Why did not the continuous murder case shake the Toronto gay community stopped?

byAnton Lindström

Collect more than 1 million participants each yearPride Parade (Gay Parade)Was held,LGBT"A series of murder cases aimed at gay men for several years occurred in the gay community in Toronto known as the advanced area," BBC News reports.

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The gay community at the intersection of Church Street and Wellsley Street in Toronto was known as the city where LGBT gather from the 1960s. In the gay community, for the past few years there was a rumor that "serial killer is doing serial killing targeting the gay community". However, because the victim was not actually confirmed, the police did not move to confirm the truth of the rumor.

In June of 2017, Andrew Kinzman who belonged to the gay community disappeared, and posts requesting Mr. Kinsuman's information spread on Facebook. In response, the police finally confirmed the rumor of "a serial killer aiming for Toronto's gay community". The police founded an investigation team and started investigating whether there were missing persons who really corresponded to victims of serial killers and whether there was a suspicious person corresponding to the perpetrator. However, there has been no progress for several months.

It was in 2018 that the incident moved to settlement. A total of six dead bodies were discovered from the flowerbed at the home of Bruce MacArthur who was in and out of the gay community and also a well-known person. The police arrested MacArthur on January 18 and said he is progressing the interrogation.

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MacArthur suspects have appeared in the gay community since the late 1990s, and he seems to have been a regular in the community bar "ZIPPERS". Mr. Harry, owner of ZIPPERS, told BBC 's interview, "MacArthur has a white beard and a little stomach, everyone was called by the nickname" Santa ". Actually he was working at a local shopping mall, doing Santa's cosplay during the Christmas sale.

In 2003, however, MacArthur was stabbing a man with a metal pipe to cause serious injury, and it was forbidden to enter the gay community, use male prostitution, and use drugs that cause sexual arousal It was not known to people around to be. Mr. MacArthur had met a gay man through a dating site even after being sentenced to suspended execution in the case of 2003. It seems that Mr. Kinzuman, who was the origin of the incident, met through a dating site.

6 bodies have been found from the flower beds, but as of February 18, 2018 MacArthur confessed that it seems that five people were murdered. Among them, the white male was Mr. Kinzman only and the other victims were immigrants from the Middle East and Asia. Also, some of the victims have wives and children in Toronto and others, but they all seem to have hidden that they go to the gay community for their families. Therefore, even though the family submitted a missing notification, the police could not bind the gay community and the missing people. The victim said that there was a prostitute homeless, but he said that he had not been notified of the disappearance.

byToronto Police Service Homicide Squad

Apart from victims MacArthur admitted to killing, there seem to be several missing people in the gay community. Mr. Navaratum, who became the beginning of the rumor of "a serial killer aiming at the gay community", was an immigrant from Sri Lanka and a regular of Zipper's, but disappeared in 2010. Mr. Navaratam's friend said, "He left the puppy in the apartment, but if Mr. Navaratum responsible has disappeared with his own will, the puppy should also take him." I suspect McArthur might have come to hand.

South Asia HIV prevention alliance (ASAAP)Mr. Haran Vijaya Nathan, permanent director of the company, said, "Why the police did not move even if the immigrant people disappeared, but the white male Kinzuman started investigating as soon as the disappearance?" And said that they asked a third party organization for investigation. "If the police were moving at an earlier stage, there was the possibility that we could have reduced the number of victims," ​​says Vijaya Nathan.

byAude Lising

The fact that the relationship between the Toronto Police and the LGBT community is not good is also the background behind the delay in the detection of the continuous murder case in the gay community. In 2016, there is also an incident that arrests dozens of homosexuals gathered in a park known as Toronto police "gay gathers". Also, for the general population around the gay community, the gay community has a separated impression, and there are circumstances that it was not regarded as a familiar event such as not knowing it even if many missing people occurred.

Reasons why the continuous murder of this time has been continued for several years and the suspects have not been arrested for many years include the fact that many of the victims were immigrants, issues such as the relationship between the gay community and the surrounding area / police It seems that it was intricately intertwined.