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http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/40209

Bruce McArthur investigation,
Update,
Additional charges


Broadcast time: 11:35
Monday, January 29, 2018

Homicide
416-808-7400


On Thursday, January 18, 2018, Bruce McArthur was arrested and charged with two counts of First-Degree Murder in relation to the deaths of Selim Esen, 44, and Andrew Kinsman, 49.

See previous release.

As a result of an ongoing investigation, on Monday, January 29, 2018, Bruce McArthur was charged with three additional counts of First-Degree Murder.

Police allege he is responsible for the deaths of:

1) Majeed Kayhan, 58, of Toronto, reported missing in October 2012
2) Soroush Mahmudi, 50, of Toronto, reported missing in August 2015
3) Dean Lisowick, 47, of no fixed address

Photographs of the five victims are being released.

Police continue to search properties associated to Mr. McArthur and are asking anyone who received landscaping services from him to contact police, if you have not been contacted already.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-2021, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477), online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637). Download the free Crime Stoppers Mobile App on iTunes, Google Play or Blackberry App World.


For more news, visit TPSnews.ca.


Meaghan Gray, Corporate Communications, for Detective Sergeant Hank Idsinga, Homicide
 
Killings in Toronto’s gay community highlight dangers faced by sex workers
January 30, 2018

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...At a town hall meeting last summer, members of Toronto's gay community, worried that a serial killer was operating in their midst, warned that the city's sex workers might be particularly at risk.

That fear proved prescient, as police reported on Monday that Dean Lisowick, a common face in the Gay Village and long-time sex worker, is believed to be the last known victim of alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur.

...Mr. Lisowick had never been reported missing and was homeless at the time of his disappearance. Police were not even able to give a precise date for when they believe he died. According to the charge information filed in court on Monday, Mr. Lisowick may have died anywhere between April, 2016, and March, 2017. At their news conference, police said he may have been alive as late of July, 2017.

Monica Forrester, program co-ordinator at Maggie's Toronto Sex Workers Action Project, said she saw Mr. Lisowick last summer, likely in July, at one of his regular spots on Church Street.

"He's been around," she said. "I've seen him. I can clearly remember him."


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp...rs/article37800442/?__twitter_impression=true
 
Thanks tarabull for starting this thread!
http://torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/40209
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Scott Mission was ‘like home’ for alleged serial killer victim Dean Lisowick

Dean Lisowick walked out the doors of The Scott Mission for the last time on April 21, 2016.

He had called the Spadina Ave. shelter his home, on and off, since 2003.

Lisowick has been named of one of at least five men who Toronto police now believe was murdered by Bruce McArthur.

Investigators say he was killed sometime between May 2016 and July 2017. No one had ever reported him missing.


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Alleged serial killer victim Dean Lisowick remembered as protective, 'sweet guy' and fixture of Gay Village

'He was very street savvy, so it just baffled me that he of all people would be a victim,' friend says

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...weet-guy-and-fixture-of-gay-village-1.4513518

Investigators have not provided any details on how Mahmudi and Lisowick might have known McArthur.

McGowan said he still has trouble thinking of Lisowick as a victim.

"Dean had some mental health issues and he wasn't a very trusting person," McGowan told CBC Toronto. "It just surprises me that this person could have got the drop on him."

McGowan hadn't seen Lisowick in two years, since he moved out of the neighbourhood, but said everyone who spent a long time in the Gay Village knew him as a "sweet guy."
 
http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/02/07/advocates-protect-risk-homeless/
[h=1]Advocates want the city to track, protect at-risk homeless[/h] by Nitish Bissonauth

Posted Feb 7, 2018
“We do need a better system for tracking people, who, particularly at the margins, disappear and ultimately, maybe face a tragic end,” Nicki Ward, director of the Church-Wellesley Neighbourhood Association, said.

In the case of Lisowick, that tragic end went unnoticed until last week when he was identified as one of three people whose dismembered skeletal remains were found in planter boxes at a home linked to McArthur.

Lisowick’s friend Dane said he knew Dean from the shelter system but hadn’t seen him for almost two years.
“I never knew he was missing, I was wondering why I hadn’t seen him for a while,” Dane said.
“He was just this warm, kind-hearted fella’, if you needed a shirt, he’d give it to you.”

According to Sonia Zyvatkauskas, who works for the city’s Shelter, Support and Housing Administration, there isn’t a system in place to track those who go missing from the shelter system and a shelter will only report to the police in some cases.
 
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...-killer-remembered-as-a-gentle-soul-1.4512127
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http://toronto.citynews.ca/2018/02/13/memorial-vigil-dean-lisowick/
Memorial and vigil held for Dean Lisowick
A memorial and vigil was held in downtown Toronto on Tuesday for one of Bruce McArthur’s alleged victims.

Dean Lisowick was honoured at the Church of the Holy Trinity, where his name was added to the Toronto Homeless Memorial.

LGBT and homeless advocate Nikki Ward said Lisowick was a well liked fixture in the community.

“Mr. Lisowick was loved, is loved by a great many people,” she said.

Community members echoed those sentiments, adding that Lisowick was generous and good natured.

“One of the things I really want to get across is that he was a kind soul,” says Colin Johnson who knew Lisowick for over a decade, adding that it’s concerning his absence from the community went unquestioned.
 

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Police believe alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur murdered Dean Lisowick (centre).Provided by Jeff Tunney

Of all of Bruce McArthur’s alleged victims, Dean Lisowick was different.

The 47-year-old was a mainstay in Toronto’s Gay Village where his friends knew him as “Laser,” a polite and gentle man who was always offering to help out the community with odd jobs. Unlike the other alleged victims, Lisowick was never reported missing when he was last seen in 2016. There was no search party or campaign to find him.

Lisowick, who worked as a sex worker in the Village, was estranged from his family. He struggled with homelessness and a drug addiction for years.

He was vulnerable.

“We maybe only lived together for two and half months,” Lisowick’s friend and former co-tenant Jeff Tunney said outside a Toronto courtroom. “He came to my back door once and said he’d be back, but he never came back.”
 

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After investigative delays, funerals finally under way for alleged Bruce McArthur victims

"Haran Vijayanathan didn’t know Dean Lisowick. But when he heard the slain 47-year-old’s body would be left unclaimed in a local coroner’s office, he couldn’t let it stay there. He’d pick up the remains himself and ensure they were put to rest.

Mr. Lisowick, a man who struggled through his life with a crack-cocaine addiction, transience and violent outbursts toward some of his relatives, fell off the radar more than a year ago. In January, police listed his name among the grim ranks of eight men allegedly slain by 67-year-old Bruce McArthur....

Mr. Lisowick’s remains, however, went unclaimed from the coroner’s office. That’s when Mr. Vijayanathan, a community organizer who has spoken out for LGBTQ+ communities throughout the McArthur case, offered to help. On Friday, he will hold a quiet funeral for Mr. Lisowick at the St. James Cemetery. “There was just too much trauma there,” Mr. Vijayanathan said of the situation for Mr. Lisowick’s relatives. He’s been in touch with the family and said he’s doing this to support them, as well...."

After investigative delays, funerals finally under way for alleged Bruce McArthur victims

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(Haran Vijayanathan holds the cremated remains of Dean Lisowick in Toronto on Nov. 1, 2018. Mr. Lisowick’s remains went unclaimed from the coroner’s office and so Mr. Vijayanathan, a community organizer, will hold a quiet funeral for Mr. Lisowick on Nov. 2. CHRISTOPHER KATSAROV/THE GLOBE AND MAIL)
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