Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur posed victims’ corpses with cigars in mouths for photos, prosecutor says
- Bruce McArthur, who preyed on men from Toronto’s Gay Village, had numerous photos of his dead victims on his electronic devices, a sentencing hearing is told
- McArthur has pleaded guilty to eight murders
Police found many photographs of the victims of serial killer Bruce McArthur on his electronic devices, a prosecutor said on Monday as a sentencing hearing began for a former landscaper who preyed upon men from Toronto’s Gay Village.
Prosecutor Michael Cantlon earlier warned people attending the hearing that they could hear details so explicit they could affect health and well-being, and asked them to think twice about whether they wanted to be present.
McArthur pleaded guilty on January 29 to eight counts of first-degree murder. He sexually assaulted, killed and dismembered men he met in Toronto’s Gay Village district over seven years. He faces a potential sentence of life in prison with no chance for parole for 25 years or more.
Cantlon didn’t display the images during the session, but said McArthur staged some after the men were dead: two showed corpses with cigars in their mouths. It wasn’t immediately clear if McArthur had photos of all eight victims.
Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur pleads guilty to eight murders
Police narrowed a list of suspects for missing men from Toronto’s Gay Village after seeing surveillance video of the last victim, Andrew Kinsman, enter a red Dodge Caravan in 2017. They later linked that vehicle to McArthur and found Kinsman’s blood and semen in it.