Hello and welcome to the brief and bingeable true crime podcast, 10-minute murder.

I'm Joe, and thanks for being here.

With a few exceptions, nearly every serial killer has a particular type of target, a certain sex or race, or some other identifiable characteristic that checks all of the boxes on a serial killer's list.

Or often than not, simply being a female makes you more vulnerable to attack. You're targeted more often.

But the killer we're talking about today didn't target women at all. He said, Female makes you more vulnerable to attack. You're targeted more often.

But the killer we're talking about today didn't target women at all.

He set his sights on men.

Gay men.

Canadian gay men.

We're talking about Toronto's deadliest serial killer ever.

Bruce MacArthur.

What makes this particular case unique was that it was a serial killer.

And, you know, it's a dark day in Canada, but a darker day in the city of Toronto when we had to investigate and apprehend a serial killer.

October 8, 1951, Thomas Donald Bruce MacArthur was born in a tiny farm in Argyle near Woodville,

Ontario. Bruce and his sister shared their parents to troubled foster children, often with six to ten at any given time.

In school, Bruce had the reputation of being the teacher's pet. He subscribed to the motto,

if you can't be friends with him, tattle on him. Actually, I just made that motto up, but that's what he

did. McArthur didn't fit in with any of the other boys,

so he'd spend his time figuring out what they were up to, that they shouldn't be up to,

and then telling on them. Three things that he was good at. Being a tattletale, singing contests,

and hiding the fact that he was gay. Despite the latter, when he got to high school, he met and

began dating Janice Campbell. And Janice was a girl, obviously. After graduation, they got married.

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