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<\/p>\nAmid Fears of Serial Killer, Toronto Police Arrest Landscaper for Murders of Two Gay Men: WATCH<\/b>
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Toronto police today arrested 66-year-old landscaper Bruce McArthur and charged him with two counts of first-degree murder related to the disappearances of\u00a0Andrew Kinsman, 49, and Selim Esen, 42, two gay<\/a> men<\/a> who went missing last year near a downtown neighborhood known as the center of the city\u2019s LGBTQ community.<\/p>\n Selim Esen and Andrew Kinsman<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The National Post<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Homicide Detective-Sgt.\u00a0Hank Idsinga said Bruce McArthur, who works as a self-employed landscape designer was arrested at 10:25 a.m. this morning after significant progress was made in the investigation into the Village disappearances on Wednesday.<\/p>\n The Toronto Star<\/em> adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n Idsinga said investigators had been looking into McArthur\u2019s involvement for several months, but evidence recovered Wednesday prompted McArthur\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n Neither Esen nor Kinsman\u2019s body has been found, police said. Police have initiated search warrants at four Toronto properties and a fifth in Madoc, Ont., which are associated with McArthur.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re conducting these search warrants in an effort to locate the bodies,\u201d Idsinga said.<\/p>\n He did not give any specifics as to the evidence that prompted McArthur\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n Towleroad\u2019s Michael Fitzgerald reported on the cases earlier this year<\/a>:<\/p>\n In August,\u00a0Toronto<\/a>\u00a0police voiced\u00a0concerns that the disappearance of Esen and Kinsman from the city\u2019s gay<\/a> village could be linked to three other men<\/a> who have not been seen for more than five years.<\/p>\n In a press release issued in August, Toronto police confirmed that they were investigating whether the two missing persons cases are connected.<\/p>\n Vice<\/b><\/a>\u00a0reported that the latest cases bear a striking resemblance to the disappearance of three men<\/a> from the village between 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n Detective Sergeant Michael Richmond noted in the press release that while \u201csome members of the community and media have made a connection between the disappearance of Mr. Kinsman and that of 11 other males<\/a>,\u201d that line of inquiry was factually incorrect and \u201cquite misleading.\u201d However, police admitted that they are concerned about possible links to the 2010-2012 cases. All three of those men<\/a> were in their 40s or early 50s, were Arab or East Asian, and frequented the same venues on Church Street in the village.<\/p>\n Vice noted<\/a>:<\/p>\n There are reasons to suspect that the cases are merely an eerie coincidence. Kinsman is white, meaning he doesn\u2019t quite fit the profile established by the first three men<\/a> to disappear.. The five year gap between when the last man<\/a> when missing, in 2012, and these two cases also suggests that, while they may be suspicious, the causes of these disappearances are unrelated.<\/p>\n Yet there are similarities. Esen fits the profile to a T. Of the five cases, all are of similar age, build, and all have facial hair.<\/p>\n Even more strangely, a hypothesis floated by an internet sleuth on an online message board some four years ago also rings true: All of the disappearances have been around holiday weekends. Kinsman, over Pride. Esen, over Easter. The previous three cases: Labour Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n Amid fears over the summer that police weren\u2019t taking these cases seriously, Richmond said the investigation into Kinsman\u2019s disappearance was in the process of \u201cramping up,\u201d and police were getting set to conduct another search of his apartment.<\/p>\n The post Amid Fears of Serial Killer, Toronto Police Arrest Landscaper for Murders of Two Gay Men: WATCH<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\nRELATED:\u00a0Men Missing From Toronto\u2019s Gay Village Could Be Connected to Three Open Cases: VIDEO<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n
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