KITCHENER — Waterloo Regional Police are looking into possible links between the case of David MacDermott, a Kitchener man who disappeared in 2002, and alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur.Local investigators are quick to say they have not established a known link, but they need to rule out any potential connection to McArthur, the 66-year-old landscaper accused of killing a number of missing gay men in the Toronto area.“Right now we have no information to suggest a link at this time. But the investigation is continuing,” said Waterloo Regional Police spokesperson Cherri Greeno.Read more: As the murder investigation expands, one man says Bruce McArthur sold him planters. ‘God knows what’s inside’Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur ‘undoubtedly believed he had outsmarted everyone’Opinion | Shree Paradkar: Gay Village disappearances and police behaviour show ‘whose lives are disposable and whose lives are not’McArthur, charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Andrew Kinsmen, Selim Esen, Majeed Kayhan, Soroush Mahmudi and Dean Lisowick, was awaiting a sentence for assault when MacDermott vanished after partying at Club Renaissance in downtown Kitchener in November 2002.MacDermott’s body has never been found, and detectives have said suicide or the idea he simply chose to vanish without ever contacting his family is unlikely. Police initially treated his disappearance as a missing person case, but in 2009 told the family they were considering the case as a possible homicide.This week, local investigators contacted Ontario’s serial predator crime investigations co-ordinator, a specialized OPP unit that co-ordinates multi-jurisdictional investigations where serial criminals are suspected, to inquire about McArthur.That’s the same unit that probed links between the Tim Bosma investigation and two other cases tied to convicted killer Dellen Millard — the disappearance of Laura ...
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