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Lisowick has been named of one of at least five men who Toronto police now believe was murdered by Bruce McArthur.
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“When I think about it, Laser is one of the last people that this should have happened to. Not that it should have happened to anybody, but he was such a good guy.”
On the morning of January 18, police watching McArthur observed a young man entering the Thorncliffe Park building where there the 66-year-old landscaper rented an apartment. When he walked in the 19th floor unit, they knew they had to intervene, according to a police source with knowledge of the events.
When officers decided they had to take action, they entered McArthurs apartment and found a young man tied up but unharmed, according to the source.
None of the information about the circumstances of McArthurs arrest has been officially released by Toronto police.
The energy behind the ongoing investigation into alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur doesnt like the spotlight.
But Toronto police Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga says his right-hand man on the sprawling case, Det. David Dickinson, nonetheless deserves it. The junior homicide cop played a central role in collecting key evidence against the 66-year-old landscaper who stands accused of being Torontos most prolific killer.
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Dickinson, who has about four years on the homicide squad, has been working full-time on the case since August, when officers from 51 division probing the disappearances of Andrew Kinsman and Selim Esen reached out for assistance.
Bruce McArthur, a 66-year-old landscaper, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Andrew Kinsmen, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi and Dean Lisowick.
Police have found the dismembered, skeletal remains of three unidentified people in planters at a Leaside home. They have identified 30 properties linked to McArthur through his landscaping business.
Links between occupation and serial murder are very well established, said Michael Arntfield, a criminologist and professor at Western University.
Serial killers typically use the guise of their job to access locations where they can find victims, Arntfield said.
In this case, he noted, it appears that the killer may have used an occupation to dispose of them.
The grisly story police are now telling, of at least five murdered and quite likely more, has no doubt brought terrible grief to the victims families and friends and fear to the loved ones of other missing persons.
How disquieting, too, for the quiet neighbourhoods where McArthur earned his living as a landscaper and in particular for those residents on whose properties police say they have found, in planters, parts of an unknown number of bodies.
But the statement by Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga on Monday that McArthur was indeed a serial killer, who had been murdering men for at least the better part of a decade, was met by many, particularly within the LGBTQ community, with not only sadness and some degree of fear, but also with anger.
For over seven years, Navaseelan Navaratnam has been carefully guarding a devastating truth from his 80-year-old Sri Lankan mother: no one knows where his brother, Skandaraj, is.
She is a heart patient, said Navaratnam. I dont want to hurt her.
Skandaraj Navaratnam, 40, was last seen in the early hours of Sept. 10, 2010, leaving Zipperz, a now closed bar near Church and Carlton Sts., with an unknown man.
The case of his disappearance would become part of Project Houston an eighteen-month long police task force looking for Skandaraj and two other men who went missing between 2010 and 2012: Majeed Kayhan, 58, and Abdulbasir Faizi, 42.
On Monday, Toronto Police announced three additional counts of first-degree murder have been laid against suspected serial killer Bruce McArthur. One of those counts was in relation to Kayhans death.
Toronto police have arrested a landscaper who they say killed men and buried their body parts in potted plants on the properties where he worked.
Bruce McArthur, 66, is charged with five murders. Authorities expect the number of victims to go up.
"We do believe there are more and I have no idea how many more there are going to be," homicide detective Sgt. Hank Idsinga told reporters Monday.
Police have identified more than 30 properties where McArthur worked and urged his past clients to come forward.
Initially, investigators thought the victims were all from the Gay Village, a neighborhood in Toronto known for its predominantly gay population. But new evidence is expanding the victim profile, Idsinga said.