Missing From The Village, Justin Ling

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Missing from the Village
by Justin Ling
Paperback | May 3, 2022

A searing work of investigative journalism, Missing from the Village examines the murders of eight men from Toronto’s queer community and the systemic failures that allowed a serial killer to operate in plain sight.

Between 2010 and 2017, men began disappearing from Toronto’s Church-Wellesley Village. Despite mounting evidence and growing fear within the community, police repeatedly dismissed the possibility of a serial killer. Investigative journalist Justin Ling followed the case from its earliest days, documenting how missing persons reports were sidelined, investigations were suspended, and community warnings went unheeded. In 2019, landscaper Bruce McArthur was convicted of murdering eight men—but for many, justice came far too late.

Drawing on more than five years of reporting and extensive interviews with victims’ families, community advocates, and law enforcement officials, Ling reconstructs not only the crimes themselves but the broader conditions that made them possible. The book exposes how racism, homophobia, transphobia, and institutional bias shaped policing decisions and left queer lives undervalued and unprotected.

More than a true crime account, Missing from the Village is a powerful indictment of systemic neglect and a memorial to the men whose lives were erased from public concern. It stands as an essential record of accountability, grief, and the urgent need for change in how institutions respond to marginalized communities.

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