Serial killer in Canada: excavations to be extended to the search of victims

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Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:51

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The police, assisted by sniffer dogs, corpses, searched the always Wednesday of the properties of Toronto in search of other victims to a landscape gardener accused of serial murders, according to the head of the investigation.

The canadian police, was extracted from the human remains of a property, but DNA analyses will be necessary to establish if they correspond to the five victims identified so far.

“It’s going to take time, but we are well equipped,” said the head of the investigation, Hank Idsinga.

Bruce McArthur, 66 years old, was arrested in mid-January and charged with the disappearance and the murder, last spring, two of the men who frequented the gay and lesbian area in Toronto.

He has been charged with three other killings on Monday after the discovery of skeletal remains dismembered in the garden of a property, the provision by a client of his, and which he used to store gardening equipment.

The police, acting on the faith of the “tens” information received since Monday, has expanded its research to thirty properties in the four corners of Toronto, where the landscape gardener has worked and where people could have been buried”.

There is a little more than six months, the Toronto police service has identified Bruce McArthur as a suspect in the disappearance last April of Selim Esen, 44, and in June Andrew Kinsman, a 49 year-old, with whom he had had a long relationship.

According to local media, it was seeing a young man enter the apartment of the suspect that the police decided on 18 January to proceed immediately to the arrest of the latter.

The young man, whose identity has not been revealed, was tied up to the bed in the room of the suspect, but was not injured. At this point, the police have not indicted McArthur for sequestration.

The latter had already been convicted of assault in 2001 on homosexuals, and had for a prohibition against entering the gay district of Toronto, or prostitutes.

One of his latest alleged victims, Dean Lisowick, was homeless and a prostitute, according to police.

The investigators have established a link between one of the alleged victims of McArthur and two other missing persons for several years.

The police has recovered on the computer of the accused of the photos, including those of some of the victims.

The authorities have since reopened the investigation of missing persons since at least 2010, and request the aid of anyone who has been able to call on the services of a gardener in the past.

The police had taken a DNA sample on Bruce McArthur upon his conviction in 2001 and brought his name to a data bank, although we do not know if these elements have played a role in his arrest for murder.