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Updated at 8:22 a.m. ET: Police have confirmed that a human hand and a foot were delivered to separate elementary schools in Vancouver, B.C., just days after body parts were delivered to the headquarters of Canada’s federal Liberal and Conservative parties.
At a news conference Tuesday, Vancouver Deputy Police Chief Warren Lemcke could not say whether the body parts were connected to the killing and dismemberment of Chinese student Jun Lin in Montreal. The suspect in that murder, Luka Magnotta, 29, was arrested Monday at an Internet café in Berlin where he had been reading about himself. He appeared in court behind closed doors at a district court in Germany on Tuesday where he was presented with an arrest warrant, according to NBC News' Andy Eckardt.
Back in Montreal, authorities have discovered several of murder victim Jun Lin’s body parts, although his head, hands and a foot remain missing, according to the Toronto Star. Police there also said that video footage from the killing taken by Magnotta seems to show him eating Lin’s body.
Interpol began searching Thursday for Magnotta, who faces first-degree murder charges in Lin’s death.
Authorities believe that Magnotta flew from Montreal to Paris after posting the grisly murder online, and partied there for days before moving on to Berlin. Witnesses told police that he partied in the Bastille area in east Paris, according to The Associated Press.
Magnotta may be extradited this week, according to the AP.
Grisly murder posted online
Montreal police say Magnotta filmed the Chinese student's murder and posted it on a website specializing in gore. The video shows a man with an ice pick stabbing another naked, bound male. He also dismembers the corpse and performs sexual acts with it in what police called a horrifying video.
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Luka Magnotta, a Canadian porn star accused of murdering and dismembering a Chinese man in Montreal, was arrested in Berlin after partying for several days in Paris.
The warning signs apparently were already there. For nearly two years animal activists had been looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and posted videos of his cruelty online. Since Jun Lin's murder, Montreal police have released a photo from the video which they say is of Magnotta.
Magnotta was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 2005, but the charges were dropped, the lawyer who represented him at the time said.
In a crime scene Montreal police say is the worst they have seen, his Montreal apartment included a bloody mattress and pools of blood on the floor and in the refrigerator. The police said a janitor found a torso with no head or limbs in a suitcase in an alley behind the building.
Toronto lawyer Peter Scully said he represented Magnotta in a fraud case in 2004 and a sexual assault case in 2005.
"I've had lots of creepy characters and Eric did not stand out as one of them," he said. Scully refers to his client by his previous name, Eric Newman.
Deputy Chief Warren Lemcke briefs reporters about human remains delivered to two Vancouver, B.C. schools on Tuesday.
But Nina Arsenault, a Toronto transsexual who said she had a relationship with Magnotta over a decade ago, described him as a drug user with a temper, who sometimes turned his anger on himself, hitting himself on the head, and other parts of his body.
While Magnotta described himself in an online video interview with a site called "Naked News" as a stripper and male escort, Lin was registered as an undergraduate in the engineering department and computer science at Concordia University in Montreal.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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After he ate the Chinese guy, was he hungry again 3 hours later?
Do you really find this funny?
Seriously? :\
Trash.
This deserves a ban, IMO.
do you want frys with that,,,,,,,,,
what a bunch of wussies,censuring a comment,sounds like i have seen this behavior before
It's difficult to even come up with words (that have not already been said) to say how horrific this is. The victim's family will have to find a special strength to get through this ordeal being plastered all over news sites. Very hard to imagine what Lin's family members must be going through.
To those posting stupid remarks and trying to be funny. Put yourselves in the victims place or his families place. Now imagine if you are a brother, sister, mother or father awakening each and every day facing this sadness and pain. Not so funny is it? Try a little compassion. It's good for the soul.
Another 1,
"It's difficult to even come up with words (that have not already been said) to say how horrific this is."
I agree. This is the sort of thing that makes me think that if hell does not really exist, it ought to, just to deal with people like Magnotta. How else can we, as mere humans, do justice in a case like this?
He looks like a butch lesbian.
do you want fries with that
Most horrible of crimes, performed with extreme cruelty, disrespect shown for a violently slain corpse, eating parts of the body and feeding to the dog, mailing body parts to people. This monster needs to be euthanized like the dangerous animal that he is. And there is nothing funny about this. The man who was murdered suffered greatly, was humiliated and desecrated, and has a family that is stunned and grieving. Just sickness all around.
So he partied, for 3 days mind you, with citizens of Paris who chose not to turn him in before he's in Berlin 1 day and is turned in. Shame on you people who chose to party with him.
I really doubt he went around telling everyone what atrocities he just committed.
@SPARTAN-501: With HIS level of narcissism? He feeds off of it and you can't tell me that as media saturated as this whole situation was that everyone of those people was so naive.
When the school asked to give them a hand, I don't think this is what they had in mind.
The US is finally rubbing off on Canada
of course, blame the USA! moron!
If you think about it, this guy created a new type of crime... and a new type of criminal. He isn't a serial killer; he isn't a mass murderer; he is a guy who did something which, you have to admit, is unique. At least, it is unique for now. Let's hope that others like him don't start cropping up to follow his example. But alas, such hopes are probably vain. I wonder what we will name this new breed of sociopath?
I agree with you it is scary to think that this may be a new type of media driven sociopaths. It is also frightening to know that even though they make themselves so visible that it is still hard to catch them, because there is people who wont help bring him but aid them.
Tragically there is absolutely nothing new about people dismembering and tasting their murder victims. The only reason he is not a serial killer yet is an observant person noticed him and turned him in. Eating the face of a still living victim, in broad daylight - now that got people's attention. I shudder to think what will get our attention next year.
It's not new, just rare. To be honest, I'm surprised that he was able to hold down a legal job that involved interacting with people.
This guy is a poster child for what George Carlin called "The cult of self esteem." He believes he's the best at everything he does, he believes he's the best looking guy around, he believes that he has a RIGHT to do what he wants, when he wants, how he wants, and nobody has any right to stop him. He now believes he's "famous" which in his mind is only right, since he's so deserving of everybody's admiration for being perfect.
Children need to learn that in real life you DO NOT get a medal just for showing up, and when you are last in a competition, you have NOT won just because you tried. They need to learn about real life and be taught to read and write and do math so they can learn some self esteem naturally, by finding what it is they're good at and knowing how to think.
Unfortunately, there are many more out there who think like this guy does, they just haven't acted on it (yet).
"You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.” ~ Charles Manson
They're called vivisectionist/ cannibals. Remember "Silence of the Lambs"? Not exactly unique, but definitely off the beaten path.
He is beginning to gnaw on me.
Same here. Ever since I read about it I have felt sick for a week. Having anxiety now too. Its sick. Glad he was caught though..
Let's face it. There are 7 billion people on this planet. Statistically, some really odd things are gonna happen...
do you want frys with that
Fagnotta might have some clinical mental health issues and he might not be mentally balanced.
please the DEATH penalty
This definitely warrants it.
No it doesn't.
Canada eliminated the death penalty in 1976.
Just because it won't be handed out doesn't mean it isn't a good idea in this case.
Ya, how sick does one have to be to party with someone who they know is a psychopath and not turn the guy in? Says a whole lot about the people he hung with. I wonder what they will do for kicks to top this.
Sick, sick, sick, the whole lot.
I really don't think he told anyone what he did.
He was in a different country. What makes you think anyone knew who he was or what he had done?
People like you have a sickness. So quick to blame, so quick to hate, yet so very slow to think.
No one really knows if he is a serial killer or not. Doesn't anyone remember all the severed feet found around Vancouver the past few years? Maybe he was practicing for a while.
He lived in Montreal. That's on the other side of the country. It's possible that he could have mailed a few body parts to Vancouver, but I doubt he was responsible for the feet washing up from the ocean that's on the other side of the continent from where he lives.
I wonder if anyone is trying to connect those dots.
Montreal Police have confirmed they are in contact with police from all over North America as other departments look at this guy for unsolved crimes.
If there is one thing the world does not need, it is animals like this - whether it is a disease, mental state or choice, this needs to be wiped out. If you have a cancer, you don't argue about terminating it - why do we have so much argument about taking a different type of disease out of the world?
Another Saint SICKO! IN The Cathedral of CALLIGULA!
JUST another Dictator of the DEVIL! ONLY on a Smaller SCALE! Get OVER IT!
Could be used for anatomy class.
I don't believe that Canada has the Death Penalty.
I am wondering if there is someone else involved in this too. The story began with more body parts being delivered to schools. Did he send them? Have they been in transit all this time? I think there is another person involved in this case.
That thought is very relevant and certainly worth entertaining, if not just for public awareness.
Where is the head??????
This article is almost entirely about the Magnotti-Lin case. Would it not have been logical for the article to say a bit more about today's headline regarding the Vancouver schools?
Yeah, why did he pick schools in Vancouver when he lived in Montreal, way on the other side of Canada? Does he have some connection to Vancouver? I hope police are checking out if he lived or visited that area when the severed feet case occured. He could be a serial killer whose other victims haven't been found yet. This reminds me of Jeffery Dahmer, remember him? The guy from Milwaukee who ate parts of his victims and kept parts in the freezer. He definately WAS a serial killer. I don't believe in the death penalty and credit Canada for abolishing it, but I hope they have a life without parole for extreme cases like this.
With today's technology, the terrible actions and works of the one can now be shown repeatedly around the world,downloaded,passed around and permanently stored for the disturbed,curious and vulnerable. Who knows how much damage and influence that is having. We know it isn't zero. If we could see the Internet like it had weather,I'd say darkness has descended and theres a storm on the home front.