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Let me rewind.
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We have three individuals missing
from the LGTBQ community
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in 2012.
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They were possibly victims of cannibalism.
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I had a suspect...
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but he wasn't our guy.
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We exhausted all leads,
and the team had to be disbanded.
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Two years later,
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I received a phone call.
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It's happened again.
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I got a phone call from Charles, frantic.
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"Oh, my gosh, Josh."
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"There's two men missing from the Village,
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and it's identical to the disappearance
of our first three missing men."
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Tonight on CityNews...
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Toronto police are calling
the disappearance of Andrew Kinsman
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"suspicious."
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Selim Esen was last seen
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on April 14th near Yonge and Bloor.
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Their disappearances follow
several unsolved missing persons cases
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going back to 2010.
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I was concerned
that there was someone out there
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slaughtering and killing people.
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Andrew Kinsman
was 6 foot 4 and 230 pounds.
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If somebody like that can get taken,
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no one is really safe.
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A new task force was being created.
It felt like a second chance.
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For three years,
it was hanging over our heads,
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so now we could
actually finish what we started.
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I wanted to go back,
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but I was now retired
from the police service,
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and I was working in another profession,
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and my employer wouldn't let me go back.
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It was extremely disappointing,
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but when I was told that Dave Dickinson
would be leading the case,
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I was extremely excited,
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because I know how dedicated Dave is,
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and he has this ability
to be able to think outside of the box
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and be creative in his investigations,
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and this is a case
that definitely needed that.
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I had been
at homicide for five years,
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and this was the first time
that I was asked to oversee
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a missing person investigation.
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I was starting fresh,
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reviewing missing person files.
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Selim and Andrew were both gay men,
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they were both, uh, middle-aged,
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and they both went missing
from the Village in Toronto,
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just like previous disappearances.
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Selim had no fixed address,
he was kind of living on the street,
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so it was difficult
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to get started on Selim Esen.
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But Andrew Kinsman
was last seen at his residence,
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so we needed to get there
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to search for anything
that would help us understand
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where Andrew might have gone.
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It was creepy entering the apartment,
uh, knowing that he's disappeared.
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The shelves were stocked.
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It didn't appear
like he was planning on leaving anywhere.
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Did something happen here?
Did something happen elsewhere?
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Walk into the very south of the apartment.
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I found his computer room.
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There was a box of old discs
against the south wall,
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and just above it... was a calendar.
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It was on June.
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I looked at the 26th,
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the day that Andrew Kinsman went missing.
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Written on it was "3:00 p.m.,"
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and then written below that was... "Bruce."
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We had to determine
who this Bruce character was,
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and was he involved
in the disappearance of Andrew Kinsman?
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There were three surveillance cameras
in front of Andrew Kinsman's apartment.
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One was across the street,
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facing his front door area.
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And then two others
were, uh, just west of his apartment.
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I retrieved the video surveillance footage
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that the initial investigators
had acquired.
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And I input the day
that Andrew Kinsman went missing.
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I knew that 3:00 p.m.
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Andrew Kinsman was supposedly
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to meet a Bruce...
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...so I started viewing the video
a little bit earlier,
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around 2:45.
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3:00 p.m. passes,
and nothing's coming up yet.
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The only thing I could see
was a red Dodge across the street.
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But then, at 3:07 p.m...
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...an individual leaves
Andrew Kinsman's apartment.
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Andrew Kinsman was a large man.
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He was approximately 6 foot 4, 6 foot 3,
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and you could see that, in the video,
this man towered over the van.
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I believe that man was Andrew Kinsman.
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The van drives off, uh, eastbound.
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I needed to know who was the driver,
who owned that van.
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I took a still image
to a Dodge dealership close to us
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to see if they recognized
exactly what model it was.
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I spoke to the manager,
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and he said, "A hundred percent,
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that's a 2004
25th Anniversary Edition Dodge Caravan."
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It, uh... It... It blew my mind.
I was ecstatic.
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We had the exact year, make, model.
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Everything we needed to know about the van
to now go and search for an owner.
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I requested driver records
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for all the red 2004...
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...Dodge Caravans in Ontario.
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I ended up with 6,181 results.
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We knew that Andrew Kinsman
had Bruce on the calendar,
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so I did a Control-Find
and typed in the name "Bruce."
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It limited that list of more than 6,000
down to five Bruces.
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I began looking into the background
of each and every one of them.
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Four of the five,
there was really nothing.
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But then I got to Bruce McArthur.
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He was a 66-year-old male,
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and he recently had a... a pardon
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for, uh, a conviction
that he received in 2003,
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where he assaulted a male with a pipe.
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And in the summer of 2016,
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he had been involved
in a violent encounter with another man
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in the back of his 2004 Dodge Caravan.
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The same Dodge Caravan
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that we believe picked up Andrew Kinsman
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the last time he is seen.
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So, I put surveillance on Bruce McArthur
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to track his whereabouts,
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and I came into the office,
and, uh, I sat down with the team.
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I said, "Hey, guys, I've, uh...
Came across this guy,
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Bruce McArthur."
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Almost immediately,
Josh began snapping his fingers.
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And then I said,
"I interviewed that guy back in 2013."
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And Dave's head just whipped around,
and he was like, "What?"
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Then I said, "Yeah, he even volunteered
to help with the investigation
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into the first three missing men."
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McArthur said that he had
met Skanda through a friend,
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and, uh, he had dated Majeed.
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He was very forthcoming
with his information,
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made eye contact with me the whole time,
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and there was absolutely
no reason to think
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there was anything more than him
trying to help out the investigation.
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There has been no trace
of 49-year-old Andrew Kinsman
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for 25 days now.
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Forty-three-year-old
Selim Esen hasn't been seen
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since April 15th.
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The gay community is on edge.
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It's astounding that this has
gone on so long, um, unsolved.
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You know, it just... It's unsettling.
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It's scary. Who's gonna be next?
We don't have any answers.
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The last time
51 Division set up a task force
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was for this, Project Houston,
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the disappearance
of these three men from the Village
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between 2010 and 2012.
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All these years later,
there is still no trace of them.
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I was reading in the paper
every day about the missing men,
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and all of these memories
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have just come right back
and punched me in the face again.
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I was just praying
that the team would have leads
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that we just didn't have before
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to be able to find out
who was responsible,
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before it happens again.
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Through surveillance,
we learned Bruce McArthur
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was a landscaper.
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He tended, uh,
a lot of addresses in midtown Toronto
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and tended to high-end residents.
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He had set routines and set patterns.
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He would landscape
the same properties on a Monday,
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a different property on Tuesday.
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He was separated from, uh, his wife.
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He had adult children
and some grandchildren.
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To be honest, he was kind of boring.
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There were many drives to and from work
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where I talked to myself, thinking,
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"Are we... Are we sure?
Are we on the right guy?"
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"Are we really thinking that this guy
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may be responsible
for Andrew Kinsman's murder?"
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So, I asked Charles
to see if surveillance video existed
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of Bruce McArthur with Andrew Kinsman,
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possibly back at his home address.
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Bruce McArthur's apartment
was in a very large, multi-story complex.
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I went to on-site security to see
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what video surveillance was available.
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I started off at June 26th,
when Andrew Kinsman went missing.
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When I went to view that video,
it... it was extremely frustrating.
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It had already been,
uh, deleted and written over.
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But I was able to start watching video
from a few weeks later
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and was able to identify the parking spot
that Bruce McArthur parked at.
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Every day, at the same time,
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Bruce would leave in the morning,
come home at night.
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Running regular hours,
not doing anything out of the ordinary,
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going grocery shopping,
bringing food home.
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Then August 17th,
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I have Bruce McArthur leaving
the apartment complex
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in the red Dodge Caravan.
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And it doesn't come back that day.
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Later the next day, he returns...
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...with a new van.
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I was thinking to myself,
"Well, where is the old van?"
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"What is going on?"
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We needed to do
everything possible to find the van.
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At that point, I had a partner
that I was working with, uh, exclusively.
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Josh is more, uh, mild-mannered
in comparison to me.
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I'm more of a straight shooter,
and I don't take much crap from people.
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At that point, we thought Bruce McArthur,
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he probably scrapped his van.
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So, we came up with a plan.
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My partner and I
looked on a map and found
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all of the auto wreckers in Toronto.
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Josh and I went
to the first wrecking yard.
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And the van was not there.
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Same with the second wrecking yard.
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The third seemed to be abandoned
and out of commission.
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Then we went to the fourth wrecking yard.
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It's just
lane after lane of wrecked cars.
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As far as the eye can see.
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We were driving
past hundreds and hundreds.
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One after the other, after the other.
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And all of a sudden,
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my partner startled me.
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"It's here, it's here,
it's here, we found it!"
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The trunk was open,
and the tires were missing,
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but, other than that,
the van was... was completely intact.
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There were flies
that were attached to the underside.
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There were stains on the carpet,
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on the inside.
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I immediately said,
"Nobody is touching this van."
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"We have to seal this up."
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I was hoping
that we would find some DNA evidence
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that we can actually put
Andrew Kinsman in the van.
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It would be a huge step forward
in the investigation.
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My phone rang.
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It was our biologist
for the Center of Forensic Science.
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She told me that she had obtained
Andrew Kinsman's DNA
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in blood inside that van.
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Now, we can't say for sure
that he got into Bruce McArthur's vehicle.
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But the blood,
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it was maybe the size...
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...of my pinkie nail.
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It would have been easily explainable.
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Maybe he cut himself.
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It was not enough to arrest Bruce McArthur
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for the murder of Mr. Kinsman.
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So, we thought, "How do we get
additional evidence linking Bruce McArthur
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to any of the missing men?"
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Either his cell phone, or on his computer.
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We looked at his cell phone,
and he had it with him all the time.
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So, we thought, "Okay,
let's try to see what's on his computer."
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And I got a warrant
to get into his apartment
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when he was at work.
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In order for us to track his movements...
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...we had put
a GPS tracking device on his vehicle.
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I went to the command center,
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where I set up and waited
for Bruce to leave his residence.
250
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On my screens...
251
00:17:05,190 --> 00:17:07,609
...I watched Bruce McArthur's vehicle
252
00:17:07,693 --> 00:17:08,777
start to move.
253
00:17:10,362 --> 00:17:12,573
I hoped that he would continue
far out of Toronto,
254
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that we wouldn't have to worry about him.
255
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Then, just 20 minutes away
from his apartment...
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...he came to a stop.
257
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We didn't know how long
he was going to be at the address,
258
00:17:30,382 --> 00:17:32,384
but I knew this was our opportunity
259
00:17:32,468 --> 00:17:35,179
to get in
and... and attempt to collect evidence.
260
00:17:37,514 --> 00:17:42,519
I watched the entry team making their way
through the lobby and up elevators.
261
00:17:45,606 --> 00:17:47,983
The first thing I did was take pictures.
262
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I wanted to make sure
that when we leave the apartment,
263
00:17:51,236 --> 00:17:53,572
that I put everything back
the way I found it.
264
00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:58,285
Then I gave the go-ahead
to clone the computer.
265
00:18:02,623 --> 00:18:06,043
Patrick informed me they would probably
need three to three and a half hours
266
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to download the entire computer.
267
00:18:10,589 --> 00:18:13,342
I wanted to get
as much as possible from his computer.
268
00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:20,182
Every percentage could be the difference
between finding evidence and... and not.
269
00:18:21,517 --> 00:18:24,520
I was looking
through Bruce McArthur's bedroom...
270
00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:27,189
...and I saw a rope.
271
00:18:27,272 --> 00:18:31,401
I saw gloves, I saw a tape,
and I saw a metal bar.
272
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Could have been
a... a murder kit, or a bondage kit.
273
00:18:37,991 --> 00:18:40,619
I took a picture
and took the items out to swab them.
274
00:18:41,662 --> 00:18:44,414
I was pacing in the room,
watching the tracker,
275
00:18:45,249 --> 00:18:47,209
and after an hour and a half...
276
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...Bruce started driving back
in the direction of his apartment.
277
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I told the team inside the building,
"You've gotta get out."
278
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Everything was... frantic.
279
00:19:04,518 --> 00:19:08,772
While the, uh, tech crime investigators
disconnected all their tools
280
00:19:08,856 --> 00:19:10,691
from, uh, Bruce McArthur's computer,
281
00:19:10,774 --> 00:19:14,194
I went through my pictures
to put everything back in its place.
282
00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:18,740
I'm watching Bruce McArthur
move down the Don Valley Parkway.
283
00:19:19,575 --> 00:19:22,035
He's moving closer and closer
to his apartment.
284
00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:26,456
And I'm thinking, "We'll get caught."
285
00:19:28,041 --> 00:19:31,086
If Bruce found out
that we had been in his apartment,
286
00:19:32,004 --> 00:19:33,630
we had ruined everything.
287
00:19:44,183 --> 00:19:46,101
We were able to get out of the apartment...
288
00:19:47,352 --> 00:19:49,521
...just as Bruce McArthur was minutes away.
289
00:19:53,317 --> 00:19:56,403
Back at the station,
I opened the clone.
290
00:19:59,156 --> 00:20:02,784
There were web history, chats, emails,
291
00:20:02,868 --> 00:20:03,911
and a myriad
292
00:20:03,994 --> 00:20:06,955
of... of various different, uh, pictures.
293
00:20:08,248 --> 00:20:10,459
But there was nothing that stood out.
294
00:20:11,877 --> 00:20:14,463
Then I discovered metadata...
295
00:20:15,130 --> 00:20:18,967
...indicating a vast amount
of photos had been deleted.
296
00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:22,221
It piqued my interest.
297
00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:28,518
But there's hundreds of thousands
of pieces of information,
298
00:20:28,602 --> 00:20:32,940
and one piece on its own
doesn't really show a lot.
299
00:20:33,690 --> 00:20:35,567
But if you can put them all together...
300
00:20:35,651 --> 00:20:38,528
...you can recover deleted photos.
301
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:41,323
But that takes a lot of time.
302
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:52,751
It's extremely frustrating.
303
00:20:54,586 --> 00:20:56,922
I would be getting
two or three hours of sleep.
304
00:20:58,215 --> 00:21:00,133
I brought my own coffee machine in.
305
00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:02,219
I would drink coffee nonstop.
306
00:21:03,053 --> 00:21:05,514
There were times
I didn't even realize I hadn't eaten.
307
00:21:06,974 --> 00:21:08,976
I was searching for weeks,
308
00:21:09,685 --> 00:21:11,395
and nothing's coming up yet.
309
00:21:14,189 --> 00:21:16,869
There's been no trace
of Kinsman since his disappearance.
310
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:20,821
And another man, Selim Esen,
who disappeared back in April.
311
00:21:20,904 --> 00:21:24,199
Friends and family
have led several searches across the city.
312
00:21:24,283 --> 00:21:25,826
So far, no trace.
313
00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:30,497
Even though
I wasn't part of the investigation,
314
00:21:30,580 --> 00:21:32,249
I was glued to the news,
315
00:21:32,332 --> 00:21:34,042
and I couldn't stop thinking about it.
316
00:21:34,126 --> 00:21:37,629
I n... never thought that it would ever
happen to our brother, you know?
317
00:21:37,713 --> 00:21:39,756
You... You hear
about people who go missing,
318
00:21:39,840 --> 00:21:41,967
but you never think it's gonna affect you.
319
00:21:43,051 --> 00:21:46,471
I was waiting in anticipation
of what was going to happen next
320
00:21:46,555 --> 00:21:49,599
and if they would finally
get some closure for these families.
321
00:21:50,809 --> 00:21:54,271
You go to bed thinking about Andrew,
we wake up thinking about Andrew.
322
00:21:55,063 --> 00:21:56,189
It's... It's all day.
323
00:21:56,273 --> 00:21:58,650
It's... It's... It's life-consuming.
324
00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:02,404
I was exhausted, I was tired.
325
00:22:03,155 --> 00:22:06,825
I had, um, asked one of my colleagues
326
00:22:06,908 --> 00:22:09,161
if he could continue
going through the data
327
00:22:09,244 --> 00:22:10,746
while I was getting some rest.
328
00:22:13,915 --> 00:22:16,543
My colleague called me up
and, uh, told me,
329
00:22:17,127 --> 00:22:20,213
"Charles, I... I think I found photos
330
00:22:20,297 --> 00:22:23,467
of what appeared to be, um, deceased man."
331
00:22:25,385 --> 00:22:27,554
I immediately, uh, drove into work...
332
00:22:30,891 --> 00:22:33,393
and viewed the images that were recovered.
333
00:22:34,770 --> 00:22:36,521
There was Selim Esen,
334
00:22:37,105 --> 00:22:40,192
who had disappeared
a few months before Andrew Kinsman.
335
00:22:40,692 --> 00:22:44,529
The way that he was posed
and the way that his body was positioned,
336
00:22:44,613 --> 00:22:49,201
you could clearly make out
that he was deceased.
337
00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:56,083
To see this was, uh, um, heart-wrenching.
338
00:23:04,341 --> 00:23:06,510
You could see Bruce McArthur's bedroom
339
00:23:06,593 --> 00:23:09,346
and the headboard
that was unique, uh, to his bed.
340
00:23:13,767 --> 00:23:15,227
There was a metal pipe,
341
00:23:15,310 --> 00:23:17,562
and... and it appeared
that that metal pipe was used
342
00:23:17,646 --> 00:23:20,899
to tighten the ligature
around, uh, Selim's neck,
343
00:23:21,483 --> 00:23:23,777
cutting off oxygen
and ultimately killing him.
344
00:23:29,241 --> 00:23:31,868
I... got, uh, goose bumps.
345
00:23:32,661 --> 00:23:34,162
I was holding that metal bar,
346
00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:38,500
and... and to see now that this metal bar
is somehow involved in the murder...
347
00:23:39,668 --> 00:23:44,798
And, uh, it was
a kind of an eerie feeling.
348
00:23:50,053 --> 00:23:51,471
As the day progresses,
349
00:23:51,555 --> 00:23:54,933
we start finding photographs
of other murdered men.
350
00:24:01,648 --> 00:24:04,317
Many of them
were just wearing, uh, a fur coat.
351
00:24:10,157 --> 00:24:12,993
There were men
who we had no idea had been missing.
352
00:24:13,785 --> 00:24:14,619
It's scary.
353
00:24:14,703 --> 00:24:17,581
Um, you know, it's troubling.
354
00:24:17,664 --> 00:24:19,374
How big is this going to get?
355
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:22,878
How... How many men
are we going to... to find?
356
00:24:29,217 --> 00:24:31,178
I was preparing for arrest warrants...
357
00:24:32,429 --> 00:24:35,932
...and I got a telephone call
from a team surveilling Bruce McArthur.
358
00:24:37,225 --> 00:24:39,311
He had just picked up a man...
359
00:24:40,854 --> 00:24:42,606
...and was heading back to his address.
360
00:24:49,946 --> 00:24:52,324
I drove very quickly to the address.
361
00:24:52,407 --> 00:24:53,950
My investigators told me
362
00:24:54,034 --> 00:24:57,162
that Bruce McArthur had already made
his way up to the 19th floor.
363
00:24:58,163 --> 00:25:00,207
I went inside McArthur's building
with Dave.
364
00:25:04,961 --> 00:25:07,756
All the elevators except one
was out of service.
365
00:25:08,632 --> 00:25:11,176
We keep hitting the button.
366
00:25:11,259 --> 00:25:13,428
There's an unarmed male
with Bruce McArthur
367
00:25:13,512 --> 00:25:15,388
that's going to be his next victim.
368
00:25:18,141 --> 00:25:20,894
My adrenaline was... was
all the way up to the roof.
369
00:25:24,064 --> 00:25:27,567
The elevator finally opened,
and it was packed.
370
00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:30,278
We sardined our way in.
371
00:25:41,414 --> 00:25:43,542
We were stopping on every other floor.
372
00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:44,793
My heart was pounding.
373
00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,921
I didn't want anyone dying,
uh, on my watch.
374
00:25:55,095 --> 00:25:56,930
Finally, we got to the 19th floor.
375
00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:03,603
I knock on the door.
376
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:08,733
Silence.
377
00:26:12,195 --> 00:26:15,699
Then we heard the faint,
"Hello? Who's there?"
378
00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:21,746
I grabbed Bruce McArthur by his wrists
379
00:26:21,830 --> 00:26:24,666
and placed my handcuffs on him.
380
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:29,337
I tell Bruce that I'm placing you
under arrest for first-degree murder.
381
00:26:31,089 --> 00:26:33,800
I walked towards Bruce McArthur's bedroom.
382
00:26:40,390 --> 00:26:44,019
He had handcuffed the male to his bed
and had put a blind over his face.
383
00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:49,733
This man was going to be
Bruce McArthur's next victim.
384
00:26:54,529 --> 00:26:55,947
We searched his van.
385
00:26:58,241 --> 00:27:02,454
Uh, a fur coat was located
in... in the storage area.
386
00:27:02,537 --> 00:27:05,790
It was the same fur coat
that I had seen victims wearing
387
00:27:05,874 --> 00:27:08,501
in the photographs
that we had recovered from the computer.
388
00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:13,381
A metal pipe was located
underneath the driver's seat.
389
00:27:14,049 --> 00:27:17,177
The same pipe
that we had seen in his apartment,
390
00:27:17,260 --> 00:27:19,262
that he had used to strangle his victims.
391
00:27:29,439 --> 00:27:31,775
Bruce McArthur was taken
to the police station.
392
00:27:33,151 --> 00:27:37,030
I had the murder weapon,
but I didn't know where the bodies were.
393
00:27:37,906 --> 00:27:41,242
So, I was kind of mad.
I was kind of angry with him
394
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:44,454
and was gonna approach my interview
a little bit differently.
395
00:27:45,830 --> 00:27:47,832
I wanted to have my go at him.
396
00:27:51,378 --> 00:27:54,297
I threw down photographs
of the murdered men.
397
00:27:54,923 --> 00:27:57,676
I said to him,
"Tell me who this person is."
398
00:27:57,759 --> 00:27:59,719
"Tell me where I'm gonna find them."
399
00:28:00,261 --> 00:28:01,638
He just did not answer.
400
00:28:02,972 --> 00:28:06,393
"If you've done something with them
that I'll never be able to find them,
401
00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:09,521
at least tell me that
so I can go and tell the families."
402
00:28:14,567 --> 00:28:15,652
He just sat there.
403
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:26,705
We knew Bruce tended
to landscape properties
404
00:28:26,788 --> 00:28:30,375
that backed onto green space,
properties that backed onto woods.
405
00:28:34,170 --> 00:28:36,965
I thought if Bruce
was gonna dispose of a body,
406
00:28:37,549 --> 00:28:38,842
that's where he would go.
407
00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:47,392
Mallory Crescent was a property
Bruce frequented on a daily basis
408
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:49,018
and stored his equipment.
409
00:28:50,019 --> 00:28:52,397
My partner had the dog handlers come by
410
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,358
and, uh, search the backyard.
411
00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:01,322
The dogs were just
sniffing around it, sniffing around it,
412
00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:03,616
looking up at the... the handler
413
00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,162
and, uh, kept focusing on this planter.
414
00:29:10,373 --> 00:29:13,501
When the planter was opened,
I didn't really want to believe my eyes.
415
00:29:14,502 --> 00:29:16,588
You could see
the layers of the soil,
416
00:29:17,922 --> 00:29:19,215
and then you'd see a bone.
417
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,220
Then you'd see more layers,
and then you'd see, like, a foot.
418
00:29:26,806 --> 00:29:29,184
You'd see more layers,
and then there'd be a skull.
419
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:35,190
The decomposing
remains of six people
420
00:29:35,273 --> 00:29:38,693
have been recovered from planters
seized from this home on Mallory Crescent.
421
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,821
Andrew Kinsman is the only one of the six
422
00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:45,158
whose body parts police have been
able to positively identify so far.
423
00:29:45,241 --> 00:29:48,495
And with backyard excavation
on spots they've identified,
424
00:29:48,578 --> 00:29:50,663
it's likely there will be more victims.
425
00:29:56,669 --> 00:30:00,256
Bruce McArthur worked
in the exact area that I lived.
426
00:30:01,883 --> 00:30:03,551
How did that make you feel?
427
00:30:04,344 --> 00:30:05,470
Sick to my stomach.
428
00:30:10,850 --> 00:30:14,521
Because the person that may be responsible
429
00:30:15,063 --> 00:30:17,065
for the murder of all of these men
430
00:30:17,148 --> 00:30:19,859
could have been
right under my nose the entire time.
431
00:30:25,406 --> 00:30:28,034
We eventually
identified all the men
432
00:30:28,117 --> 00:30:31,371
that Bruce McArthur
had photographs of on his computer.
433
00:30:34,749 --> 00:30:37,168
Soroush Mahmudi was reported missing,
434
00:30:37,669 --> 00:30:40,672
but there was no information
as to what happened to him.
435
00:30:42,048 --> 00:30:45,385
Dean Lisowick was, uh, living
in the shelter system in Toronto.
436
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:47,887
Dean was never reported missing.
437
00:30:49,222 --> 00:30:53,351
And Kirushna Kanagaratnam,
a refugee claimant from Sri Lanka.
438
00:30:53,434 --> 00:30:55,687
It was presumed by friends
that he was in hiding
439
00:30:55,770 --> 00:30:57,564
for fear that he would be deported.
440
00:31:03,403 --> 00:31:05,280
It was, um, heartbreaking...
441
00:31:05,363 --> 00:31:07,115
...and, uh,
442
00:31:08,741 --> 00:31:11,744
I felt for the, uh, family and friends
443
00:31:11,828 --> 00:31:17,083
of... of everyone who'd been looking
for these... these males for years.
444
00:31:21,045 --> 00:31:23,631
McArthur's victims came to Toronto
to start a new life.
445
00:31:26,217 --> 00:31:29,637
They tried to live life to the fullest,
446
00:31:29,721 --> 00:31:30,721
and...
447
00:31:32,390 --> 00:31:34,142
...Bruce McArthur...
448
00:31:36,269 --> 00:31:37,478
took that from them.
449
00:31:50,199 --> 00:31:52,160
I was in the first row.
450
00:31:53,202 --> 00:31:54,078
Um...
451
00:31:56,706 --> 00:32:00,585
And just hearing him say "guilty"
over and over and over again
452
00:32:00,668 --> 00:32:05,131
was... was a really great, great feeling.
453
00:32:06,549 --> 00:32:09,469
We unfortunately
can never bring these men back,
454
00:32:09,552 --> 00:32:12,680
but, um, I'm hoping
we can start bringing some closure
455
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,474
to the families and the communities.
456
00:32:14,557 --> 00:32:16,267
Bruce McArthur has pled guilty.
457
00:32:16,351 --> 00:32:17,685
I'm not considering it a win.
458
00:32:17,769 --> 00:32:20,104
It's, uh... You know,
it's the right outcome.
459
00:32:23,483 --> 00:32:25,735
I was the one that started this,
460
00:32:26,444 --> 00:32:27,987
and I can now close that door.
461
00:32:30,448 --> 00:32:31,448
Sorry.
462
00:32:43,127 --> 00:32:45,254
The emotions, just like now,
463
00:32:46,005 --> 00:32:47,090
were overwhelming.
464
00:32:48,549 --> 00:32:52,261
I was proud... of the team.
465
00:32:53,221 --> 00:32:57,642
I was so thankful
that the families finally had closure,
466
00:32:57,725 --> 00:33:01,229
that the community could feel safe again.
467
00:33:02,689 --> 00:33:06,526
And there were no words
that could describe
468
00:33:07,318 --> 00:33:09,904
the sense of relief, as well,
469
00:33:10,571 --> 00:33:15,535
um, that I had that no more men
would now go missing.