SEARCH FOR EVIDENCE
Toronto police say they will resume digging at a property where accused serial killer Bruce McArthur worked as a landscaper //
Toronto police say they have resumed digging at a property where accused serial killer Bruce McArthur worked as a landscaper.
Police have already found the remains of seven men buried in planters at the property in midtown Toronto.
McArthur, 66, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of eight men with ties to Toronto’s gay village.
“We originally did a dig at the property over the winter and nothing was found,” police spokesperson Meaghan Gray said.
“Then we decided to go back and revisit all the properties (where McArthur worked) again when the springtime hit and the thaw was done.”
Canine units found “a number of different spots” of interest on the property when they returned in the spring, Gray said.
Police dogs also searched about 100 other properties with links to McArthur’s landscaping business but found nothing, she said.
The excavation began Wednesday and is expected to last multiple weeks, Gray said.
McArthur, currently in custody at a west Toronto jail, is alleged to have killed Selim Esen, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Soroush Mahmudi, Abdulbasir Faizi and Kirushna Kanagaratnam.