Alleged serial killer's Toronto landlord says Sabrina Kauldhar was a quiet, model tenant

The landlord of an alleged serial killer, who is charged with murder in the October deaths of three people in southern Ontario, says she was a quiet, responsible tenant whom he never suspected was capable of violence.

Sabrina Kauldhar, 30, was arrested earlier this month and charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder. She is accused of killing three people over three days in three different southern Ontario cities this month.

Kauldhar was living in Toronto at the time, renting a room in the basement of a house near Keele and Dundas streets. Her landlord, Thanh Vo, told CBC News that Kauldhar had rented from him for two years and was a model tenant.

"Very nice person. Very quiet," Vo said in an interview this week. "She didn't talk to people. She paid the rent on time."

Vo says he never saw Kauldhar show any anger or aggression against anyone, even when he occasionally complained she was making too much noise.

"She never get mad with me," he said.

His perception changed on Oct. 1, Vo says, when he went downstairs to check on Kauldhar after she'd failed to respond to multiple phone calls and knocks on her window.

For most of her tenancy, Vo says Kauldhar lived alone. She didn't appear to be employed, Vo says, but she didn't live extravagantly, spending most of her time at home with her two cats, and she never appeared to be short on money.

Vo says she drank and smoked regularly. He would find four to five empty beer cans outside her door most days, he says, but she never appeared intoxicated or aggressive.

He says Kauldhar kept her basement apartment clean, even doing regular repairs and renovations, without ever asking for reimbursement for materials or labour.

During the last few months of her tenancy, Kauldhar took a roommate, Vo says, a 66-year-old woman named Trinh Thi Vu. He says the two occasionally complained to him about each other's behaviour, but they were typical complaints about cleanliness and he never felt there was any hostility between them.

On Oct. 1, Vo says Kauldhar asked him to pick up some drywall for her for one of her projects around the apartment. He says he picked it up, but when he tried to reach her to drop it off, she didn't respond to messages or phone calls.

Early in the afternoon, Vo says two delivery workers knocked on his door, trying to deliver something to Kauldhar. Vo, who lives upstairs from the apartment Kauldhar rented, told them to knock on her window, but she didn't respond and they left.

Vo says that was unusual for the normally house bound tenant, so he went downstairs to check on her. He says he opened the door to her apartment and found Vu lying on the floor with blood coming from her body.