Bruce McArthur's apartment

This is Bruce McArthur's former apartment building.

It is situated at 95 Thorncliffe Park Drive in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The serial killer lived in apartment number 1915, which is on the 19th floor.

McArthur was born in Lindsay, Ontario, in 1951. During the 1970s, he married a woman named Janice Campbell.

In 1979, the couple moved to Oshawa.

McArthur started having sexual affairs with men in the early 1990s. Not long after, he admitted to his wife that he was homosexual.

Although the couple continued living together for a while, they eventually separated in 1997. Following their split, he moved to Toronto so that he could live closer to its gay community.

Throughout the 2000s, he regularly visited bars in Church and Wellesley, which is an LGBT village in Toronto.

His first known attack took place on the night of October 31st, 2001, when he used a metal bar to assault a man who had invited him back to his apartment.

The man survived the attack but was left unconscious for a period of time.

McArthur moved to this apartment at some point between 2007 and 2008.

Between 2010 and 2017, he murdered eight men in his bedroom through ligature strangulation.

In July 2017, the Toronto Police Service set up a task force to investigate the disappearances of local men.

Their first solid lead related to a 49-year-old named Andrew Kinsman, who disappeared on June 26th, 2017.

When the police checked Kinsman's calendar, they saw that he had written the name "Bruce" under June 26th.

A security camera near Kinsman's residence showed a man fitting his description getting into a red 2004 Dodge Caravan. Although the driver and license plate weren't visible, and there were thousands of similar models in Toronto, only five vehicles were registered under the name Bruce.

This evidence eventually led the task force to McCarthur, a 66-year-old who owned his own landscaping business.

On January 18th, 2018, a police surveillance team noticed McArthur entering the building with a younger man. By that stage, they had enough evidence to connect him to the murders of Kinsman and another man named Selim Esen.

The surveillance team was under strict orders to arrest McArthur if they saw him with anyone. Consequently, they decided to enter the apartment.

This decision was the correct one, as they found the frightened young man tied to McArthur's bed with a black bag over his head.

Following McArthur's arrest, a police forensic team spent four months combing through his apartment. The walls, furniture, ceilings, and floors were all painstakingly examined.

During the search, investigators found individually labeled folders on his computer, which he had been using to store photographs of his victims, both dead and alive.

In total, they discovered 18,000 images.

McArthur contacted many of his victims through gay dating and fetish websites.

Following the murders, he posed the victims and photographed them wearing fur coats, cigars, and hats.

He then dismembered their remains and buried them in large flowerpots and planters on a client's property.

In January 2019, McArthur pleaded guilty to eight charges of first-degree murder. One month later, he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

He will not be able to apply for parole until he reaches the age of 91.