The Truth About The First Known Survivor Of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur

"Every muscle in his face was clenched, and he had the look like a Komodo dragon. He just was a reptile. He was full of rage," Henderson said in an interview recounted on CTV News. On Halloween, 2001, during the day, Henderson held the door to his apartment building open for McArthur, whom he believed

"Every muscle in his face was clenched, and he had the look like a Komodo dragon. He just was a reptile. He was full of rage," Henderson said in an interview recounted on CTV News. On Halloween, 2001, during the day, Henderson held the door to his apartment building open for McArthur, whom he believed was merely going down the hall to the building superintendent's office. When Henderson unlocked his front door to enter his apartment, McArthur reamed him on the head with a pipe.

"I remember feeling the indentation in my skull. He had popped my skull in. I have a nursing background and I see cerebral spinal fluid and blood coming down. And I think I'm going to lose consciousness in a matter of seconds. And he was not going to stop." McArthur struck Henderson repeatedly on the head, fracturing hands and fingers in the process, as well. Henderson says that passersby might have overlooked the brawl as just another drunk, Halloween fight.

Directly after the attack, McArthur went to the police and turned himself in. During the subsequent trial, the courts blamed Henderson, likely because he was a sex worker in addition to being a nurse. McArthur was convicted of a "minor assault with no jail time served," and by 2014, before police considered him a suspect in The Village murders, he applied for a pardon. His assault on Mark Henderson was expunged from his criminal record. 

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