Accused serial killer Bruce McArthur to make court appearance

TORONTO – Accused serial killer Bruce McArthur will be back in a Toronto court today via video link.

The 66-year-old self-employed landscaper was arrested in January and has since been charged him with six counts of first-degree murder.

Police say most of his alleged victims were men who had gone missing from Toronto’s gay village.

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Investigators have said they have found the dismembered remains of six individuals in large planters at a home in the city where McArthur did landscaping work and rented storage space.

Police have identified three sets of remains so far — 49-year-old Arthur Kinsman, 50-year-old Soroush Mahmudi and 40-year-old Skandaraj Navaratnam.

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McArthur is charged with first-degree murder in their deaths, as well as the presumed deaths, of 44-year-old Esen, 58-year-old Majeed Kayhan and Dean Lisowick, who was either 43 or 44.

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