 He told the Sun : 'He asked if anyone knew I was there. I told him my boyfriend and I kept track of where each other were all of the time and that's when he had a flip out. 'Looking back, I definitely think it was because he didn't want anyone to notice I'd gone missing. I actually think that might be a big reason why I'm still alive today.' Josh earned money as a sex worker in 2012, and went to McArthur's flat after he had responded to his Craigslist ad. He struggled with drug addiction at the time and was tied up and blindfolded, like McArthur's other victims, as part of a sex game. Bruce McArthur Josh was able to pull down his blindfold just as McArthur came from the kitchen, knife in hand, it was then they spoke. But things took a strange turn after Josh seemingly talked his out of being murdered. McArthur instead offered to take him for breakfast, something Josh t){kind=link}
Josh Cleaver was tied up and blindfolded in the kitchen of Santa Clause serial killer Bruce McArthur in Toronto, Canada, but thinks a few crucial words spared him from being killed
One man was just moments away from being butchered by the Santa Claus serial killer and becoming yet another one of his victims.
Josh Cleaver was tied up and blindfolded by Bruce McArthur who had a knife in his hand, but believes a few crucial words meant he survived.
McArthur had already killed eight victims in his apartment in Toronto, and Josh was lucky not to be added to the list.
The murderer targeted mostly gay men on his seven-year killing spree and carved up the bodies and hid them in a friend’s garden where he worked as a landscaper.