In 2014, during a lull in his killing spree, McArthur applied for - and was granted - a pardon. He pleaded guilty, but his conviction was wiped from his criminal record. That attack happened in 2001 and McArthur immediately turned himself in to police. And I think I'm going to lose consciousness in a matter of seconds. I have a nursing background and I see cerebral spinal fluid and blood coming down. “I remember feeling the indentation in my skull. He was full of rage,” Henderson recounted in an interview with W5. “Every muscle in his face was clenched and he had the look like a Komodo dragon. Henderson is still haunted by the memory of the day McArthur beat him with a pipe. The 69-year-old serial killer is serving a life sentence for the murders of eight men, between 20. It’s a story that McArthur tried to hide for years. Since that conversation, we’ve been meeting regularly and I have pored through decades-old court transcripts to unravel Henderson’s extraordinary story of survival, and of guilt, well before men started vanishing from Toronto’s Gay Village. The first known survivor of serial killer Bruce McArthur. Just minutes into that call, I realized this was the Mark Henderson I spent years looking for. He wanted to meet in person but his name didn’t register with me, and so we opted to speak on the phone instead. TORONTO - Last June I received a direct message on Twitter from a man named Mark Henderson. Warning: The details of this story may be graphic to some readers.
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