[URBAN NOTE] Five links on the Church-Wellesley serial killer

[rfmcdonald]

• This is appalling news. Two of the names of the people McArthur is charged with murdering aren't names I'd heard mentioned before in connection with disappearances. How many dead are there? CBC reports.


• CBC is entirely justified in asking why, for at least a half-dozen years before this summer, gay men of colour were disappearing without any noticeable police response.


• The sufferings of the friends and family of the victims are foremost in my mind, but I can also imagine how the friends and family of the accused are responding to the news. The Toronto Star interviewed McArthur's sister last week.


• The Globe and Mail was able to determine that McArthur had links to four of the men who disappeared.