Murder victim´s wife tells of love story turned wrenching tragedy
(The Star Health)

Soroush Mahmudi once told his wife, Fareena, that if anything ever happened to her, he’d travel the lengths of the country to get answers. When police announced Friday that they’d found Mahmudi’s dismembered remains — a month after charging a man for his murder, and over two years after he vanished — her mind went reeling back to that moment, from the apartment they once shared. The Scarborough home still echoes with memories of 50-year-old Mahmudi, with much left untouched since his August 2015 disappearance. Along with her husband’s remains, police said they also identified the remains of Skandaraj “Skanda� Navaratnam and have laid a new first-degree murder charge against Bruce McArthur, who faces five other first-degree murder charges.Read more:Bruce McArthur charged with sixth murderAnguished family of man missing since 2010 watch news of murders from afarBruce McArthur in 2003 assault case: ‘I’m sorry for all the pain and anger I’ve caused’Fareena Marezook told the Star she used to doll herself up before Mahmudi came home from work. She wanted to look beautiful for him. Since he disappeared, she leaves her face bare. “He, all the time, would talk about this lipstick,� she remembered, her voice soft, gently turning the pages of a photo album she keeps beside her bed. In an image of them together, her lips are painted dark. The album is filled with images of Mahmudi, back to the couple’s earliest days together. “It was a beautiful smile he had. A good heart,� Marezook said. “He loved me too much.� He worked hard, too, she recalled, often waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning. Early one Saturday morning, he woke up before Marezook’s son — who Mahmudi was a stepfather to. Mahmudi left him breakfast before going out the door. He never came home that day. Police now believe that’s when he was killed.But for over two years, he was just m ...