The Corpse Collector: The Nightmarish Crimes of Bruce McArthur
Terror Bites: Bite Sized True Crime
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Bruce McArthur was a landscaper, a grandfather, and even a part-time mall Santa. But behind the friendly façade lurked a serial killer who turned Toronto’s flower beds into burial grounds. Between 2010 and 2017, men from the city’s LGBTQ+ community began disappearing without a trace until investigators uncovered a horrifying truth.
McArthur wasn’t just murdering his victims; he was dismembering them and hiding their remains in the gardens of unsuspecting clients.
This episode of Terror Bites unearths the chilling details of McArthur’s double life, the police investigation that nearly missed him, and the shocking discovery that finally ended his reign of terror. How did he evade capture for nearly a decade? And how many more victims might still be out there?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Terabytes, the True Crime Podcast, where the stories are dark, the laughs are twisted, |
| 0:14.7 | and the terror, well, it's real. I'm your host, and this where we dive into the most bizarre, chilling and downright weird |
| 0:24.3 | true crime stories you've never heard. |
| 0:27.1 | Make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss a single second of the madness. |
| 0:34.0 | Today, we're diving into one of the most chilling modern serial killer cases, a story of hidden |
| 0:40.5 | horrors, unsuspecting victims, and a murderer hiding in plain sight, a mall Santa, a friendly |
| 0:49.0 | landscaper, a trusted member of the community, and a cold-blooded killer who buried his victims in planters |
| 0:56.9 | and kept trophies of their remains. |
| 1:00.0 | This is the story of Bruce MacArthur, the Canadian serial killer who turned gardens into graveyards. |
| 1:07.6 | Let's set the scene. |
| 1:09.5 | Toronto, Canada, a place known for hockey, politeness, and apparently a secret human burial |
| 1:17.3 | ground hidden in someone's backyard. |
| 1:20.6 | Bruce MacArthur seemed like the last person you'd suspect of being a serial killer. |
| 1:26.0 | He was a grandfather. He worked as a landscaper. |
| 1:30.3 | And every Christmas, he dressed up as Santa Claus at the local mall. |
| 1:35.3 | Imagine taking your kid to see Santa, snapping a photo, and later realizing he was dismembering |
| 1:42.3 | bodies on his lunch break, chilling, right? |
| 1:46.0 | Between 2010 and 2017, men from Toronto's LGBTQ plus community started disappearing. |
| 1:56.0 | No bodies, no crime scenes, no answers. |
| 2:00.0 | The police thought maybe these men had just moved away. |
| 2:03.6 | Maybe they didn't want to be found. But the truth? They weren't missing. They were in flower |
| 2:11.6 | beds. MacArthur, a seemingly friendly landscaper, was preying on men, luring them in under the guise of casual dating, and then brutally killing them. |
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