The victims - Clockwise from upper left: Selim Esen, Andrew Kinsman, Majeed Kayhan, Dean Lisowick, Kirushna Kumar Kanagaratnam, Abdulbasir Faizi, Skandaraj Navaratnam, Soroush Mahmudi (Toronto Police/BBC)

In this courtroom sketch from left to right, defense lawyer James Miglin, Justice John McMahon, court registrar, Bruce McArthur, Crown Attorney Michael Cantlon, Detective Hank Idsinga, and friends and family of victims, back right, appear in court in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. (Alexandra Newbould/The Canadian Press via AP)

Karen:

The serial homicides in and around Toronto’s Gay Village

Episode sources:

1. “The Village: Season 1” (CBC)

2. “Murder in the Village: Bruce McArthur and the Mysterious Deaths in the 1970s - The Fifth Estate” (The Fifth Estate/CBC) 2019

3. “Toronto’s gay community shocked in the wake of McArthur investigation revelations” by Victoria Gibson, Fatima Syed, Vjosa Isai (Toronto Star) 2018

4. “Who were McArthur’s Victims? These 8 men as described by friends and family” (CBC News)

5. “Bruce McArthur: How a shopping mall Santa became a notorious serial killer” by Mobeen Azhar (BBC) 2022

6. “Bruce McArthur: Who were Toronto serial killer's victims?” (BBC) 2019

7. “Toronto police went to arrest a man they suspected of murder. They found a man tied to his bed.” by Emanuella Grinberg (CNN) 2019

8. “Bruce McArthur Case” by Edward Butts (Canadian Encyclopedia)

9. “It happened before” by Lisa Mayor, Jen White, and Saman Malik (CBC) 2018

10. “Murder victim’s wife tells of love story turned wrenching tragedy” by Victoria Gibson (The Star) 2018

11. “Toronto police create first-ever missing persons unit in wake of McArthur investigation” by Nicole Brockbank (CBC) 2018

12. “What Happened To The Sites Of The Infamous Toronto Bathhouse Raids?” by Laura Hanrahan (Storeys) 2023

13. “Toronto Gay Village” (Destination Toronto)

14. “What we know about the suspect in the disappearances from Toronto's Gay Village” (CBC) 2018

15. 2010-2017 Toronto serial homicides (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

Con artist Margaret Lydia Burton

Episode sources:

1. Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion, by Tori Telfer

2. “True Crime-Margaret Burton aka Mrs. Gray” (DeKalb History)

3. “42 Dogs, 2 Cars Mark Trail of Woman Theft Suspect” (Associated Press, August 2, 1957)

4. “Mother/Daughter Caught Here in $100,000 Theft after Nationwide Search” by David Wood (The Tulsa World, August 22, 1957)

5. “Mrs. Gray Seized in Tulsa at Job in Doctors’ Office” (by John Clayton, Marion Gaines, and Keeler McCartney The Atlanta Constitution, August 22, 1957) 

6. “Ritzy Woman Keeps a Jump Ahead of the Law (United Press, August 17, 1957)

7. "100,000 Missing at Decatur Clinic; FBI, DeKalb Police Hunt Woman" by Keeler McCartney (The Atlanta Constitution, July 31, 1957)

8. “Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine Named Best of 2,572 Dogs in Westminster Show” by John Rendel (The New York Times, February 10, 1954)

9. “FBI Hunts International Thief and her Daughter” (United Press, August 17, 1957)

Margaret Burton (Mrs Gray) and her daughter Sheila Joy Burton after arrest in Tulsa.

(Newspaper clipping)

Rise and Shine, one of Mrs. Gray’s more than 50 cocker spaniels, wins Best In Show in 1954 at the Westminster Dog Show

(DeKalb History Center)