Toronto police have announced three additional counts of first-degree murder have been laid against Bruce McArthur. McArthur, a 66-year-old landscaper, was initially arrested on Jan. 18 is now facing five counts of first-degree murder.McArthur has previously been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in relation to Andrew Kinsman and Selim Esen, who were the subjects of an ongoing investigation launched in August called Project Prism.Detective Sgt. Hank Idsinga told reporters Monday that McArthur is being charged with three additional counts of first-degree murder in relation to the deaths of Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi and Dean Lisowick.Lisowick was never reported missing to police, and is thought to have been part of Toronto’s shelter system. Investigators believe he was murdered between May 2016 and July 2017. He would’ve been 47-years-old at the time of his death.Mahmudi was 50-years-old when he was reported missing by his family in Scarborough in August 2015.Kayhan was reported missing in October 2012, and was one of the subjects of an investigation entitled Project Houston, which was active between 2010 and 2012. Project Houston probed the disappearances of Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Kayhan, all of whom frequented the Gay Village, and all of whom went missing between 2010 and 2012.Police would not comment on the specifics of the evidence they found that linked McArthur to the three additional victims.So far, police have revealed McArthur had a sexual relationship with Kinsman, though it’s unknown if he had one with Esen. Neither man’s body is reported to have been found.Three victims have links to Toronto’s Gay Village, though two of the victims identified Monday “don’t quite fit the profile” of previous victims, Idsinga said. “It encompasses more than the gay community. It encompasses the City of Toronto.”“We do believe there are more,” Idsinga said. ̶ ...
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