TORONTO -- An alleged serial killer accused of preying on men from Toronto's gay village has pleaded guilty to eight counts of first-degree murder.
Bruce McArthur, who had been set to stand trial next year, entered the guilty plea during a hearing in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday.
The 67-year-old self-employed landscaper was arrested in January 2018.
Police eventually charged him with first-degree murder in the deaths of Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Soroush Mahmudi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, and Kirushna Kanagaratnam.
The victims went missing from the gay village between 2010 and 2017.
Police said they recovered the remains of seven men in large planters at a residential property in midtown Toronto where McArthur worked while the remains of an eighth man was found in a nearby ravine.