MISSING FROM THE VILLAGE

Based on more than five years of in-depth reporting, Missing From the Village delves into the McArthur murders (featured and reported on by publications such as the BBC, Buzzfeed News, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, NPR, and The New Yorker) including the police's failures, Toronto's gay community's response, and the story of the eight men who went missing and the lives they left behind – investigative reporter Justin Ling uncovers the latent homophobia and racism that kept this case unsolved and unseen

In 2013, the Toronto Police Service announced that the disappearances of three men—Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Majeed Kayhan—from Toronto's gay village were, perhaps, linked. On paper, an investigation continued for a year, then remained "open but suspended." By 2015, investigative journalist Justin Ling had put in multiple requests to speak to the investigators on the case. Meanwhile, more men would go missing, and police would continue to deny that there might be a serial killer. Then, on January 18, 2018, Bruce McArthur, a landscaper, would be charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and eventually convicted of eight counts of first-degree murder

For readers of Michelle McNamara's I'll Be Gone in the Dark and the Atlanta Monster podcast, Missing from the Village reveals how policies and laws, written at every level of government, pushed McArthur's victims out of the light and into the shadows