[Murder Cases here are usually filed in the name of the perpetrator, or the lead perpetrator. If the case remains unsolved or with several killers, the case may be filed in the name of the victim]
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McARTHUR, BRUCE: Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur TV - A Killer’s Mistake TV - Catching Killers TV -
Toronto police discovered the remains of six men linked to a suspected serial killer. The lifeless bodies dismembered. Catching a Serial Killer: Bruce McArthur, television news, Sky Crime 2022
Myself and my colleagues, we have done reports for years about missing men in the village and about concerns from the community. ibid. journalist
When Toronto police interviewed Bruce McArthur in 2013 they would have seen an older man, portly guy, he was newly out as a gay man and had just started a landscaping company and he was doing pretty well. ibid.
Bruce McArthur has plead guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder. ibid. television news
Between 2010 and 2017 vulnerable man keep disappearing from Toronto’s gay village. Are they simply leaving of their own accord? The same name keeps crossing detectives’ desks and he makes an unlikely suspect. A Killer’s Mistake s3e3: Bruce McArthur, DiscoveryPlus 2023
2017: The red Dodge caravan is forensically examined and in the back of the van there is blood … Now it becomes evidence of murder. ibid.
When Project Houston officers examined Bruce McArthur’s digital footprint they were left in no doubt they were on the trail of a serial killer. ibid.
We have the exact year, make, model … Catching Killers s2e4: Missing Men: The Toronto Village Killer, rozzer, Netflix 2023
And then I got to Bruce McArthur. ibid.
I got a warrant to get into his apartment while he was at work. ibid.
He had handcuffed a male to his bed and put a blindfold on him. ibid.
The decomposing remains of six people have been recovered … ibid. TV news
MCATASNEY, LIAM & PRESTON TAYLOR: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
The shocking betrayal of 19-year-old Sarah Stern. It took an aspiring horror-movie director and a secret confession caught on camera to solve the mystery of what happened to her. True Crime Recaps: Sarah Stern, Youtube 30.54, 2021
December 3rd 2019: An Uber-driver noticed an Oldsmobile on the side of the Shark river bridge between Belmar and Nepture in New Jersey. When police checked it out the car was empty but the keys were in the ignition. 19-year-old Sarah Stern had vanished. ibid.
Six months before she disappeared Sarah and a guy she’d known since middle school, a boy she thought was her friend by the name of Liam McAtasney, were going through he mom’s things when they stumbled across a shoe box stuffed with cash … It seems that her mother wanted her to have the cash saying the money was her inheritance. ibid.
Liam … and his roommate Preston Taylor … The idea to rob her came about … They decided that Liam would strangle her and take the cash … The best way to cover it up would be to make it look like suicide. ibid.
She never had as much money as they thought she did. ibid.
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When Ezra McCandless showed up at Don Sipple’s door in Spring Brook, Wisconsin, the unsuspecting dairy farmer didn’t know that he was playing a role in a twisted game that had already left 24-year-old Alex Woodworth dead. True Crime Recaps: Ezra McCandless, Youtube 26.53, 2021
Alex was stabbed 16 times in the head, neck and stomach. ibid.
She wanted to play the role of victim but couldn’t quite pull it off. ibid.
MCCLUSKIE, TONY: Countdown to Murder: The Soap Star Killer TV - Mail online - The Eastenders Murders: True Crime, Real Tragedy TV - Crimes that Shook Britain TV - A Killer’s Mistake TV -
Former EastEanders actress Gemma McCluskie was a strong independent woman. But Gemma’s brother was an unstable drug addict jealous of his sister’s success. Countdown to Murder: The Soap Star Killer, Channel 5 2014
That jealously led him to kill his sister, then chop up her body and throw it into a canal. ibid.
The brother of EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie confessed to killing her in a letter to their father – but insisted he was ‘not evil’.
Tony McCluskie, 36, lied that he could not remember battering his sister to death at their east London home, butchering her body and dumping the parts in a nearby canal.
In a letter he sent to his father Anthony from Highdown Prison in Surrey, the murderer wrote that he ‘wouldn’t hurt a fly’ and ‘would do anything for the family’. Mail online article 3rd February 2013, ‘I’m not evil, Dad: Brother who brutally murdered EastEnders actress tells father he’s ‘choked up’ by what he did in disturbing letter sent from jail’
Eastenders: one of Britain’s most popular soaps bizarrely linked to two horrific crimes: two big stars taken too soon. The innocent victims of separate deadly real-life dramas. Who fell victim to the men closest to them. A devoted mother killed in her own home with her children. Their father on the run. A loving sister her body dumped in a canal. Her brother desperately covering his tracks. Sian Blake and Gemma McCluskie … murdered four years apart. The Eastenders Murderers: True Crime, Real Tragedy, Channel 5 2017
Gemma McCluskie was born and bred in London’s East End … Gemma was sharing a flat with her brother Tony; their relationship had long been strained but was now getting worse. ibid.
The chance discovery was made in a canal near Gemma’s home. ibid.
The police already had a prime suspect – Gemma’s brother Tony, the last person to see her alive. ibid.
CCTV footage also shows Tony dragging a suitcase to a car. ibid.