Stories of Murder in Toronto's Gay Village
Alleged Convicted gay Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur has, as of April 2018, been charged with the deaths of eight men, most of whom are gay/LGBT+. Sgt. Detective Hank Idsinga has said police are reviewing cold case murder files dating back to the 1970s where gay men were slain in the downtown core or after leaving gay … Read more
Murder Village is not a newspaper, we don’t report on crimes as they happen. The discovery and arrest of gay, Toronto-based serial killer Bruce McArthur is being covered in depth in various media (you can search links on Google, Duck Duck Go and NewsLookUp, among many others). Our site is dedicated to presenting information in … Read more
A day after Toronto’s Pride festivities in June 2017, Andrew Kinsman, 49, dropped out of sight, the New York Times reported. He missed his volunteer shift at a food bank. His cat went unfed. Police said he was last seen on Monday, June 26, near Parliament and Winchester streets in Cabbagetown, an area that borders … Read more
At a news conference on Thursday, January 18, 2018, Homicide Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga of the Toronto police announced that a man had been arrested that morning and charged with first-degree murder. He was Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old self-employed landscaper from Thorncliffe Park. The two men named in the charges were Selim Esen and Andrew Kinsman. … Read more
On Monday, January 29, 2018, Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga told reporters that Toronto police had laid three more counts of first-degree murder against Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old landscaper. The new charges named Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi and Dean Lisowick. McArthur was already charged in the deaths of Andrew Kinsman and Selim Esen. “What kind of case … Read more
On Monday, March 5, 2018, Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga of the Toronto police homicide squad displayed a photograph of a dead man at a press conference. Police believed he was another victim of Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old landscaper charged with first-degree murder in six deaths. They did not know his name. Idsinga said investigators had used … Read more
Early on a Saturday morning in August 2015, Soroush Mahmudi woke before his stepson and left him breakfast. Then he went out the door. His wife, Fareena Marezook, told the Toronto Star that he did not come home that day. The Star reported that police now believe that was the day he was killed. He … Read more
In October 2012, a man walking down a street saw a poster of Majeed Kayhan on a telephone pole. “Missing,” he told W5 in 2018. W5 identified him only as Chris and hid his face. Chris said he and Kayhan had gone on a few dates and then settled into friendship. Kayhan was 58. According … Read more
On the morning of Wednesday, April 11, 2018, Bruce McArthur appeared by video in a College Park courtroom in Toronto. The Toronto Star reported that the room was moderately full. McArthur, 66, a self-employed landscaper, wore an orange jumpsuit and stood close to the camera. A seventh charge of first-degree murder was filed against him. … Read more
On September 19, 2010, Navaseelan Navaratnam posted on Facebook that his brother in Canada was missing. “Hope he is fine,” he wrote, and he said there had been “12 days no news of him.” Two days later he posted again, in capital letters, asking anyone in Toronto who could help find his brother to contact … Read more
Cassandra Do had arranged to meet her brother and sister on the evening of Monday, August 25, 2003. When she did not answer her door or her cellphone, they asked the building superintendent to let them in. The Toronto Star reported in 2006 that she was found face down in a bathtub full of water, … Read more
A phone call brought police to an apartment on Tyndall Avenue in Parkdale on Saturday, April 29, 2000. Inside was the body of James Campbell, 63. The Toronto Star reported that his sister had found him and that police believed he knew his attacker. James Thomas Campbell was known as Jimmy. The Star spelled it … Read more
Thirty-one-year-old Deanna (Thomas) Wilkinson was the last victim of spree killer Marcello Palma, who killed three prostitutes within just a few hours on Victoria Day weekend, May 20, 1996. Wilkinson was also a songstress who had performed at various venues, and was a poetess and short story writer. The Sex Workers Alliance of Toronto held … Read more
Shawn Keegan was just 19 years old when they was murdered by Toronto spree killer Marcello Palma. Keegan, described as a “transvestite prostitute”, was killed with the same gun as “female prostitute” Brenda Ludgate, 25, and “transsexual prostitute” Deanna (Thomas) Wilkinson, 31, within about three hours, on May 20, 1996. Keegan had lived for some … Read more
At 1:30 p.m. on Friday, October 28, 1994, a woman’s body was found behind the Palais Royale dance hall on Lake Shore Boulevard West. The Toronto Star reported two days later that she had been strangled. She was Virginia Lee Coote, 33, known to her friends as Flex. The Star said the body had washed … Read more