains.

Police are examining a dozen more planters from various locations across the city, and eyeing two properties for excavation “where people might be buried,” Idsinga said.