249: Part 1: The Serial Killer Nobody Noticed — Until He Did!! 🔥
Game of Crimes
Game of Crimes
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Retired Toronto Police Service Inspector Hank Idsinga shares the inside story of a 19-year career in homicide, culminating in one of Canada's most shocking serial murder investigations. Hank's team cracked the case that shook an entire nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, Bruce MacArthur was a 58-year-old male who killed and dismembered and buried in planters, |
| 0:09.6 | eight men from Toronto's gay village. And his first victim, he killed in 2010. And we conducted |
| 0:18.4 | several phases of investigative work, |
| 0:21.0 | and ultimately in January of 2018, |
| 0:24.2 | we arrested him. |
| 0:25.7 | And on the day that we arrested him, |
| 0:27.4 | he was about to kill his ninth victim. |
| 0:29.1 | So our intervention certainly saved that ninth victim. |
| 0:33.5 | And the day we arrested him, |
| 0:35.2 | we didn't know where any of these victims' remains were. |
| 0:39.3 | And we could only link them to two of the disappearances of the eight. |
| 0:43.3 | So it was a little bit dicey and a little bit stressful for about 96 hours until we started |
| 0:48.2 | finding the remains. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm Steve Murphy, DEA Special Agent Retired and now host of the Game of Crimes podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | If you've seen the Netflix series Narcos, then you know my story. |
| 0:59.6 | I now bring you stories of heroism and bravery from our law enforcement and military heroes |
| 1:04.9 | and occasionally from the criminals that they faced. |
| 1:08.5 | Welcome to Game of Crimes. |
| 1:22.3 | Music criminals that they faced. Welcome to Game of Crimes. Hey, gang, welcome back to this week's edition of Game of Crimes with Burford in the |
| 1:25.9 | morning. You hear that every week, don't you? Well, that's because you guys keep me going. So thank you for continuing to come back to the week's edition of Game of Crimes with Burford in the morning. You hear that every week, don't you? |
| 1:29.5 | Well, that's because you guys keep me going. |
| 1:32.0 | So thank you for continuing to come back to the show every week. |
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