#180 The Canadian Gacy: Bruce McArthur//Part 1

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Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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A few years ago in 2018, we started getting reports down here in America about a possible serial killer in Toronto, and others about body parts being found in planters. The gruesome details began emerging and we caught the scent of a new serial killer emerging onto the scene. January of 2018, Toronto police finally apprehended the man who had been terrorizing the local gay community for the past 8 years. That man's name is Bruce McArthur. A 69 year old, divorced, landscaper who also worked as a mall santa during the holidays….so, basically Canadian Gacy. *shrug* OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper https://www.tonicvibes.com Code: Creeper EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com SOURCES: https://www.the-sun.com/news/4655198/toronto-village-killer-bruce-mcarthur/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/bruce-mcarthur-what-we-know-1.4509436 https://www.celebsagewiki.com/bruce-mcarthur https://gravereviews.com/2020/12/03/bruce-mcarthur-the-killer-who-targeted-similar-men/ https://www.thestar.com/amp/news/crime/2018/01/29/police-to-update-media-on-bruce-mcarthur-investigation-monday.html?__twitter_impression=true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%932017_Toronto_serial_homicides#cite_note-HunterBanality-6 https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/7sqae0/the_village_disappearances_bruce_mcarthur_a/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys Podcast. I'm Warren.
0:24.9	And I'm Michael.
0:25.9	How's everybody doing? Are you ready for a two-parter heavy hitter serial killer this week?
0:30.7	Yes. We were just rolling. We got some good momentum talking that serial killer last week, right?
0:35.6	So we're like, let's get back to our roots. Let's do another serial killer. Let's ride this wave.
0:39.8	Yeah, we're going to go up to Canada and cover a recent serial killer who kind of broke the mold.
0:47.2	Kind of a throwback, but also in the modern age. I mean, he...
0:51.6	This is a guy you thought you would think by looking through his crimes and everything this would have occurred in the 70s.
0:55.9	But no, just happened a few years ago and also broke the mold with his age when he really started serial killer.
1:01.8	This guy was a late bloomer big time.
1:03.6	Very, very. The average serial killer starts around age 28. This guy was what in his 50s?
1:09.0	Yeah, yeah. But he spent a lot of years living a lie, living in the closet, trying to...
1:16.1	That was the era that he grew up in. We'll get into all that raised by a fanatical, very religious family and being a young gay man and having to hide that and had a show wife and family for a long time.
1:29.8	And then finally, after his divorce, just became who he really wanted to be and started going crazy with it.
1:35.1	Yeah, that's an understatement.
1:37.0	To say the least.
1:37.9	I'm surprised that he... Honestly, as brutal as he was, it's surprising he kept that shit in the box for 50 years. Or, I mean, he probably started feeling urges when most of the serial killers do.
1:48.9	And they're late 20s, early 30s. And somehow, he was able to keep that under wraps as far as we know.
1:53.9	I was gonna say that being said. I mean, there's also the possibility that there's more bodies out there.
1:59.3	Because, you know, with an alibi being a married man and being part of the community, being religious, all that, I mean, he had even a better alibi before. Once he divorced, you know, he's a little more of a sitting duck, but before then.
2:13.3	And he had some pretty good alibi.
2:14.6	This is a guy that was Santa Claus at the mall here.
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