CANADA Canada - David MacDermott, 30, Kitchener, Ontario, 9 Nov 2002

David MACDERMOTT

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David MacDermott, 30 years, was last seen at his residence on Mill Street, Kitchener in the late evening of Saturday November 9, 2002.

Mr. MacDermott was to play in an organized ball hockey game the following Sunday morning but never showed up. Mr. MacDermott is described as 6'1", 186 lbs., with brown hair, and brown eyes and a tattoo of a small ladybug between his shoulder blades.

He is known to have frequented bars in Kitchener and Waterloo. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Waterloo Regional Police Service or Crime Stoppers.

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[h=1]Police probe links between disappearance of Kitchener man and suspected serial killer[/h]

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KITCHENER — Waterloo Regional Police are looking into possible links between the case of David MacDermott, a Kitchener man who disappeared in 2002, and suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur.

Local investigators are quick to say they have not established a known link, but they need to rule out any potential connection to McArthur, the 66-year-old landscaper accused of killing a number of missing gay men in the Toronto area

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McArthur, charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Andrew Kinsmen, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi and Dean Lisowick, was awaiting a sentence for assault when MacDermott vanished after partying at Club Renaissance in downtown Kitchener in November 2002.

MacDermott's body has never been found, and detectives have said suicide or the idea he simply chose to vanish without ever contacting his family is unlikely. Police initially treated his disappearance as a missing person case, but in 2009 told the family they were considering the case as a possible homicide.

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tarabull said:

From missing to possibly murdered: Family of Dave MacDermott wants answers
March 5, 2014

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...The 30-year-old had been at Club Renaissance in downtown Kitchener that Saturday night, celebrating a friend’s birthday.

...In MacDermott’s case, police now believe there is a specific, deliberate reason why remains have never been found.

“Whether Dave fell down and bumped his head and died or died as a result of an altercation, somebody still made a decision to hide his body,” Darling says.

https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/from-m...ly-of-dave-macdermott-wants-answers-1.1715853

(Club R is K-W's gay bar, been there many times)

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tarabull said:

There's some hink with his roommate(s) at the time...fwiw, lots to read here:

Dave MacDermott vanished in one night in Kitchener under strange circumstances and his family is still looking for answers.
November 24, 2017

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/a37x7z/he-went-to-a-bar-15-years-ago-and-was-never-seen-again

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Their call about the MacDermott case is merely a matter of course, local police say. It’s not known if McArthur frequented Kitchener’s gay community, but his arrest has led police forces around southern Ontario to look for possible links to cases of missing men in their jurisdictions, too.

The local man’s family says it is encouraged that Waterloo Regional Police are still looking at the case, but is skeptical the McArthur investigation will reveal much of anything.

“I’d expect that’s something they’d do, but I personally would be shocked,” said Linda Shaw, MacDermott’s mother. “I don’t have that feeling at all. It doesn’t add up.”

Instead, she’s hopeful local police can finally get a break thanks to improvements in forensic technology that didn’t exist when MacDermott’s case was first investigated. The mother has long suspected foul play is responsible for her son’s disappearance, but says there are people who are still refusing to tell the full story.

MacDermott’s family plan to keep up the pressure until someone is caught, she said. The case got national attention last fall from Vice News, and Shaw recently talked to an American producer interested in making a documentary about her son.

“We know the police missed something. They’re retesting some of the forensic evidence that was gathered at the time,” she said. “We know they’re actively investigating, because we won’t let them forget about it.”

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Grey-St said:

This case is still incredibly bizarre and I want it to be solved.

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Colleen Stevens said:

Dave was/is my brother. We want it to be solved as well. I appreciate the fact that other people such as yourself, are interested in Dave's case. We would like nothing other than the Police to find Dave's remains so we can provide him a proper resting place.
Colleen

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Colleen Stevens said:

Dave was/is my brother. We want it to be solved as well. I appreciate the fact that other people such as yourself, are interested in Dave's case. We would like nothing other than the Police to find Dave's remains so we can provide him a proper resting place.
Colleen

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Grey-St said:

Okay, so this is interesting now, not that it wasn't already. Because in the first article, the family seems to think there would be no link to BM. It can't be ignored though, that Club R is a gay bar.

ETA: As I read farther down the record article, it says MacDermott was bisexual.

ETA2: Could it be possible, that while BM was awaiting trial for his assault charges, he was also told even then to stay away from The Village? So he sought out other LGBTQ+ establishments outside the GTA?

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