Police found man tied up in alleged killer’s bed

Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur was under police surveillance when officers were forced to make a quick decision to enter his home and arrest him, believing a life could be in danger, police sources confirm to the Toronto Star.

On the morning of January 18, police watching McArthur observed a young man entering the Thorncliffe Park building where there the 66-year-old landscaper rented an apartment. When he walked in the 19th floor unit, they knew they had to intervene, according to a police source with knowledge of the events.

When officers decided they had to take action, they entered McArthur’s apartment and found a young man tied up but unharmed, according to the source.

None of the information about the circumstances of McArthur’s arrest has been officially released by Toronto police.

Inside that same apartment over the weekend — 10 days since the arrest — forensic investigators were still collecting trace evidence, gathering clues at just one of the more than two dozen addresses where McArthur may have left evidence of his alleged crimes.

McArthur, now accused of five counts of first-degree murder allegedly spanning from 2012 to last year, is now the subject of what’s poised to become the most ambitious homicide investigation in the Toronto’s history.

“This will end up being, including in terms of the potential scenes, the largest (investigation) Toronto has undertaken,” said Mark Mendelson, a former Toronto police homicide detective, in an interview Tuesday.

Nearly two weeks after announcing McArthur was charged in the deaths of Selim Esen, 44, and Andrew Kinsman, 49, Toronto police Det. Sgt. Hank Idsinga announced Monday that three more first-degree murder charges had been laid against him.

Investigators now believe that Majeed Kayhan, 58, Dean Lisowick, 47, and Soroush Mahmudi, 50, were killed by McArthur, who was known in Toronto’s Gay Village.

Police have not released any of the causes of death, though Idsinga has previously said they have a pretty good idea of how Kinsman and Esen died.

McArthur is due back in court February 14.