Bruce McArthur was eventually found guilty of murdering eight men in the Toronto area – but the investigation first began as a possible cannibalism case.

It took nearly eight years and two task forces to capture a Toronto serial killer who murdered eight men.

Bruce McArthur was eventually convicted of killing eight men, most of whom had vanished from Toronto neighborhood The Village in the span of a few years.

For years, men were going missing from Toronto's LGBTQ enclave. The culprit turned out to be a genial landscaper who would moonlight as a mall Santa.

Bruce McArthur was a genial landscaper who occasionally worked as a mall Santa. He was also convicted of murdering eight men and hiding several of their bodies in planters.

Toronto serial killer Bruce McArthur preyed on vulnerable men in the city’s LGBTQ-friendly neighborhood, The Village.

Why didn’t police catch Toronto’s deadliest serial killer faster? Racism, some claim, may have played a role.